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

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1 Last night 400 bikers were drifting away from Pier Head to other ports after being told extra boats would be chartered from alternative ports today .
2 A contestant may withdraw , or be withdrawn from a competition through injury .
3 Cash can be withdrawn from the usual Midland Bank , NatWest , and TSB machines .
4 When Sotheby 's told the owner that both pieces would have to be withdrawn from sale , he decided to withdraw his collection .
5 Under the title Strategic Force for the 1990s and beyond , and drawn up by army chief of staff General Carl Vuono , the plan calls for an entire army corps to be withdrawn from Europe , and for the US Army to be cut from 764,000 men to 630,000 .
6 In Britain , two months earlier , the government had decided in a last-minute about-turn that its nuclear power stations , once the shining lamps that would light the way to the sustainably developed future , were unsaleable and so would be withdrawn from privatization of the electricity industry .
7 After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 .
8 His first step was to request that all copies of the European Vehicle and Components ’ Plan be withdrawn from circulation .
9 Therefore , because it is unlikely that there will ever be revised editions , and because I should just hate to see my name on anything that could not be relied on , the probability is that the books will progressively be withdrawn from publication after a currency of a few years . ’
10 We are demanding that British , US , and other foreign troops be withdrawn from the Gulf immediately and that a peaceful solution be sought to the crisis .
11 They recommended that grants for land improvement and drainage should be withdrawn from Section 43 areas and that all capital grant schemes in the LFA should be modified to encourage a wide range of conservation measures .
12 A separate problem , examined in the following pages , is how to decide which titles should be withdrawn from any one section of the stock .
13 New evidence of ozone layer thinning in the Northern Hemisphere has spurred governments to tighten still further their timetables for CFCs to be withdrawn from industrial use .
14 At present , the Australian stations are served by three ageing chartered supply vessels — one of which is to be withdrawn from service in 1987/88 .
15 In fact , for every new warhead introduced with cruise missiles , a warhead will be withdrawn from NATO 's existing inventory on top of the withdrawal of 1000 warheads that the
16 I know of no authority for the proposition that an ordinary crime committed in the House of Commons would be withdrawn from the ordinary course of criminal justice .
17 It says that life-support equipment could be withdrawn from some terminally-ill people .
18 To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders .
19 Some French troops had to be withdrawn from Brittany to pursue and harry Gaunt 's forces , but the diversion of the expedition from its original destination served to embitter relations between Duke John and Gaunt , which were in any case strained after a quarrel between them over the wages due to their troops , and the English garrisons at Brest , Bécherel ( a fortress some twenty miles south of St Malo ) , and Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte were still hard pressed by du Guesclin 's forces .
20 Patients deteriorating to the point when renal dialysis is considered should be withdrawn from the transplant list .
21 American and Russian armed forces would have to be withdrawn from Korea as soon as possible and within three months of a Korean government being formed .
22 Russian troops were to be withdrawn from Manchuria .
23 Mothers of young children were to be withdrawn from the labour market to be supported by allowances from the state and by their more fully employed husbands .
24 In this statement to the House of Commons Hurd stated that ‘ in the public interest ’ funding should be withdrawn from community organisations who might ‘ directly or indirectly improve the standing or further the aims of a paramilitary organisation ’ .
25 Editor , — Albert Figueras and colleagues suggest that gangliosides can be withdrawn from the market because their efficacy is not clearly delineated .
26 Dexter 's strictures , about the need to make progress soon , because otherwise they would be withdrawn from the case , fizzed in her mind .
27 Dr John Maunder , director of the Medical Entomology Centre ( MEC ) at the University of Cambridge , believes that Quellada shampoo is an obsolete treatment anyway , and that it should also be withdrawn from chemists .
28 When it met officials from the Department of Trade and Industry last year to urge that areas of the seabed close to the coastline and islands of Wales be withdrawn from the licensing round it was only partially successful .
29 The Government 's official scientific advisers , the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , has recommended that many of the blocks currently being offered to oil companies should be withdrawn from the licensing round .
30 He further announced on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that 2,750 military and civilian personnel ( including their dependants ) would be withdrawn from a number of bases in the United Kingdom and elsewhere ( for other announcements of US defence expenditure cuts and for European concerns about reduced US miliary commitment to Europe see p. 37226 ) .
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