Example sentences of "removed from their [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Since French troops had been removed from their positions on the Somme to bolster their imperilled comrades at Verdun , this offensive was to be undertaken largely by British troops .
2 Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever .
3 Often as not fry have to be removed from their parents for any number of reasons and if a bare tank is used in which to grow them on , it is not always possible to have a suitable filter on hand to use in an emergency .
4 Those who had read his mimeographed books and articles , however , were among those who were removed from their posts in the aftermath of the encyclical .
5 His fifteen- and eleven-year-old sons were removed from their home in the raid .
6 Thus , ‘ academics , writers , painters and musicians of minimal renown inherit the right — even the duty — to participate in politics , to give opinions on subjects far removed from their areas of talent , to sit in judgement on the regime , even to denounce the system ’ ( Riding : 1986 , p. 427 ) .
7 In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's .
8 ‘ In my judgment the interests of the children are now to be taken into account and to be considered in relation to all the circumstances of the case including in relation to the general desirability that children wrongfully removed from their place of habitual residence should be returned .
9 ‘ In my judgment the interests of the children are now to be taken into account and to be considered in relation to all the circumstances of the case including in relation to the general desirability that children wrongfully removed from their place of habitual residence should be returned .
10 In June 1987 , local newspapers in Cleveland published accounts by parents who complained that their children had been removed from their care by the local authority on the basis of disputed diagnoses of sexual abuse by two local paediatricians .
11 Without a doubt the most effective missiles in this matter of improvised ammunition had been the heads of his electro-metal figures , removed from their bodies with the help of Turtons ' indispensable file .
12 But Birmingham secretary Alan Jones said : ‘ We have been instructed by the receiver to call an EGM with the resolution that the Kumar brothers be removed from their office as directors . ’
13 The first is security : the doors should have a key-operated lockable handle , ideally shooting bolts into the top and bottom of the door frame , and should incorporate anti-lift devices so the doors can not be removed from their tracks from the outside .
14 That was the morning when the police and social workers came to take their children away ; the morning when seven other children were also removed from their homes in what many people saw as ‘ revenge ’ on the part of the local authority .
15 This view was evidently shared by other bodies involved in the case , and one particular representative of the RSSPCC , Raymond Starr , when asked if they were really sure of their ground and that the children had had to be removed from their homes in the devastating dawn raid , had replied : ‘ Oh yes .
16 ‘ The result of this decision will be more applications for care orders and more children removed from their homes in order to protect them , ’ he said .
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