Example sentences of "[pers pn] is from " in BNC.
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| 1 | → Ibanez made Blazers between 1980–82 at the Fuji factory in Japan and the serial number would indicate that yours is from ‘ 82 . |
| 2 | If it is n't dated , how can you tell if yours is from the golden period ? |
| 3 | ‘ Margaret Thatcher shows that she is from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy : ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
| 4 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 5 | But how very far she is from the truth , Ruth thought . |
| 6 | She is from Derry , Northern Ireland , but has lived in New York state ever since she entered . |
| 7 | She is from a good family ( by Le Bavard ) and has plenty of speed , but needs it soft . |
| 8 | She is from a noble family . |
| 9 | She is called Bernadette and she is from Newcastle . |
| 10 | Los Angeles remains governable , the next mayor , whatever ethnic or interest group he or she is from will find acceptance as he had . |
| 11 | And then we have a member from Wales on the Central Council of the World Council of Churches , Miss Carole who er , although she is from Wales , member of the church of Wales she now lives in Belfast . |
| 12 | All I 'm giving you is from the radio and the PA tape . |
| 13 | He sweated coldly , shut his eyes , and forced the words to come : ‘ It is from the elevated mind of France that the folly of titles has fallen . |
| 14 | Viewed from one angle , a current account deficit is merely the necessary counterpart of a capital account surplus , and it is from this point that Nigel Lawson 's defensive intellectual outworks run . |
| 15 | The movement became a tradition which is only now degenerating to a faction , and it is from that tradition Dr Runcie springs . |
| 16 | The floodgates were now open and it is from here that the reverse sequence of On the Look-Out commences . |
| 17 | It is from these villages and their ski areas that the most impressive mountain scenery is to be seen . |
| 18 | It is from South Africa that Marjorie Pearson , No 8833346 , writes to complain that there is never any mention of WAAF dental or medical orderlies . |
| 19 | It is from an avowedly philosophical perspective that Roger Scruton announces ‘ the major structural feature of perversion ’ to be ‘ the habit of finding a sexual release that avoids or abolishes the other , obliterating his embodiment with the obscene perception of his body ’ ; as such , believes Scruton , it is narcissistic and often solipsistic ( Sexual Desire , 289,343 ) . |
| 20 | It is from just these categories that notions of sensibility traditionally take their meaning . |
| 21 | It is from these uncertain interstices that there emerge Fanon 's challenges to Enlightenment ‘ Man ’ , and indeed to the very idea of an essential human subject ; Bhabha finds in Fanon a powerful and subversive sense of identity as involving a split , precarious , contradictory relation to the Other , the upshot of which is a radical ambivalence , destructive but also potentially empowering . |
| 22 | Human existence , for Marx and Engels , occurs in terms of people 's concepts , which are incorporated in their mode of life and their subjective experience , but it is from man 's interaction with nature and from the history of this interaction that these ideas , beliefs , and values are created in the first place . |
| 23 | Distant though it is from the Gulf , the Maghreb has been deeply affected by the war . |
| 24 | It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’ |
| 25 | We know just how exorbitant it is from references elsewhere in the Old Testament . |
| 26 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 27 | It is from his home , set in ½ acre garden , that Harry has presented over 50 programmes of his popular TVS gardening programme That 's Gardening . |
| 28 | In the same way we can also define short periods of currency life ; it is from the composition of hoards that we know , for example , that neither of the two principal coinages of late twelfth- and thirteenth-century England , the Short Cross coinage of 1180–1247 and the Long Cross coinage of 1247–79 , survived in circulation after their production had stopped . |
| 29 | It is from that kind of what the Germans call fingerspitzen Gefühl — just from the smell of it — that I had a pretty good idea that North was spending a lot of his time on Central American things . |
| 30 | It is from this period that the first two political bonds of the mid sixteenth century come . |