Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Palestinians were forced to remain within the occupied territories so that the majority were effectively barred from their jobs in Israel . |
| 2 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 3 | But because the law as an ass , overs were arbitrarily taken from their batsmen and games which should have gone their way were lost . |
| 4 | A SUFFOLK farmer trying to recover a hoard of Romano-British bronzes , which he claims were illicitly excavated from his land , has been told that the Office of Arts and Libraries can not help him , writes Geraldine Norman . |
| 5 | And yet , people were gradually torn from their moorings , grew used to lives in which they saw things their fathers had never done and even they had hardly expected to do . |
| 6 | She had looked like a spectre ; all the fight and vitality were gradually sucked from her . |
| 7 | The Bettiscombe skull , preserved in the house at that time , was said to be that of a negro slave , so devoted to John Frederick that it emitted the most ghastly screams if it were ever parted from him . |
| 8 | Then they were both knocked from their feet , as were many others , by the sudden impact . |
| 9 | Savings were also intended from what has been described as other productivity improvements . |
| 10 | That was the morning when the police and social workers came to take their children away ; the morning when seven other children were also removed from their homes in what many people saw as ‘ revenge ’ on the part of the local authority . |
| 11 | The ideas for all previous attempts were mainly taken from my library of magazine cuttings and books collected on this fish . |
| 12 | Like tonight , faced with the ordeal of going to a grand dinner party with people who all knew each other and were far removed from her experience , she had acquitted herself proudly and well . |
| 13 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
| 14 | The Kingman Committee included traditionalists of an older generation such as Peter Levi , Professor of Poetry at Oxford , and Patrick Kavanagh , a poet whose conservative views were well known from his regular column in the Spectator . |
| 15 | AU heraldic insignia were shamingly torn from his coat , signifying that he was unfitted to be a knight . |
| 16 | The deadline for their acceptance of this Act was Bartholomew 's Day , August 24th 1662 , when 2,000 of the most godly pastors in the land refused to subscribe and were consequently ejected from their ministries . |
| 17 | These were then collected from their blood and purified . |
| 18 | Maggie felt the need to say something and , in any case , the words were almost torn from her . |
| 19 | Other supporters of Hun Sen 's liberalization drive , including Khieu Kanharith , editor of the weekly magazine Kampuchea , were subsequently dismissed from their posts and replaced with supporters of Chea Sim . |
| 20 | The eight were subsequently suspended from their duties and forbidden to leave the southern city of Sucre , the legal capital . |
| 21 | Lewes contends that , whereas these gynaecophobic tendencies were from the start challenged by women analysts , the same could not occur in relation to the homophobia of the discipline since homosexuals were systematically excluded from it , with the result that ‘ the psychoanalytic discourse on homosexuality has been and still is formulated by non-homosexuals about homosexuals ’ ( The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality , 21 , 237 — 8 ) . |
| 22 | A cantankerous sojourn in Aberdeen ended when he was forcibly evicted from his lodgings . |
| 23 | The discredited Balliol was eventually released from his comfortable English captivity after an appeal from the Pope , and passed the rest of his days on his ancestral estate at Bailleul in France . |
| 24 | ( ii ) Infants — when the age of majority was reduced from 21 to 18 years for most purposes , qualification for sitting in the House of Commons was expressly excluded from its ambit ( Family Law Reform Act 1969 , s.1(4). s.2 , para.2 ) . |
| 25 | The ground would either be that he was expressly absolved from his duty , or the wider ground of Elliott 's , that further treatment was useless . |
| 26 | All of the Proconsul species appear to share a form of arboreal quadrupedalism that was little changed from their catarrhine ancestors . |
| 27 | The eroded top of the Upper Cretaceous was covered by thick Tertiary ( Eocene ) basalts , and the Chalk was thereby metamorphosed from its usual porous form into non-porous crypto-crystalline limestone . |
| 28 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 29 | On one hand this angry commentary about what these women protesters had done to outrage all the people involved in Miss World , and on the other hand , my dad sort of crashed out in a chair because he was so exhausted from his work . |
| 30 | Then followed a story about the ineptitude of a young policeman in handling a domestic dispute , who was only rescued from his incompetence by a wise reserve man . |