Example sentences of "[noun] were from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Approximately half the force were from the Commonwealth — Aussies , Canadians , New Zealanders , South Africans , Rhodesians and even from as far afield as Hong Kong , Fiji and the West Indies , this all made for healthy competition . |
| 2 | The thrill of seeing Araminta in bathing dress , even in the distance , segregated as the gentlemen were from the ladies , made his heart race . |
| 3 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |
| 4 | The largest proportion were from the West Indies , Malaysia and Mauritius . |
| 5 | It meant also that ITV companies were from the start a kind of conglomerate — by definition . |
| 6 | The main office entrance and the entrance to the Foreign Secretary 's residence were from the court . |
| 7 | In 1957 , 74 out of the top 100 firms were from the United States ; in 1972 the figure was 53 . |
| 8 | This reflects the consensus in reports on economic evaluation and , as all the source studies were from the United Kingdom , the discount rate recommended by the Treasury . |
| 9 | Disappointing as the terms were from the peasant point of view ‘ for the Imperial government to grasp the nettle of Emancipation at all was a remarkable departure . |
| 10 | Researcher Dr Anne Johnson said these people were from the group with the highest risk of contracting Aids . |
| 11 | Cinema admissions had indeed increased as people sought escape at the movies from the horrors of war , and the flow of French and Italian imports had been disrupted , but the screen-time made available had been almost totally absorbed by American pictures : by 1918 some 80 per cent or films shown in Britain were from the US . |
| 12 | All but one of the 14 Cabinet members were from the HZDS ( including Ludovit Cernak , elected as a member of the Slovak National Party , who joined the HZDS after the election ) . |
| 13 | When the Committee was subsequently formed , eight of its fourteen members were from the Association . |
| 14 | Lewes contends that , whereas these gynaecophobic tendencies were from the start challenged by women analysts , the same could not occur in relation to the homophobia of the discipline since homosexuals were systematically excluded from it , with the result that ‘ the psychoanalytic discourse on homosexuality has been and still is formulated by non-homosexuals about homosexuals ’ ( The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality , 21 , 237 — 8 ) . |
| 15 | In fact , although the Gaels were dispersed over many lands and made a great contribution in relation to their numbers , the mass of Scottish emigrants were from the lowlands , including Ayrshire . |
| 16 | Standing side by side the men in suits were from the union , the men in overalls from the management . |
| 17 | Written by John Kaufman , performer and writer were from the Nez Perce Tribe . |
| 18 | More than 80 per cent of deputies were from the Azerbaijan CP , while the opposition deputies from the Popular Front , the Social Democrats , the Greens and the Union of the Democratic Intelligentsia united in parliament in an umbrella Democratic Bloc of Azerbaijan . |
| 19 | Table II , however , shows that most excluded cases were from the no surgery group . |
| 20 | For this purpose Marx and Engels had to show just how different primitive societies were from the type of society their readers knew . |
| 21 | Those medals were from the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 22 | The other children were from the south , all older than me and posher . |
| 23 | The grandfather clock and Welsh dresser were from the antiques stall she once had in London 's Portabello Road market . |
| 24 | Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine . |
| 25 | All the soldiers were from the Battlebury Barracks in Wiltshire . |
| 26 | The new courts and departments established under the Tudors were from the beginning staffed by laymen : there was no question of clerical officials being appointed to the Courts of Wards or Augmentations . |
| 27 | All the others were from the sect hierarchy 's lesser rank of Disciples . |
| 28 | Four specimens were from the jejunum and 11 from terminal ileum or ascending colon . |
| 29 | A total of 75% of the households moving into new owner-occupied dwellings were from the County of Tyne and Wear and the greater part of these were from the Newcastle and North Tyneside MDC areas . |
| 30 | Nearly all its remaining MPs were from the coalfields and it looked once more like the Labour Representation Committee of the pre-war period . |