Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrested and interned by the Germans , Adair was eventually moved from Bayonne to Fresne . |
| 2 | Panic was effectively removed from office on Dec. 29 , when both houses of the federal parliament passed a vote of no confidence tabled by the Radical Party . |
| 3 | Indeed , coastal trading may be the only explanation for the peculiar distributions of some species , e.g. Exotheca abyssinica ( Gramineae ) in tropical East Africa and Vietnam and may account for that of Stylosanthes humilis ( ‘ S. sundaica' , Leguminosae ) , which was perhaps taken from Brazil to Malesia by the Portuguese . |
| 4 | His first , 11 weeks after the crash took place on December 20 when he was gently transferred from hospital by ambulance , strapped to a stretcher . |
| 5 | Griffin O'Neal , 27 , was only saved from jail after 24-year-old Lynn Oddo , the woman he beat up , pleaded with the court for mercy . |
| 6 | The most famous of all the southern constellations was only separated from Centaurus in 1679 . |
| 7 | On the contrary , it was recognized that the system was divinely appointed from beginning to end . |
| 8 | Under this system of economic production , even though a merchant class was able to find a niche for itself by providing loans and commodities for kings , princes and noble landowners , this class was largely excluded from control over the state , which was dominated by increasingly absolutist kings and their royal entourage of lords and nobles . |
| 9 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 10 | Orlando Azcué Rodríguez ( AI Prisoners Letter Writing Campaign June/July 1991 ) was conditionally released from prison in Cuba on 19 July 1991 after serving only 16 months of his three-year sentence for ‘ enemy propaganda . ’ |
| 11 | At the beginning of Mary 's reign Sir Ralph Sadler was not saved from ejection from the office of Master of the Great Wardrobe ; yet his life tenure did preserve him as Keeper of the Hanaper in Chancery from 1535 until 1587 . |
| 12 | In upholding Peck 's committal order , Judge White said Mancroft was not protected from arrest under Parliamentary privilege or as a peer of the realm in a situation where the courts were exercising their punitive disciplinary powers . |
| 13 | He said clarification was still needed from Government on the UK regulations covering trading and transfer of quota . |
| 14 | My father was still forced from time to time to act as an interpreter , but from now on he spent much more time at home , rather than meeting his friends in the cafés for a game of cards . |
| 15 | Although the old post above Dili was still used from time to time , this port was no longer important as transports off-loaded Japanese air force and other supplies at Bancau stretching the areas to be watched by several hundred square miles . |
| 16 | The 1970s saw a brief vogue of denying the referentiality of language , when the jargon of la nouvelle critique was earnestly borrowed from Paris by advanced spirits , and novels for a time were called texts and denied social significance . |
| 17 | Mr. Read was one of the young men Baxter sent to Cambridge University , and was later ejected from Whitley in 1662 . |
| 18 | Mr. Read was one of the young men Baxter sent to Cambridge University , and was later ejected from Whitley in 1662 . |
| 19 | And during the famous siege of Masada , which did not end until A.D. 73 , the garrison of the citadel was commanded by a man named Eleazar , who was also descended from Judas of Galilee . |
| 20 | The life of this normally gentle giant of a man was also punctuated from time to time by acts of sudden , often inexplicable , violence , usually associated with an over-generous intake of alcohol . |
| 21 | Former Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Arthit Kamlang-Ek was also released from detention on March 9 and he too left Thailand for a " holiday " , on March 16 . |
| 22 | The deficit in the Personal Motor account was substantially reduced from $20.0m to $3.4m reflecting higher premium levels and lower claims frequency on a better quality portfolio . |
| 23 | The mill was originally converted from fulling to corn and then to silk in 1747 . |
| 24 | Otto 's house was now concealed from view behind groves of sombre cypresses . |
| 25 | Thus when it was discovered that Jock Houston had a criminal record he was immediately moved from London to Manchester , and replaced in Shoreditch by Charles Wegg Prosser , a law student with an impeccable background . |
| 26 | Whatever the truth of the affair , the consequence was that Pierre Nizan was immediately transferred from Perigueux to Choisy-Baches in the suburbs of Paris , a demotion which signalled a halt to his professional career and a moment of crisis in his personal and family life . |
| 27 | It is interesting to note that shortly after this study , the top rate of tax on earned income in the UK was indeed reduced from 83% to 60%.4 |
| 28 | Jo 's hair was towel dried and put into sections , the mixture was then applied from roots to ends whilst it was still warm . |
| 29 | By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe . |
| 30 | Some of it was undoubtedly derived from associations with British India , where graveyards abounded in miniature pagodas and obelisks . |