Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet there has been sustained pressure from two political directions to do so . |
| 2 | After years spent under the thumb of finance ministries , an increasing number have been given independence from politicians . |
| 3 | While no deaf person in Britain has been awarded any armed services medal — for the simple reason that no deaf person is permitted to serve in the armed services — or any government sponsored civilian award , or police award , deaf people have been given awards from such bodies as the Carnegie Fund , the Royal Humane Society , and the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 4 | Cuts in oil supply from Russia were jeopardizing Ukraine 's spring sowing , and farmers had been given supplies from the state reserves . |
| 5 | When Salomea tried to find another job , she was turned down because she had been given notice from her previous employment . |
| 6 | To the works of major Nonconformist writers like Isaac Watts , Charles Wesley and James Montgomery have been added hymns from many other traditions . |
| 7 | The newly-formed Town Farm Neighbourhood Watch group has been granted £1,000 from Middlesbrough Council to buy security devices . |
| 8 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |
| 9 | We observed one very tense episode in which some panel members believed that in the act of creation the panel had been granted independence from the coordinating committee . |
| 10 | This process is now being reversed and increasing numbers of new family farmers have been granted land from the collective and state farms . |
| 11 | Following them was Kim Philby , who escaped to Moscow just ahead of MI5 in 1962 , and Anthony Blunt , who finally confessed in 1964 to being a long-time and important Russian spy only after having been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 12 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 13 | Her immediate subordinate , James C. Smith , had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 14 | The departments in question have been informed , in writing , to cease making payments in the above circumstances , and have been offered assistance from the Employee Relations Section during the consultation process . |
| 15 | TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure . |
| 16 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 17 | The initiative has been allocated £150,000 from ESRC funds over the next three years . |
| 18 | On Oct. 7 it was reported that 46,000 foreigners , the majority of them Romanian nationals , had in the previous three days been refused entry from 27 countries for not fulfilling these conditions . |
| 19 | He has been awarded £200 from Middlesbrough council 's community chest to help with his training and travel expenses . |
| 20 | She had not been allowed visits from her family , who lived in the United States , for over two years . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been sent chocolate from my mother . |
| 22 | Realistically , though , you would need to have strong evidence that the existence of such a right is part of your particular deal with your employer , and that you have been denied satisfaction from your work in a clear and unjustifiable fashion , before you could pursue litigation with confidence . |