Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 2 | They are parted from their parents on hatching and raised without an anemone . |
| 3 | It 's so persuasively and convincingly argued — especially for those of us most happy to be convinced — that it 's a trifle dampening to be reminded that these are ‘ image patterns whose sexual significance may have been hidden from the poet on a conscious level … . |
| 4 | For Piaget , this indicates that the infant still thinks in terms of ‘ making ’ or ‘ materialising ’ objects through action , rather than ‘ discovering ’ objects which have simply been hidden from view . |
| 5 | There were , there are : they have simply been hidden from history . |
| 6 | All the broken down buildings have gone , existing businesses have been hidden from 125mph prying eyes and replaced with pleasant trees and shrubs . |
| 7 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 8 | Having been dismissed from parade , the children race downstairs to where the Rangers ' 22 horses and Ponies are housed in splendour . |
| 9 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 10 | The humiliating financial dependence on his parents , a fact of life ever since he had been dismissed from Goupil 's , was being gradually shifted on to Theo , who would soon find himself shouldering the whole burden . |
| 11 | By the fortunes of politics , it has been dismissed from the scene . |
| 12 | A prison officer who had been dismissed from the prison service appealed against his dismissal to the Civil Service Appeal Board , which held that his dismissal was unfair . |
| 13 | Er , in so far that my father had been dismissed from the er from the coal mining industry , er before just before nineteen twenty six , and he was officially unemployed . |
| 14 | Cognitive behaviour is not reducible to simple sequences of contingencies of reinforcement but instead reflects goal-seeking activities , hypothesis making and many other features which had hitherto been dismissed from consideration within the Anglo-American tradition in psychology . |
| 15 | Just over a year after he had been dismissed from Oscott ( 1888 ) , Rolfe entered Scots College , Rome , in December 1889 . |
| 16 | If accountability had been enhanced , profligate councillors would have been dismissed from office and replaced by more prudent ones . |
| 17 | Shildon , he explained , had been dismissed from the Detroit paper towards the end of a long and exhaustive investigation which , if the results had been published , could have had serious repercussions for MacQuillan 's political associates . |
| 18 | Workers say that at least one employee has been dismissed from his job without compensation because of illness caused by pollution from the smelter which also processes arsenic , cadmium and lead — well known to have adverse effects . |
| 19 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |
| 20 | Both had been dismissed from the Army for involvement in a previous attempt in May 1988 . |
| 21 | Seineldin , leader of an unsuccessful military coup against the previous government of President Raúl Alfonsín in December 1988 [ see p. 36394 ] , had been dismissed from the Army in October 1989 [ see p. 36972 ) . |
| 22 | President Özal 's brother Korkut Özal , himself a prominent pro-Islamist , had publicly criticized Semra Özal 's move into politics , while the President 's cousin , Husnu Dogan , had been dismissed from his post as Minister of Defence in February , reportedly after voicing similar criticisms [ see p. 38022 ] . |
| 23 | In August Wojtowicz had been dismissed from his post and five people , including senior officials of state banks , had been arrested ; following the Art-B scandal the Sejm approved laws to tighten the central bank 's powers of supervision . |
| 24 | Ingraham , a former protegé of Pindling , had been dismissed from the PLP and the Cabinet in 1984 because he had recommended the dismissal of officials who were publicly linked to drugs trafficking [ see pp. 33401-02 ] . |
| 25 | Like Rey and others , he had been dismissed from the Paris Conservatoire in 1802 after various disagreements . |
| 26 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 27 | The problems have also been examined from the vantage of the archivist . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 29 | Aid trucks have been stopped from reaching Muslim areas there for a month by the Bosnian Croats who control the roads ; 1.3m people have been cut off from aid . |
| 30 | Certainly , he had been stopped from minting his own coins . |