Example sentences of "had been [verb] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , almost all of this debt had been raised from British creditors . |
| 2 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 3 | In addition , numbers of Mozambican refugees had been repatriated from neighbouring countries . |
| 4 | According to the Financial Times of July 17 , foreign aid agencies had so far donated US$400,000,000 while an additional US$400,000,000 had been generated from internal sources . |
| 5 | Last month I announced that applications had been invited from 14 units for NHS trust status in April 1993 . |
| 6 | The draft programme was published in the central press for public discussion in October 1985 ; altogether , Gorbachev told the 27th Congress the following February , six million responses had been received from ordinary citizens , raising a whole variety of issues . |
| 7 | Complaints had been received from local residents that their wash-houses were being abused , and he expected that by the end of his beat at 6 a.m. he would be busy enough . |
| 8 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 9 | All of that would have been well known to the Ephesians , who had been converted from false gods who had no glory , to be followers of the one true God whose glory had been demonstrated in the splendour , the brightness and the beauty of the Saviour . |
| 10 | The drawing-room was full of rugs that looked upsettingly as if they had been made from earlier Afghans . |
| 11 | The country had been emancipated from thirteen years of middle-level Conservative rule of reasonable efficiency , modest dynamism but small-power idealism . |
| 12 | New energy needs had been met from other sources , as shown in the chart below . |
| 13 | The local deposits of tin and copper had been extracted from prehistoric times , the people of the Bronze Age having discovered how to make an alloy of the two metals that could be shaped into knives and tools far superior to the flint axes and other stone tools and weapons they had used hitherto . |
| 14 | Of 15 ministers dropped from the previous Cabinet , 13 had failed to win seats in the February 1989 elections in which the NRC had been expanded from 98 members to 278 [ see p. 36455 ] . |
| 15 | Projectile weapons had been known from Roman times , but much of the technology was redeveloped during the crusades . |
| 16 | For centuries small amounts of coal had been mined from shallow pits . |
| 17 | A government spokesman said that elephant losses in the country had been reduced from annual losses of 4,000 to 55 . |
| 18 | Moreover , when Lully 's operas were revived in the 18th century , after the orchestral string body had been reduced from five parts-to four , the quinte part was , once again , simply omitted . |
| 19 | The Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge ( UK ) announced on Aug. 31 that measurements taken on UK nuclear submarines travelling below the Greenland ice cap revealed that the thickness of the ice had been reduced from 6-7 metres in 1976 to 4-5 metres in 1987 . |
| 20 | They alleged widescale vote rigging and claimed that the names of opposition supporters had been excluded from electoral lists . |
| 21 | Balbinder , who had been excluded from all deliberations about his future , had not seen his new school yet . |
| 22 | By this time , too , the citizens of Rome had been excluded from papal elections ; they had formed an important pressure group in the past . |
| 23 | The figure included almost 1,000,000 overseas federal workers , including military personnel and their dependents , who had been excluded from previous censuses . |
| 24 | The book of poetry had been produced from real trees and the pages had a feel of genuine paper . |
| 25 | None of these patients , however , had been discharged from neonatal units on oxygen treatment . |
| 26 | Halifax and Frizingley had been invaded from all directions , the streets sprouting Chartist placards like weeds from every chink in the cobbles , demanding what John-William himself had once demanded . |
| 27 | Diplomats based in Haiti estimated that since October as much as US$14,000,000 had been stolen from public funds . |
| 28 | According to information issued by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in May 1991 , over 345,000 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) had been reported from 162 countries and territories as of April 1991 . |
| 29 | Those most coveted by the early civilizations of Egypt and Sumer , notably lapis lazuli , had been drawn from remote sources since Predynastic times . |
| 30 | The population had been drawn from many countries with as many as 20 different nationalities in a school . |