Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | More popular — because they were cheaper — than the Joshua Marshall type of resurrection monument were those produced from the yard of John and Matthias Christmas . |
| 2 | Also , this was where the most opposition was likely to come from , from Jim Cavalier . |
| 3 | Guinness stout was first imported from Liverpool in the late 1880s and by the early 1960s had become so popular that Guinness decided to brew in the country . |
| 4 | Brief Truce was unable to benefit from Arazi 's absence — he was beaten a neck by All At Sea , who became Henry Cecil 's first Group One winner of the year . |
| 5 | It is apparent from the findings of fact that the justices made no findings , or if they did they did not record them , as to whether ( i ) the child was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation , or ( ii ) that if he absconded he would be likely to suffer significant harm . |
| 6 | It suggested that , despite its choice on May 26 of veteran left-wing dissident leader Kim Dae Jung as its presidential candidate , both party and leader were keen to move from the left to the political centre in a bid to garner sufficient votes to win the presidency . |
| 7 | When the body of one specimen was first brought from Australia to Britain in 1798 , it was considered to be some kind of taxidermist 's hoax — a mixture of bird and mammal — which , to some extent , it is . |
| 8 | Because of the country 's particular situation , however , the eventual outcome in the GDR was likely to diverge from the rest of the region . |
| 9 | The disarming process was due to begin from the moment of Senora Chamorro 's inauguration and be completed by the tenth of June . |
| 10 | In a world in which outward conformity with the religion of the establishment was hard to distinguish from real commitment , the call to authentic Christianity often took the form of conversion to some form of the ascetic life . |
| 11 | In Morgan v. Palmer ( 1824 ) 2 B. & C. 729 it was held that the plaintiff was entitled to recover from the Mayor of Great Yarmouth a sum which he had been required to pay as a condition of being granted a renewal of his publican 's licence , the payment having been demanded without lawful authority . |
| 12 | The judge found as a fact that the flats were ‘ substantially completed ’ and that payment was due to the plaintiff in respect of the number of flats substantially completed , which left an outstanding amount due from the defendants to the plaintiff in the absence of the payment of which the plaintiff was entitled to remove from the site . |
| 13 | The Court was concerned to learn from counsel that these matters were not always adhered to in some courts . |
| 14 | Unlike most other economic activities , fishing took place at sea outside the territory of any member state and the fishing vessel was free to move from territory to territory at will . |
| 15 | And he enjoyed picnics ; in the Guide he recounts how one day during a drive up Little Langdale and home by Dungeon Ghyll , ‘ the cloth was laid on the green grass , for that was the table : the cold collation was next produced from the carts , and the writer , though he has been one of many , has seldom witnessed more cheerful gipsyings . |
| 16 | " Although paleo-Indians probably were already in North America , no human ear heard the crashing tumult when the Lake Missoula glacial dam … burst and the nearly 2000 foot head of impounded water was free to escape from the Clark Fork River valley system of western Montana and across northern Idaho . |
| 17 | In other cases , individual workers made their own judgements about whether a person was likely to benefit from the care programme approach . |
| 18 | The reason why this rebellion was successful was in large measure due to the allegiance which the King was able to command from a people who were already bound together by a common language , system of law and form of government . |
| 19 | The bovine TB bacterium was first isolated from a badger in June 1971 , some 20 years after farmers in Cornwall had been ridiculed for suggesting that badgers were involved in the spread of TB to cattle . |
| 20 | In order to preserve her reputation , a woman was obliged to refrain from most types of work that might bring financial independence . |
| 21 | Lyn Sweeting 's daughter was due to travel from Chelmsford to London for a check up after months of chemotherapy for leukaemia . |
| 22 | A second delivery van by their side , full of interesting-looking vegetables , proved another hazard ; the donkey was unwilling to move from these Elysian fields . |
| 23 | Faced with this united German front , Napoleon III realized that for him nothing of substance was likely to emerge from the meeting and so he turned it into an exercise in public relations . |
| 24 | The return of a Conservative government in 1970 signalled a reversal of policies : the new government was anxious to disengage from both national and regional economic policies . |
| 25 | Power was conferred upon the chief officer of police to impose conditions on the holding of public processions where he had reasonable grounds to believe that serious public disorder was likely to ensue from the holding of a procession . |
| 26 | Sylvia was able to take from the cupboard only those items she could reach while standing in the hall itself . |
| 27 | The animal was first identified from a skull found last year by a joint expedition of the Vietnamese government and the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) in the Vu Quang reserve on the border with Laos . |
| 28 | When the grey squirrel was first introduced from the United States a century ago , it was viewed as a welcome newcomer . |
| 29 | The House was privileged to hear from the ’ Big Daddy ’ of the guillotine motion , the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent . |
| 30 | Though the London market was slow to recover from the great crash in October 1987 , it has enjoyed a bumper run in 1989 . |