Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | His briefer letters to Harry Hooton — avoiding those ‘ terrible letters I used to throw at you last term as it might be from the fruitless monotony of this place ’ — now explain his reading . |
| 32 | The roofs were most often not their own : long since , the community had drawn in from its perimeter , sharing its water , its food and its warmth , and distancing itself so far as might be from the walls and the thud of the cannon . |
| 33 | It is hard to tell what these powers might be from the 1992 Conservative manifesto , a model of vagueness . |
| 34 | They ignored the possibility that tomorrow 's refugees might be from China or Yugoslavia ; or that , even if they are Muslim , their needs may be material or cultural and not religious . |
| 35 | We suggest that the high-velocity maser emission in NGC4258 might be from masers orbiting a massive central black hole , or ejected in a bipolar outflow . |
| 36 | For the modern Christian , however , there is often no awareness of the geographical and political relation between these places , how far they might be from each other , how long a journey from one to the other might take . |
| 37 | No one in the room is excluded , as they might be from a maths activity that some of them ca n't do ; or from a games session , where physical prowess is such an important factor . |
| 38 | High buckminsterfullerene yields have been obtained in a heated pulsed laser vaporization where there is no continuous source of new small radicals as there might be from the arc . |
| 39 | They may have been formed in the interests of diversification ( unnecessary though this might be from the viewpoint of the theory of finance ) or for political reasons , for example . |
| 40 | ‘ I suppose that 's one reason why I thought the letter might be from Canon Wheeler . ’ |
| 41 | They might be from almost any walk of life from whore to female preacher , and would follow their army ( or any army in some cases ) throughout the campaigns . |
| 42 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 43 | You might be from the newspapers , for all I know . |
| 44 | Might be from one of the holidays |
| 45 | The job may go under different titles on different stations around the world , but essentially that 's what I 'll be from Monday on , even if you do earn more than me . ’ |
| 46 | Well that 'll be from Monday Lynne wo n't it ? |
| 47 | So Lisa , it 's it 's going round at the moment with a mobile one , but after that it 'll be from the shop . |
| 48 | No it 'll be from here |
| 49 | Ok , normally what we do is to charge erm , erm the lowest charge is fifty pence per mile ok , so that 'll be from the time it leaves here in London till the time it returns . |
| 50 | According to Lotus associate director Albert Adams — a world authority on composites and the man who , 30 years ago , was told by Chapman to ‘ learn all about glass-fibre ’ — it could be from the escalating costs of tooling up for pressed-steel car production . |
| 51 | The only doubt concerns the date ; it seems these early records could be from any year between 1889 and 1891 , so whether Edison or Berliner was actually first to make records with a ‘ label ’ is open to debate . |
| 52 | A dull cool summer it had been , as different as could be from the year before . |
| 53 | Must be an escape from a zoo , he thought , just as mink could be from fur farms . |
| 54 | The text could be from the course-book you are using , from a reader , from a newspaper — whatever your students are interested in . |
| 55 | Whatever Shakespeare 's source or inspiration , Pistol is a brilliant invention , locked as he is in a verse-form and range of reference derived from the heroical plays in the London theatres of the 1580s and 1590s , as far removed as could be from his debased reality . |
| 56 | We hoped some of these beautifully marked black and white birds were from our own RSPB Minsmere Reserve in Suffolk ; others could be from Holland … |
| 57 | My derangement had me believing that this , too , could be from Francis . |
| 58 | Boldwood took it quickly and opened it , thinking it could be from the sender of the valentine . |
| 59 | And especially a er they could be from people , |
| 60 | This should be done in confidence and could be from a colleague , safety representative or informal contact with your Institution or trade union/professional association . |