Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speakers will be , who are spending a year at Heriot 's from Australia and New Zealand . |
| 2 | There was a friend of Eleanor 's from Austria in the house and Kathleen . |
| 3 | The titles of Marjorie Rosen 's Popcorn Venus ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell 's from Reverence to Rape ( 1974 ) indicate this concern with images ; both books aim at giving a survey of representations of women in Hollywood film . |
| 4 | Iain Macleod 's acceleration of the withdrawal timetables was being implemented : the independence of Tanganyika was brought forward from 1970 to December 1961 ; Uganda 's from 1973 to October 1962 ; Kenya 's from 1975 to December 1963 . |
| 5 | Nor those dreadful factory hooters , Mr Colclough 's from the foundry , Mr Lord 's answering it , her husband 's from the top of the hill , Ben Braithwaite 's intruding as stridently as his mother 's purple taffeta dresses from the other side of town , each one of them blasting out its five minute warning as to the pains and penalties of being late . |
| 6 | Justin Scott 's from Cirencester … |
| 7 | I 'm joined by Phyllis Starkey , she 's the leader of the Oxford City Council , the leader of the Labour Group , and Michael Wright is from the Liberal Democrats , and Queenie Warley is a former mayor and she 's from the Conservative benches . |
| 8 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 9 | The best access from this area of central Dalmatia to the upper course of the Cetina in Sinjsko Polje is from the coast at Split via Solin ( Salona ) and the steep defile at Klis . |
| 10 | Norway 's north is even farther from Oslo than Oslo is from Brussels ; Norwegians fear that the EC would mean rule by distant bureaucrats who know nothing of their country . |
| 11 | Punjab , the country 's biggest province , is pleased : he is a Punjabi , whereas Mr Ishaq is from the North West Frontier Province . |
| 12 | Next I listened to the recent EMI disc comprising Dvořák 's American and Smetana 's From my life Quartets performed by the Alban Berg Quartet . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , actually , Ace is from nineteen eighty-six , Benny is from the twenty-fifth century , and I 'm not from this planet at all . |
| 14 | Dazzle features Simon Wright as hero Sam Galactic , with Cally Hatton as Dazzle , Greg Wright as Mr Speak , son of Spock , and the adventuring crew of the starship Sunburst I. The crew tours the universe and meet aliens like Slimy Swampers , Bolshi 's from the planet Red Star , and , in a flashback in time , meet nasty greasers from the '60s led by Sue Zuki . |
| 15 | Most of the ice cream parlours have gone now — Rossi 's from Bishop Auckland , the Roma , Willington , the Gaiety Temperance Bar , Houghton-le-Spring , Scappaticci 's ice cream salon in Middlesbrough , Di Mascio 's Regal Cafe for Ice , Darlington . |
| 16 | In June , because of the group 's recent financial performance and higher debt levels , our debt rating was downgraded by Moody 's from Aa3 to A1 ( the rating in 1990 ) and by Standard and Poor 's from AA to AA- . |
| 17 | John , aged ten , lives in Coundon , near Bishop Auckland ; 12-year-old Karen is from Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | In the aquarium , you will see a number of aquatic tortoises , including Malayan Box , Reeve 's from Asia , Helmeted from Africa , Caspian and Pond Terrapins from Europe and Three-toed Box from North America . |
| 19 | A laid-back little seaside resort regarded by Perth 's residents as being on their doorstep — although it 's as far as Aberdeen is from London — Kalbarri has a remote , island feel . |
| 20 | She had come on to Benedict 's from an interview with her bank manager . |
| 21 | Earl , a classmate of North 's from the Naval Academy , was privy to quite a lot , including the diversion . |
| 22 | Most people in America and Western Europe still see what is going on there — no farther away from this summer 's holidaymakers in Venice or Tyrol than Lyons is from Paris , or York from London — as a largely irrelevant struggle in an obscure corner of the world . |
| 23 | In contrast , Agassi is from Las Vegas , the booming gambling town in the desert . |
| 24 | The French verse which Pamela recites to Mrs. Belville is from Voltaire 's adaptation Nanine ; the first scene between Lady Davers , Pamela , and Belville is from a contemporary translation of Goldoni 's Pamela Nubile ; the first scene between Mrs. Jewkes , Pamela and Mr. Williams is from Giffard 's adaptation and the Italian dialogue is a translation of a Richardson scene between the Countess and Belville . |
| 25 | The French verse which Pamela recites to Mrs. Belville is from Voltaire 's adaptation Nanine ; the first scene between Lady Davers , Pamela , and Belville is from a contemporary translation of Goldoni 's Pamela Nubile ; the first scene between Mrs. Jewkes , Pamela and Mr. Williams is from Giffard 's adaptation and the Italian dialogue is a translation of a Richardson scene between the Countess and Belville . |
| 26 | His use of Arabic , we 're told , is as different from the traditional forms as Dickens is from Chaucer . |
| 27 | I can see now a typical speech of Crossman 's from the back benches . |
| 28 | Maximilian is from the University of Basel and Jo-Ann is from the University of California at Los Angeles . ’ |
| 29 | The only people to phone were Joseph and Lily , and now and again a friend of Elaine 's from work . |
| 30 | The French verse which Pamela recites to Mrs. Belville is from Voltaire 's adaptation Nanine ; the first scene between Lady Davers , Pamela , and Belville is from a contemporary translation of Goldoni 's Pamela Nubile ; the first scene between Mrs. Jewkes , Pamela and Mr. Williams is from Giffard 's adaptation and the Italian dialogue is a translation of a Richardson scene between the Countess and Belville . |