Example sentences of "had been [verb] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , almost all of this debt had been raised from British creditors . |
| 2 | A staggering £300,000 had been raised from local people and businesses , some of it in the form of covenants . |
| 3 | In each case the siblings concerned had been separated from each other when they were babies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In addition , numbers of Mozambican refugees had been repatriated from neighbouring countries . |
| 6 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |
| 7 | A total of 44,000 Soviet troops plus vehicles and materiel had been withdrawn from eastern Germany between Jan. 1 and May 12 , 1991 ; a further 22,000 service personnel left in June . |
| 8 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 9 | And also er letters that had been sent from head office . |
| 10 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ten Independent Companies , each with 20 officers and 270 men ( see Appendix 2 ) had been formed from Territorial Army volunteers with a leavening of regular and reservist soldiers . |
| 13 | Last month I announced that applications had been invited from 14 units for NHS trust status in April 1993 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A considerable amount of planning and research had gone on , and help had been received from Green Space , a group sponsored by Hampshire County Council . |
| 17 | The skin on her face had been scraped from one cheekbone . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her Majesty has honoured the Works by visiting it on three occasions , the first on 11 March 1948 as Princess Elizabeth , when she toured the Works and inspected the two new saloons that had been converted from two ex-Chairman 's Saloons ( built Wolverton 1942 ) for the personal use of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 22 | The NRA said Weardale had been saved from immediate flooding because rain turned to snow . |
| 23 | The drawing-room was full of rugs that looked upsettingly as if they had been made from earlier Afghans . |
| 24 | Among these well-tended plots , with their laden fruit trees , it was out of place and ill at ease ; as though it had been transplanted from another age or a backward planet . |
| 25 | The jaw tightened till it looked as if it had been carved from golden marble . |
| 26 | The country had been emancipated from thirteen years of middle-level Conservative rule of reasonable efficiency , modest dynamism but small-power idealism . |
| 27 | Of these , 34.5bn had been accumulated from general insurance business ; 73.4bn belonged to long-term funds . |
| 28 | ( This figure in the 1989/90 fiscal year had been revised from initial budget estimates of 4.1 per cent to 1.6 per cent relative to GDP . ) |
| 29 | New energy needs had been met from other sources , as shown in the chart below . |
| 30 | This great neoclassical house had been reprieved from imminent demolition in 1972 by ministers and taken into guardianship two years later . |