Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] [pron] [vb past] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large number of coins was found in ‘ the mortary destruction layer ’ of the vestibule and in ‘ robbing pits ’ in the cella , and the assumption was that they came from hoards buried in the temple floors or structure and were scattered when demolition took place . |
| 2 | The sadness was that it came from the killing of Harry . |
| 3 | What was striking about the instant response to Stanley 's emancipation proposals in 1833 was that it came from Howick , until recently in charge , at the Colonial Office , of the emancipation question , and that his strongest dissent arose from the failure of the plan to chart a move as soon as possible directly from slavery to free labour without bothering with an apprenticeship stage . |
| 4 | One of the most telling strands in the antiracist critique of multiculturalism in the 1970s and 1980s , for example , was that it suffered from an overemphasis on culture . |
| 5 | Well I do n't know what make it was but it came from the house , the furnishing company of Union Street , Plymouth I ca n't remember the shop . |
| 6 | If Marryat made this choice , it was because he wrote from within the experience of many years serving in the navy from 1806 , not continuously but when employment was available : more than one of his novels was written in the cabin of a ship under his command . |
| 7 | If , nevertheless , it is accurate , and Eadric was known as someone unwilling to oppose the Scandinavians , one can speculate that it was because he profited from the raising of tribute by acquiring the lands of defaulters . |
| 8 | ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’ |
| 9 | It was as they stepped from the dodgem stand and Rachel turned from helping Belinda down the steep steps to the grass that she saw the little group of her family watching them . |
| 10 | And it was as he turned from her , that jewel box in his hand , that he suddenly knew who had taken those jewels , and his anger carried him away from Charity 's pain and her need . |