Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word ‘ petřín ’ comes from the medieval Latin for ‘ stone ’ , and it was from this land that much of Prague derived its building materials . |
| 2 | Platzer again was responsible for the statuary and it was from the Platzer workshop too , in the mid-18C , that the Jesuit saints flanking the nave came . |
| 3 | The newt at Aughton is the emblem of Robert Aske , and it was from here that Aske set out in 1536 to lead the Pilgrimage of Grace against the religious reforms of Henry VIII . |
| 4 | That eruption also involved the growth of a lava dome in the Etang Sec , and it was from this dome that the great spine of Mt Pelee was forced up . |
| 5 | Alton were pinned to their own line at the beginning , but steadily their forwards began to get the upper hand and it was from a good pack break that full-back Carl Knight joined the line to score . |
| 6 | By the early 1960s only two small herds of perhaps a dozen pedigree animals remained and it was from these that the society , revived yet again in 1982 and with the help of various organisations including the Rare Breeds Survival Trust , formed a new herdbook in 1983 in an attempt to save the breed from extinction . |
| 7 | Long years later , he ended up in a workhouse and it was from that vantage point that he ‘ launched his attack upon the world of letters . ’ |
| 8 | Nick Collins was born at Chopwell in County Durham but came south to find coalmining work in the small Kent coalfield and began playing football for the attractively named Canterbury Waverley , and it was from there that the Palace signed him , in spite of opposition from Arsenal , in late August 1934 . |
| 9 | Johnny was an old-fashioned inside-forward ( the position in which he had won a League championship medal with Chelsea in 1955 ) , but he gradually moved , via wing-half , to full-back and it was from there that he skippered Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , taking us out of Division 4 in 1960–61 . |
| 10 | Certainly he played extremely well in that position after Peter Wall was injured for most of 1972–73 and in the first half of 1973–74 , and it was from that position that he captained the Palace side . |
| 11 | King William appointed John Dalrymple as his representative and adviser in Scotland with the post of Secretary for Scotland and it was from that position of power that he influenced the machinations that led to the massacre in Glencoe . |
| 12 | The Chansons de Geste of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries centred in the court of Charlemagne ; and it was from France that this type of heroic epic spread to Germany . |
| 13 | One of the benefactors for whose soul prayers were offered was William Knight , formerly Bishop of Bath and Wells , and it was from his goods entrusted to John Dakyn for disposal that the almshouse received its foundation . |
| 14 | They were settled there as early as 1899 , and it was from that address that the only one of their children to marry — Henry James — set off on his wedding day , 8 September 1902 . |
| 15 | Scotland tomorrow face Italy , and it was from there that he was the subject of offers . |
| 16 | In the audience was Paul Palmer , a geophysicist , and it was from this that Jones became involved with solid state fusion and set out on the road that led to his interactions with Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 17 | The Ipswich forwards were out-scrummaged by the solid Stortford pack and it was from a push-over try after 20 minutes of the second half that Stortford scored their next points . |
| 18 | For the purpose of this operation 22 Squadron moved to Thorney Island and it was from there that the attack was launched . |
| 19 | On the contrary , virtually all our suggestions were very much in the mainstream of contemporary biblical scholarship , and it was from precisely this scholarship that much of our research derived . |
| 20 | And it was from their number that the most prominent socialist leaders of 1917 were drawn . |
| 21 | And it was from the beginning the case in a more general Marxist tradition , which has been especially active and , it should be stressed , diverse in recent years . |
| 22 | Twenty paces or so beyond the shed the road twisted out of sight , and it was from that direction the smell of burning was being carried by the breeze . |
| 23 | Ivan founded a monastery at Cetinje , and it was from the monks who lived there that the orthodox bishops were chosen . |
| 24 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 25 | This was called in East Anglia jading a horse ; and it was from this practice more than any other that the horsemen sometimes earned the name of horse-witches because they were able to make the horse stand as though it were paralysed or bewitched . |
| 26 | The situation for them was a total one : and it was from this totality — the ritual killing of the frog , the dismembering and the unusual behaviour of the bone in the running stream — that they gained their conviction . |
| 27 | In 1890 her father moved to the parish of Kirkby Lonsdale and it was from his vicarage in this small town that Margaret , with the help of her lifelong friend Lilian Harris ( died 1950 ) , ran the Guild until 1908 . |
| 28 | By his early twenties he was in business as a printer and publisher at 29 Essex Street , Strand ; and it was from that address that Crockford 's Clerical Directory was first published in 1858 . |
| 29 | The way in which glacial processes were studied was by investigations in areas including Iceland , Baffin Island , Antarctica , Alaska , Scandinavia , and the European Alps and it was from such research that the understanding and interpretation of past glacial systems was enhanced , as in Scotland by Sissons ( 1967 ) . |
| 30 | The entry of Britain into the Common Market in 1973 had given us access to a 10% repayment scheme of the Consolidated Fund , allowed under EEC rules , and it was from this source that the money would come for the expansion of the Customs fleet . |