Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [adj] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | By closing down Polish educational institutions ( notably the university at Vil'na and the lycée at Krzemieniec ) , by suppressing the Uniate Church ( in 1839 ) , by abolishing Magdeburg Law in Kiev ( in 1835 ) and the Lithuanian Statute throughout the region ( in 1840 ) , by promoting the publication of history books which argued that the western provinces had been Russian from time immemorial , by depriving many Poles of noble status , by promoting the interests of their Ukrainian and Belorussian serfs , and by insisting that local administration be conducted in Russian , he sought to make clear what he meant by allowing " Nationality " , narodnost' , to be attached to " Orthodoxy " and " Autocracy " in the celebrated circular of 1833 . |
| 2 | I took refuge , therefore , in my customary routines sketching a few brief memoranda for Monday morning , removing the paper clips strewn about my otherwise tidy desk , checking that the main office windows were all shut , even although the Security staff would be along later , and that was strictly speaking their job , and that all the typewriters had been unplugged from the wall sockets . |
| 3 | The work had been far from her thoughts all evening . |
| 4 | It may be that other disaffected Anglian elements also gave assistance and it would be surprising if no help had been forthcoming from the men of Powys , who can not have been unaffected by Aethelfrith 's victory at Chester and the recent warfare between the northern Angles and the king of Gwynedd . |
| 5 | At Vladimir , Holly had been different from these men . |
| 6 | The visitors from Guatemala and from the Windward Islands had been helpful from LAC point of view creating a better gender balance in the programme . |
| 7 | His grandfather had been a British general in the Indian Army but Robert had been fatherless from the age of seven when his father was attacked by a gang of hooligans in Fleet Street , London , and died shortly afterwards . |
| 8 | Martha had been far from well for some time and was in need of another operation . |
| 9 | Ever since Tug opened his eyes and saw Doyle in front of the door , things had been different from the other mornings . |
| 10 | While the Romans are described as being tributary , it seems that the lands which had originally been granted to free-born Franks had been exempt from tax , and that the Franks subsequently assumed that any lands which they came to hold were similarly exempt . |
| 11 | Local villagers had been suspicious from the start , Why would a young woman , devoted to her children , walk out on a five-year-old boy and a mere baby ? |
| 12 | Commentators suggested that Hezbollah had been immune from the disarming process because of its close connections with the Iranian government , which itself had close , but increasingly tense , relations with Syria . |
| 13 | Most of the UDC leaders had been unimpressed from the outset . |
| 14 | In a survey last year of farmers where poor chemical control was experienced , most of the 33 fields sampled were free from resistant strains . |
| 15 | The two surveys indicated that 33% ( June ) and 30% ( November ) of pupils had been absent from school at least once in the survey . |
| 16 | Our findings showed that about one in three pupils had been absent from school at least once during the survey weeks . |
| 17 | The project had been wrong-footed from the outset . |
| 18 | From the raggedness of the flesh at the wrist , it appeared that the hand had been hewn from its arm with a knife or axe that was very blunt . |
| 19 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 20 | Quite the opposite had been evident from his tone of voice . |
| 21 | That look had been far from cold , and her insides had melted . |
| 22 | Hire purchase , credit sale and conditional sale advertising had to give a comprehensive picture of costs ( if it mentioned any financial terms ) , and any interest rate it quoted had to approximate to a true annual rate of interest , but the formula used was different from the one in the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 23 | Mary-Claude 's pregnancy had been troublesome from the start , even without the stress of a month 's separation and having to cope by herself with the move back from Cyprus , and Coleman was exhausted from a gruelling month of detailed debriefings by a stream of DIA officers and analysts at an assortment of Ramada Inns in the Baltimore/Washington area . |
| 24 | Bronwen explained that her son had been difficult from day one , crying most of the day and night , demanding constant attention . |