Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from the [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Two boys who were rescued from the fighting in Lebanon are back tonight at the hospital that rebuilt their bodies and gave them hope for the future .
2 They were expelled from the TUC in 1988 for the former .
3 The electricians were expelled from the TUC in 1988 and a positive vote from the new union would lead to a reunification of the British trade union movement .
4 When the Jesuits were expelled from the city in September 1773 public resentment was so real that the entire garrison had to occupy key points and patrol the streets to maintain order .
5 The other seat in 1987 comprised the Speaker ; those at dissolution comprised the Speaker , three Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means and two former Labour MPs who were expelled from the party in December 1991 and who were sitting as independents .
6 The reassertion of the state/civil society opposition is documented by the fact that all of the above names either quit or were excluded from the Akademie in 1933 .
7 Jews were excluded from the department in which Vichy was located .
8 The horse buses were banned from the Promenade in the same year to avoid competition with the trams , which had been taken over by the Corporation in 1892 .
9 Coracles using nets were banned from the Wye in the twenties .
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