Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were from a local technical college and were taken for short periods . |
| 2 | Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month , more than half were from the once prosperous region . |
| 3 | It is doubtful whether the Evangelicals , in laying so much stress on the last hour as indicator of the soul 's future state , realised how great a departure this was from the eschatology of the early church . |
| 4 | This was from Miss Belle . |
| 5 | This was from the basis of a new found security in a relationship with a male student who managed to last out more than the usual six weeks of all my other relationships so far at college . |
| 6 | There was decline in primary industries with a 70% fall in employment , but this was from a small initial base . |
| 7 | This was from ( Kev ) |
| 8 | This was from Maj Johann Christie DSO . |
| 9 | ‘ Eritage BEFORE everybody writes in to complain of dropping educational standards this was from years ago . |
| 10 | In addition there were 397,073 immigrants , of whom nearly 148,000 were from the Soviet Union and 111,000 from Romania . |
| 11 | Louis Bizat , the Palace 's present general manager , says : " When it burned down I received , within eight days , over 200 telegrams , of which 190 were from abroad , from places as far apart as Canada , Hong Kong , the States , Australia , all expressing their sorrow that this had happened . |
| 12 | Small in comparison to major fairs such as Basel , it is however the leading Asian fair and this year included ninety-one galleries of which fifty-nine were from outside Japan ( nine less foreign galleries than in 1992 ) . |
| 13 | The following was from someone on the League Of Ireland soccer list . |
| 14 | Second was from Packaging who wins a £10 voucher . |
| 15 | The woollen workers who rioted in Melksham against wage-cutting clothiers in 1738 were from a group of workers sufficiently well organised to petition both parliament and local justices . |
| 16 | In one respect , however , the government 's stated intention was noticeably frustrated ; only 38 appointments to District General Manager ( DGM ) posts were made from outside the NHS , and many of these were from the armed forces rather than the private businesses the government wished to tap . |
| 17 | For their second book , they interviewed 700 mothers of four-year-old children , but only 275 of these were from the original sample ( Newson and Newson 1968 ) . |
| 18 | Even at the end of the nineteenth century infant mortality still accounted for almost one death in five , Almost half of these were from diarrhoea and related gastro-enteric infections : dysentery , ‘ colic ’ , ‘ convulsions ’ , ‘ griping in the guts ’ , infantile summer diarrhoea . |
| 19 | A total of 75% of the households moving into new owner-occupied dwellings were from the County of Tyne and Wear and the greater part of these were from the Newcastle and North Tyneside MDC areas . |
| 20 | Sixteen of these were from patients with sarcoidosis who underwent biopsy of the lung ( nine patients ) , lymph node ( six patients ) , or skin ( one patient ) . |
| 21 | These were from the room of Evelyn Bond . |
| 22 | Two of these were from one patient with newly diagnosed and radiologically active terminal ileal Crohn 's disease who was treated with elemental diet for four weeks . |
| 23 | These were from erm from . |
| 24 | The present search was concerned with those theses with identifiable ‘ D ’ numbers — 142 in total — of which 139 were from the Will listing . |
| 25 | Three were from weekly hospital and public health laboratory reports , and two more from clinical reports from venereologists and dermatologists . |
| 26 | Three were from a woman — always the same woman . |
| 27 | Two routes entered the area via northern Namibia by agreement with the Namibian government and the other three were from government-controlled ports . |
| 28 | Of these 17,500,000 were from infectious and parasitic diseases such as acute respiratory infections , diarrhoeal diseases , tuberculosis , malaria and hepatitis B ; 11,931,000 were from cardiovascular diseases and 5,121,000 were from cancer . |
| 29 | Six different nationalities were represented , ages were from 24 to 35 and all were from different backgrounds . |
| 30 | Many were from the Polish part of Russia . |