Example sentences of "[vb past] be from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they only shots they encountered were from cameras . |
| 2 | ‘ The metal we used is from an old caravan roof which we bonded to the wood with Evostick , ’ explained Tony . |
| 3 | The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK . |
| 4 | The interviews were mostly with women 's magazines , and many of the letters we received were from women , who felt an instinctive sympathy for John and could easily put themselves either in my position or that of John 's mother . |
| 5 | Celtic finished the half well on top , though the closest they came was from the powerful long range shooting of Polish defender Wdowczyk . |
| 6 | Species whose populations decreased were from a variety of habitats including open fields and farmland ( Skylark and Yellowhammer ) , ponds ( Moorhen ) , scrub ( Whitethroat ) , wetlands ( Sedge Warbler ) , woodlands ( Stock Dove ) , aerial feeders ( Swallow and House Martin ) and many generalists particularly at home in gardens ( Wren , Dunnock , Robin , Blackbird and Song Thrush ) . |
| 7 | Tonight , police said one of the drivers killed was from Northampton . |
| 8 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 9 | Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God . |
| 10 | Leaving until last the one which he knew was from Madeleine , he opened Aubrey 's . |
| 11 | Slowly , savouring the moment , Harry opened the letter he knew was from Madeleine . |
| 12 | However , much one may respect Borg 's reputation and his unerring sportsmanship , I find it hard to share his optimism , especially as only 16 of the 54 points he won were from his winners . |
| 13 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 14 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , said the first he had heard that the men , women and children sent back from the British-occupied zone of Austria had been tortured and massacred was from Count Tolstoy in 1979 . |
| 15 | All the previous imports had been from Germany , but one of the most influential imports of the early 1960s was made by the Elsdens , who looked to Holland for their import . |
| 16 | For her it had been from the tender age of five , when her own brother and male ‘ friends ’ of a single-parent family abused her . |
| 17 | His main interest was foreign and defence policy ( for a time he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , as he had been from 1940 to 1945 ) . |
| 18 | But now the human nature of Jesus was not only perfect — as it had been from conception — it was a risen humanity beyond death . |
| 19 | The call had been for Hank , and had been from one of his classmates , who said that he just wanted to inquire how Hank was . |
| 20 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 21 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
| 22 | The famous English institutions of learning , the universities and colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and the colleges at Eton and Winchester were specifically exempted from the provisions of the Act , as they had been from earlier legislation . |
| 23 | It had been from their lips that I first heard uttered the expression avare comme un juif , followed by a vicious attack on the only Jewish family in their village to have survived the war and returned to claim their old house . |
| 24 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
| 25 | Without a word having been spoken about it , it was settled between us , I knew ; it had been from the beginning . |
| 26 | It is true to say that the cars are largely restricted to three or four models , but my own insistence had been from the outset that no obligation to use the scheme should be imposed on the disabled , nor any obligation to a particular model . |
| 27 | John Baring 's father had been from 1882 senior partner in the merchant bank of Baring Brothers , and he himself joined the firm on leaving Cambridge , served his apprenticeship as a clerk , travelled widely in North and South America , and was made a full partner early in 1890 . |
| 28 | The original answer had been from a woman and the French had baffled her . |
| 29 | Most purchasers had been from south-east Asia . |
| 30 | Their venture had been from start to finish " planned by the woollen interests , financed from the profits of that trade and built predominantly for the needs of the woollen industry . " |