Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 2 | Most of the coconut palms had been cleared from the twenty-acre site , and the dense vegetation had been cut back to deepen the crescent-shaped beach where the six low-level Mediterranean accommodation blocks were to be built , each housing twenty rooms , varying in size and design but all with huge covered terraces overhanging the beach with uninterrupted sea views . |
| 3 | Cricket had been separated from the real world , taken away from daily life . ’ |
| 4 | By the 14th century there was a mill in the vicinity , then called Slaughter Mill , and by the 18th century , this had been separated from the manorial estate . |
| 5 | Eight observers had been withdrawn from the western town of Dembi-Dolo , reportedly due to the threatening behaviour of OLF fighters . |
| 6 | But more often the allocation of billets reflected social relations and deferential attitudes in rural society , as when , according to one MP , at Inverary in Scotland 150 women and children were housed in a cold hall , with bedding of dirty mattresses and sacks of straw ‘ with a broad arrow on them , that had been obtained from the local jail ’ , while near by the Duke of Argyll 's castle was left uninhabited . |
| 7 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 8 | Glass-fibre quilt insulation was laid between them and , following the application of roofing felt , new timber roofing battens were fixed to accept the sound slates which had been salvaged from the original construction . |
| 9 | Most of the latter ( except Stopes 's five clinics ) affiliated with the Family Planning Association which had been formed from the National Birth Control Association in 1939 . |
| 10 | The regular freighter from Denmark had docked and along the quayside barges were moored , filled with coconuts and spices which had been transshipped from the large Oriental freighters at the Royal group of docks downriver . |
| 11 | Hut 6 dealt with the recording of intercepts of German army and air force Enigma , and the decoding of them after the key of the day had been determined from the brilliant deductions of the code-breakers . |
| 12 | It shows that the total cost was to be 11650 and that a Grant of £300 had been received from a private Debt Extinction Fund subscribed by a few individuals to assist poor congregations . |
| 13 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 14 | He said interesting and constructive submissions on franchising had been received from the private sector and these were being examined closely . |
| 15 | In the case of Algeria and Israel it strongly advised the EC Commission to delay disbursement of funds until firm guarantees on respect for human rights had been received from the respective governments . |
| 16 | Correspondence had been received from the green machine and the secretary was asked to write for more information because we were n't convinced with exactly what they were doing . |
| 17 | Nigel Mansell had been disqualified from the Portuguese Grand Prix and his hopes of the championship dashed . |
| 18 | I refer to your invoice dated 16/4/91 informing me that £10.58 had been debited from the above account for ‘ Audit Certificate Fee ’ . |
| 19 | All of a sudden they realised they had been tricked from the very beginning . |
| 20 | Boxes and boxes of very expensive camera equipment and food supplies had been unloaded from a large helicopter in quiet astonishment by the Norwegian crew before they had abandoned us in a flurry of gravel . |
| 21 | He had been moved from the Royal Alexandria Hospital , Paisley , to the private Alexandra Nursing Home almost a year earlier having suffered brain damage after a stabbing incident . |
| 22 | During his visit he presented a formal protest that the former East German leader Erich Honecker , 78 , and his wife Margot Honecker had been transferred from a Soviet military hospital outside Berlin to Moscow " for medical reasons " . |
| 23 | The celebrity was a monosyllabic professional footballer who had been transferred from a Scottish club to a fashionable one in London . |
| 24 | He also pointed out that under item 25 Appointment of Auditors , a quotation at a much lower figure had been accepted from a new firm of Auditors . |
| 25 | Most of the production capacity had been inherited from the nationalized Iraq Petroleum Company ( IPC ) group of companies . |
| 26 | Such developments gradually overcame the popular fear of water in general and of the ocean and drowning in particular which had been inherited from the Middle Ages . |
| 27 | Two post reference numbers had been inherited from the manual system , neither of which proved suitable for reference to individual records on the data base . |
| 28 | By 1973 a plan had been created from a basic structure set up with the aid of a ‘ systems management specialist ’ . |
| 29 | I heard on the television yesterday that thirty-five people had been sacked from the interior ministry so that may be an encouraging sign . |
| 30 | Maguire had been acquitted by a Dublin court in February 1990 and Harte had been extradited from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in 1988 . |