Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them are outstanding objects from the Olmec , Aztec and Maya civilisations including a turquoise Aztec mosaic mask in the form of two intertwined rattlesnakes , painted codices from pre-Hispanic times , among them the Codex Zouche , stone architectural fragments from Mayan sites and jades from the Olmec period . |
| 2 | ‘ I was 10 minutes from the title , ’ he said ruefully afterwards . |
| 3 | I was 300 yards from home in a restaurant and had only used my car anyway because it was pouring with rain . |
| 4 | As expected ( UX No 386 ) , Olivetti used its event in Rome last week — see front page — to steal Pyramid Technology Corp 's thunder and introduce a 24-CPU version of the MIPS R3000-based LSX 6500 transaction processing systems which are rebadged MIServers from the Mountain View , California-based company . |
| 5 | But one aspect which is new springs from the advances which have been made in molecular biology . |
| 6 | And I also could not help observing that Gustave 's letter was posted from Pontorson , which is forty kilometres from St Malo . |
| 7 | Waters were also rising in the Norfolk Broads and there were reports of some minor flooding as far inland as Norwich , which is 20 miles from the coast . |
| 8 | But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller 's H-bomb went off . |
| 9 | In 1948 Butlins acquired the Mosney Holiday Centre which was twenty miles from Dublin . |
| 10 | I was very frightened of falling off the edge of the table , which was ten metres from the ground . |
| 11 | This means you are 47 miles from mile 0 . |
| 12 | William Chisholm meets a model student who 's 6,000 miles from home — and physically handicapped |
| 13 | The town itself is 8 miles from Manchester and is convenient for the industrial centres of the Mersey . |
| 14 | Santiago itself is ten kilometres from the airport , and after two solid days of flying it was great to be cycling . |
| 15 | His strong belief that she was withholding things from him did , after all , have some basis in fact . |
| 16 | Mr. Brennan , who was three years from retirement , lived in a council flat in London . |
| 17 | We are twelve miles from the border agreed to in 1925 between the British and the Irish . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're 45 minutes from town , so , after training there 's not a great deal on the agenda . |
| 19 | Sorry I 've kept Martin , but we 're old friends from Manchester . |
| 20 | for safety — we 're 40 miles from a hospital : |
| 21 | The rescue helicopter still had n't arrived when we were fifteen miles from the coast and Warton gave me Blackpool 's frequency and wished me good day ’ . |
| 22 | We were ten minutes from the airport when a jete flew overhead and the pilot said : ‘ Welcome to Alexandria ’ . |
| 23 | And there are other reappearances from the earlier novel . |
| 24 | There are other benefits from employing a toastmaster . |
| 25 | But there are other families from deprived and stressful environments who face difficulties in all areas of their lives and the children 's problems are yet another stress . |
| 26 | Yet if there are two bids from within the company that is to be sold off , a unique pre-judgment would be made by the Scottish Office about the superiority of one bid against another . |
| 27 | ‘ As you see , I spend all my time with my glasses , but apart from me there 's the coastguard who does his patrol every morning , there are two gentlemen from the town who never miss walking out here for their morning constitutional and on Saturdays , there 's the children , off from school … |
| 28 | a ) From : 7.00 pm — and for the first performance when there are two performances from 6.00 pm — GEORGE IV BRIDGE both sides and CHAMBERS STREET both sides . |
| 29 | There are two ways from Ullapool for southbound travellers . |
| 30 | Trial work has shown that on grassland particularly , there are definite benefits from injection . ’ |