Example sentences of "were [vb pp] from [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |
| 2 | The 38 captured guerrillas were extradited from Laos in January 1990 . |
| 3 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 4 | Except in Catalonia , the lower ranges of the legal profession were despised — in the Basque Provinces lawyers were debarred from participation in the local assemblies . |
| 5 | Then the children were evacuated from London in fear of air raids and that made life difficult for many Sunday schools , since the London children wanted to show the local children how tough they were . |
| 6 | Hong Kong island was ceded to the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ; the Kowloon Peninsula was acquired by the convention of Peking ( Beijing ) in 1860 ; the New Territories were leased from China in 1898 for a period of 99 years . |
| 7 | Hong Kong island was ceded to the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ; the Kowloon Peninsula was acquired by the convention of Peking in 1860 ; the New Territories were leased from China in 1898 for a period of 99 years . |
| 8 | Plants were grown from seed in a 38-m long chamber in a ventilated glasshouse . |
| 9 | Loans were secured from collections in North America , Europe and the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States , of paintings , sculptures and tapestries dating from the ninth century to the present day . |
| 10 | These and similar articles on women 's and other pages were syndicated from agencies in Britain . |
| 11 | The Mass of Thanksgiving was celebrated by Father McCarten with Father Austin Roddy and Father Gerard Corcoran , ( who were ordained from Ushaw in the same year ) together with priests from the Lancaster Diocese . |
| 12 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 13 | POLICE have issued a warning after lethal drugs were stolen from premises in Red House , Sunderland . |
| 14 | Radio cassettes were stolen from cars in Larchfield Street , Eastmount Road and Barnes Road , among other places . |
| 15 | Customs officials have discovered that the onions were driven from Valencia in Spain to Dover and from there to Gateshead , before being driven south , first to Birmingham , then Evesham and discovery . |
| 16 | Kadet sympathizers were swept from office in the zemstvo elections of 1906 , and even the more moderate Octobrist party , dedicated to cautious co-operation with the government on the basis of the Fundamental Laws , found growing difficulty in resisting the rightward shift of rank-and-file noblemen . |
| 17 | Others were taken from yards in Kitchener Street and Wales Street and garages in Woodland Road , Cleveland Terrace , Meadowfield Road and Ravensdale Road . |
| 18 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 19 | It is uncertain whether these small shorthorns were simply the result of a gradual diminution in size of the earlier British cattle , possibly from a combination of selection and lack of nutrition , or were imported from Europe in the Bronze Age . |
| 20 | Other lesser interests and associations continued to exist but they were excluded from influence in crucial areas of public policy and were left out in the political cold . |
| 21 | Following the Restoration he was considered sufficiently dangerous and obnoxious to be listed as one of the twenty non-regicides whose property was to be forfeit and who were excluded from office in perpetuity . |
| 22 | However , in July 1906 , together with Nos. 36–45 , they were removed from service in Croydon , taken and dumped on the site in Aurelia Road , off Mitcham Road . |
| 23 | LIBERALDemocrat candidate Ian Cameron asked the police to intervene after a number of boards promoting his campaign were removed from land in the outlying village of Elwick . |
| 24 | All but one of the ex-PUWP ministers were removed from office in July 1990 . |
| 25 | Sporting the football club 's logo , they were dispatched from Sialkot in northern Pakistan . |
| 26 | By the 1780s Bath and Bristol as well as London were the receivers , via Exeter , of the 500 vanloads a year which were sent from Brixham in Devon . |
| 27 | The bulk of the Prussian peasants were released from service in the years 1811–50 . |
| 28 | Col. Thaabe Letsie and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , who had been arrested on Feb. 19 , 1990 , and expelled from the Military Council and dismissed from the Army , were released from detention in Maseru in early March . |
| 29 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 30 | An ex-director and an employee of D M de Bruijn , the suppliers of lead-contaminated cow feed , were released from custody in Holland yesterday after a witness withdrew testimony . |