Example sentences of "was a [noun] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a warning from the man upstairs . |
| 2 | At the recent Parish Council meeting there was a request from a local resident that the bridle way leaving the Trough Road opposite the entrance to Salisbury Farm ( Grid Ref SD 522 511 ) which was stopped when the gas pipe line was laid should be reopened . |
| 3 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 4 | Although in 1974 the Supreme Court had ordered President Nixon to surrender tapes in connection with the Watergate affair ( when Democratic Party premises had been broken into by Nixon 's supporters with his knowledge ) , no court had ever ordered a former President to surrender personal notes , and Greene 's decision was a departure from a ruling in the case of Oliver North , where requests for such material had been denied . |
| 5 | The draft had proposed what was a departure from the Luxembourg proposals of June 1991 in that , amongst many other matters , it firstly would have placed foreign , security and judicial matters within the single framework of the European Community decision making process , together with , secondly , vastly greater powers for the European Parliament . |
| 6 | First there was the trend to focus upon extreme events because these are the ones that may occasion damage and costs , they are the ones for which landscape management strategies may be designed , and this was a departure from the earlier emphasis upon the average experience . |
| 7 | There was a whirr from the box . |
| 8 | This was a reduction from the previous year 's record deficit of US$63,800,000 . |
| 9 | Then on the slope above , there was a snort from a watchful hind and in a second every beast was in flight , careering down the hillside , leaping , bounding , in jerky yet fluid motion . |
| 10 | Suddenly there was a gasp from the crowd . |
| 11 | There was a gasp from the children and a high scream from Millie as the scissors went snip , snip , snip . |
| 12 | She was a hangover from the old days , when he had had to hustle the stuff himself . |
| 13 | On his desk there was a message from the Sub-lieutenant at the hospital . |
| 14 | On the walls there was a certificate from a professional institution , an advertisement calendar , and a framed photograph of the harbour . |
| 15 | And the award was a certificate from the home secretary a very treasured certificate from a highly respected member of the cabinet , and erm where it 's gone from there we had a meeting at the home office |
| 16 | He looked to the side of the room and saw the plastic speaker from which the sound had come ; it was a component from an old car stereo , and it hung from a hook with its wire incompetently stapled to the boards . |
| 17 | Mungo was about to say ‘ yes ’ , when there was a bellow from the direction of the pub . |
| 18 | He was a fugitive from the justice of his own country . |
| 19 | Now " Happy " was a fugitive from the Royal Marines , and he knew his rifle drill . |
| 20 | Then there was a noise from the rear of the house , the scrape of a door being opened . |
| 21 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 22 | Another special design shape is the spray ( see pp. 114–5 ) , and if you wanted one that was lighter in feel , you could create a spray of flowers with the stalks still showing as though they were an unwrapped bouquet , or a spray made to look as though it was a sprig from a bush or tree , with some flowers intertwined with the leaves . |
| 23 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 24 | His uncles included a bishop , an abbot and one of the barons who was a profiteer from the anarchy of Stephen 's reign . |
| 25 | ‘ It was a success from the very beginning , ’ said Lili . |
| 26 | The Sheikha again said that it was a story from the days past but Halema did not say another word . |
| 27 | Consideration of the inspection and the feedback sessions raises the question of how far the inspection was a follow-on from the self-appraisal and of how far the school 's own review was evaluated by professional outsiders . |
| 28 | It was a nightmare from the word go . |
| 29 | ‘ We do not need a peace envoy , thank you very much , ’ Sir Patrick said , before going on to emphasise that what was needed was a settlement from the current all-party talks process . |
| 30 | There was a grunt from the other end of the line , a sound between exasperation and despair . |