Example sentences of "have [been] the [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The world title has been the dream from day one ; the dream is getting closer . |
| 2 | ‘ The world title has been the dream from day one ; the dream is getting closer . |
| 3 | So great has been the divergence from Marx and Engels ' expectations that orthodox Marxist approaches to defining the proletariat confront acute difficulties . |
| 4 | I think they are , upon the facts found by the Commissioners — whatever may have been the source from which the invested moneys were originally derived … |
| 5 | It may indeed have been the news from Thasos which turned Kimon back from seeking further conquests after the Eurymedon victory . |
| 6 | This engraving , showing what would have been the view from Charles Titford 's shop in Pig Street , was published on 1 June 1802 , five days before he died . |
| 7 | It must have been the smoke from the stove . ’ |
| 8 | Now , having been the rebel from the NHS , I had turned maverick and become the rebel of Bristol . |
| 9 | The money was said to have been the profits from drug-trafficking and kidnappings . |
| 10 | He left England on 27 October and two days later he lectured at Hamburg on " The Idea of a Christian Society " ; the tour , which he made with Arnold Toynbee , included visits to nine cities , but he complained later that not the least exhausting part of it had been the expectation from his hosts that lie was some kind of oracle as well as a poet . |
| 11 | The most difficult part of the journey had been the hitch-hike from Udine to Treviso , but at Treviso he had been lucky enough to meet the local head of the Allied Military Government , who occupied another luxurious villa . |
| 12 | It had been the custom from early times to name children after their godparents ; precisely because the paternal grandfather was an obvious choice to fulfil such an office for the eldest-born son , the impression we often receive — wrongly , perhaps — is that a specific Christian name was perpetuated just because it was that borne by the male-line grandparent . |
| 13 | Various hypotheses based on different kinds of anatomical evidence were offered to identify which invertebrate type had been the ancestor from which the ‘ main line ’ of vertebrate evolution had taken off . |