Example sentences of "had [prep] [be] [vb pp] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not come near Lucie , Izzie or Gabriel , and had to be kept from starving with little presents of food left furtively on their threshold . |
| 2 | The committee pointed out that no great increase in costs would be incurred , because at that time , each vacancy had to be filled from nursing institutes ( agencies ) at a cost of 2½ guineas a week . |
| 3 | Policewomen sometimes had to be called from other duties in order to deal with an incident which male colleagues felt incapable of handling . |
| 4 | The cost of filling BBC2 's hours , one must remember , had to be met from increased licence fees ( controlled by the government ) , marginal economies and earnings from co-productions and sales abroad , and increasingly from the larger fee charged for a colour licence . |
| 5 | Further , 25% of tutors ' fees were not grant-aided and thus had to be met from other sources principally donations , subscriptions and through appeals to branches , with some assistance from the National WEA when its own difficult financial position allowed , usually about £50 a year . |
| 6 | And in the middle of this came the kidnapping of four students , who had to be ransomed from Zairean rebels across the lake . |
| 7 | The reefs and all the Other marine biota , had to be constructed from different organic building blocks . |
| 8 | Due to its dismantling at Barry and other locations , several components had gone missing and these needed movement and others had to be manufactured from new . |
| 9 | Ricardou contested the ‘ referential illusion ’ that the text could refer to anything other than itself : the myths of expression and representation , propounded by the ( historically superannuated ) literary movements of Romanticism and realism , had to be excised from self-reflexive modernist practice . |
| 10 | The policeman was so badly burned he had to be identified from dental records . |