Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] from [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was from Maj Johann Christie DSO . |
| 2 | This was from Miss Belle . |
| 3 | On the playing front out of 88 selected for the divisional team 57 were from state schools and 37 from independent schools , with 16 out of the 23 finally selected from the state system . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most remarkable inch loss of all was from Mollie Slack , one of my early volunteers from Radio Nottingham . |
| 5 | Triton X-100 was from Serva Feinbiochemica GmbH and Co , Heidelberg , Germany , while the bovine serum albumin was from Fluka Chemie , Buchs , Switzerland . |
| 6 | The lectures in 1871 were from E. J. Reed ( chief constructor of the navy ) on 10 February , on the stability of ironclads following the loss of HMS Captain ; then on 3 March Captain Noble , FRS , late of the Royal Artillery , reported on experiments on the power of gunpowder , some of them carried out with William Armstrong , the armaments manufacturer ; and on 12 May Colonel Drummond Jervois of the Royal Engineers spoke on the defence policy of Great Britain . |
| 7 | Two were from World War Two , but one — surrendered to a Salford police station — was a modern East European device which could have been lethal . |
| 8 | Of this , comparatively little was from Walter Machin himself , and some of these Greg had already seen in the Sunday paper articles . |
| 9 | Before this year , Carlie had only received one chance of a retainer and that was from Nicky Henderson back in 1989 . |