Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mathematical techniques for doing this were invented fairly recently , and , unlike most of those we have so far mentioned , were developed from scratch to solve a particular archaeological problem . |
| 2 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 3 | By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over . |
| 4 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 5 | The Motive Power depot at Derby Road had been disused since 1966 when the last steam locomotives were withdrawn from service . |
| 6 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |
| 7 | In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez . |
| 8 | Here was a long-established bastion of English liberty , older than the vote , yet older people were banished from participation . |
| 9 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 10 | Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country . |
| 11 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 12 | Oral reports were received from LAB 's representatives on other committees and , in particular , LAB noted continuing discussion concerning how best to assist those members in developing countries . |
| 13 | Instead of berths , patients were received from hospital ships in hanging cots . |
| 14 | Over 1500 teeth were examined from pellet samples of adult birds from South Africa , Kenya and England , and none were found to be either digested or broken . |
| 15 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 16 | Both chamberlain and clerk accepted it without question when they were dismissed from attendance . |
| 17 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 18 | Except in Catalonia , the lower ranges of the legal profession were despised — in the Basque Provinces lawyers were debarred from participation in the local assemblies . |
| 19 | The ‘ Vyborg Manifesto ’ elicited little response and those who took part were debarred from election to the next Duma . |
| 20 | In two rounds of voting on July 16 , first-round candidates were debarred from standing . |
| 21 | In two rounds of voting on July 16 , first-round candidates were debarred from standing . |
| 22 | During a time of harsh military discipline , when drum-head courts , public floggings and hangings were carried out to ‘ encourage the rest ’ , the 93rd were excused from attendance at show-piece parades ; because not a single member of their regiment was ever punished . |
| 23 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 24 | Police released a list of survivors : Henry Wyllie , 20 , Helen Lawrie , 48 , and Paula Gaunt , 28 , were discharged from hospital after treatment ; Dawn Howbridge , 19 , and Martin Baptie , 19 , were said to be satisfactory in hospital . |
| 25 | Eleven of 14 patients with normal or nearly normal renal function and three of five with moderate renal dysfunction ( mean urea concentration 27.2 mmol/l ; mean creatinine concentration 210 µmol/ l ) who were discharged from hospital after transplantation remained alive in the long term . |
| 26 | Of the original cohort of 33 , six of 14 patients with moderate hepatic dysfunction were discharged from hospital after transplantation , and four remained alive and well at long term follow up ( three also had moderate renal dysfunction ) . |
| 27 | Fourteen of 19 patients with normal or mildly abnormal hepatic function were discharged from hospital after successful transplantation , 10 being alive at long term follow up . |
| 28 | Of the six patients who underwent intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation and were discharged from hospital after transplantation two are alive , the four others having died at 10 weeks , 31 , 42 , and 61 months . |
| 29 | The remaining 119 ( 84% ) patients were discharged from hospital after treatment . |
| 30 | His mother 's claims come just a few days before the publication of a report into the case of seven mental patients , who died after they were discharged from hospital . |