Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [been] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase . |
| 2 | Either the power plant of the lifeboat had been rigged to explode , or else the area of the landing site had been fired on from space . |
| 3 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 4 | The company 's database of reactions contains information on over 500,000 compounds , and the expertise to operate many of these on a commercial scale had been built up from several decades of process development by Kodak , Eastman and Sterling . |
| 5 | Joe , a 61-year-old housing supervisor , of Portland House , Longlands , said when he arrived at the loft yesterday morning the outer door had been nailed up from the outside . |
| 6 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 7 | The word had been handed down from the so-called serial killer , Alan Yentob , the newly-appointed BBC1 controller . |
| 8 | Mr Evans said that capital spending had been cut back from original plans to offset the squeeze on profitability . |
| 9 | For what would you have done this time last year if a lass had been held back from you like this ? |
| 10 | The apse is widely believed to represent the peak of Gothic architecture in Italy and was completed at a time when many of the architects working on the project had been brought in from Germany . |
| 11 | The hut seemed to be as he had last seen it except that the settee had been pulled out from the wall to the centre of the room . |
| 12 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 13 | Now , what in fact had been watered down from your original keenness in the late sixties in terms of what actually emerged in that White Paper ? |
| 14 | The fleet had been built up from 1898 , matching the rise in passenger traffic , and was specially suited to the inter-urban nature of the line with its infrequent stops . |
| 15 | Even though the overall union target had been cut back from £4.7 million to £2 million , only four unions came in on target : NALGO with £250,000 ; the National Union of Seamen and Fire Brigades Union with £50,000 each ; the fourth was the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers , led by the vociferously right-wing Gavin Laird . |