Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 2 | As built by Franklin the outer stumps were so slanted away from the middle that the balls were only precariously balanced . |
| 3 | Who were the country gentlemen who were so put out from pursuing their time-honoured pastime ? |
| 4 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 5 | While the Commissioners were not drawn exclusively from within the Prison Service , by convention three key posts were reserved for people who had been promoted from prison governor grades . |
| 6 | These meanings , they insisted , were not derived directly from social formations ; the ‘ relative autonomy ’ of cultural practices ( a concept appropriated from the neo-Marxist theory of Louis Althusser ) prohibited any such simple translation from film image to social reality . |
| 7 | We conclude that rocks of the Cordillera Blanca were not derived directly from the mantle or slab . |
| 8 | Malynes ' description of 17th century English shipping practices makes clear that bills of lading were not issued separately from charter parties . |
| 9 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 10 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 11 | We were just thrown out from one day to the next . |
| 12 | Some further details of the poem were clearly borrowed directly from West Somerset : the harbour from which the mariner set sail can only be the little harbour at Watchet , the hermit 's woodland home the wood at Culbone , and the ‘ loud bassoon ’ , whose sound caused the wedding-guest to beat his breast , probably had its original in the bassoon which the vicar of Stowey had just provided for the Stowey church band . |
| 13 | Sabah , aged 28 , and his brother , ‘ Abd al-Karim , aged 21 , were both taken away from their home in al-Fahahil on 7 March by seven or eight men in masks and civilian clothes and one in military uniform . |
| 14 | The two most populous countries in the world , China and India , in the low-income economies group , were also separated out from the rest of this group for averaging purposes ; as were oil exporters and oil importers in the middle-income economies group . |
| 15 | Other places were also hit savagely from time to time , but it is often difficult to tell from the registers which particular disease was responsible for an unusually high number of deaths . |
| 16 | The airway epithelium , type II pneumocytes , and vascular endothelium of ET-1-stained sections were also graded semiquantitatively from 0 to 4 , with grade 0 representing no staining , grade 1 focal staining , and grades 2 , 3 , and 4 diffuse weak , moderate , and strong staining , respectively . |
| 17 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
| 18 | In previous years many overseas publishers were probably put off from coming to London by the fact that not all the major players in British publishing were represented at the fair . |
| 19 | Paupers were often taken back from the workhouse to their own parishes for burial . |
| 20 | My letters were now addressed not from the Middle East Forces , but from the British North African Forces and , moreover , headed 137/166 Newfoundland Regiment , R.A. This quite confused me for I had never heard of Canadians in North Africa — even though I knew that Newfoundland was not really Canada . |
| 21 | Furious staff claim they were even called in from holidays to be grilled by a specialist security firm at the MetroCentre in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |
| 22 | By the nineteenth century , middle- and upper-class women were increasingly cut off from the world of production , while some working-class women regained a limited role in production outside the home . |
| 23 | A French couple found coupling in a London museum recently were simply sent away from the fascinated onlookers . |
| 24 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 25 | Furthermore , while economic historians might assess in retrospect the effects of excise on levels of consumption , or by implication on the level of savings , customs duties in their own time were never seen solely from the point of view of the revenue but always as an important instrument of economic regulation . |
| 26 | On the other hand , new men were occasionally brought in from outside . |