Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.

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1 With al-Kassar 's blessing , he met the Magharians in Bern and Zurich to set up accounts for his family , each meeting taped and monitored by Coleman 's assistant Syrian George , who had been flown in from Cyprus for this purpose .
2 French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali .
3 Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia .
4 Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia .
5 But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin .
6 Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece .
7 Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist .
8 The Malone Masters will span four days , two of them Pro-Am days , and has been pencilled in from Thursday to Sunday , August 12–15 .
9 After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure .
10 It is not clear whether these were part of the advance column who had been marched back from Bleiburg or some of the vast majority of the Croats who had never entered Austria at all .
11 They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt .
12 The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks .
13 Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level .
14 At Esgair Moel Woollen Mill all the processes of woollen manufacture are carried out from fleece to flannel
15 MOTORISTS are advised to avoid Bayswater Road , Wallasey , where it passes over the access slip road to Leasowe Road , while road works are carried out from today .
16 Until that moment Evelyn had not realized exactly what had taken place when she had been let down from over the machine .
17 All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction .
18 Once they have been picked out from an account as recognized as distinct by the participating informants , other material can be sorted into categories with respect to them .
19 This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax
20 Such concentrations of population are frequently regarded as a burden on food supplies , and as a factor likely to worsen the balance of payments as consumer goods and food are sucked in from abroad , either openly or clandestinely .
21 He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act .
22 I am driving over from Merseyside , so if the lad from Warrington is reading this , perhaps he 'd like to cadge a lift .
23 I learned that the rivers of the area are frozen up from January to April when the temperature sinks to minus 10°F , although the summer temperature while we were in Irkutsk was a ‘ sweltering ’ 65°F !
24 They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process .
25 Less than 10 per cent of the housing stock in rural England and Wales consisted of council houses , despite all the attempts at pump-priming which had been carried out from Whitehall .
26 The few studies that have been undertaken have been carried out from a management perspective in terms of stock management or to quantity overall use of library , materials apart from items recorded in circulation statistics .
27 Dividends are nudged up from 13.7p to 14.3p , with the final of 9.62p payable on June 1 .
28 Fei Yen had been looking up from beneath her lashes , her pose the very image of demure , obedient womanhood .
29 If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last .
30 Now , what in fact had been watered down from your original keenness in the late sixties in terms of what actually emerged in that White Paper ?
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