Example sentences of "it was from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 2 | It was from such traditional dance that Fokine , at the instigation of Diaghilev , devised the first truly national ballets by breaking away from the sterotyped steps . |
| 3 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 4 | It was from the ranks of Oxbridge enthusiasts that these commentators were mostly drawn . |
| 5 | The criticism hurt , but it was from encounters like this that Charles discovered what his position as Prince of Wales was all about . |
| 6 | It was from those situations that he was likely to salvage something and draw Leonard into a fight . |
| 7 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 8 | In fact it was from Vic Furlong 's shop that David bought his first saxaphone . |
| 9 | A nurse sat on Dot 's bed and unwrapped it and Dot knew it was from Mrs Hollidaye . |
| 10 | Dana was steadily centred right in the middle of Libra , and so could be regarded as a perfectly balanced human being , with a true equivalence of male and female , physical and intellectual , animal and spiritual , and I think it was from this delicate balance , never upset , that his magnetic force of personality derived . |
| 11 | There was a faint glimmer of light from her window ; it was from the night-light which she kept burning . |
| 12 | It was from this section of society that the bulk of the unemployed came . |
| 13 | But it was from America that British consumers took the idea of the founding of the Consumers ' Association and its magazine Which ? in 1957 , which was soon selling 300,000 copies — almost as many as The Times . |
| 14 | With any luck Emily would think it was from their previous ride . |
| 15 | It was from such lofty horizons that it was first introduced in 1839 and it has been in and out of gardens ever since . |
| 16 | When the first $1m came in , followed by more , Calero therefore had no idea who it was from , and did not ask . |
| 17 | It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier . |
| 18 | It was from there that he also issued his first denunciations of the Pahlavi dynasty that laid the foundations of his revolution . |
| 19 | It was from these Mayors of the Palace — senior officers of the royal house — that Charlemagne 's ancestors were eventually to become kings in their own right . |
| 20 | From the handwriting he knew it was from his mother , and he ran to his workshop to read it . |
| 21 | It was one of those rare occasions when a covert operation could be examined in the full glare of publicity and it showed what a foolhardy idea it was from the start for , even if Crabb had returned safely , it is unlikely he could have brought back enough information to have justified the risk in the first place . |
| 22 | It was from Joseph . |
| 23 | It was from there , on 28 March 1941 , that she took her last walk down to the River Ouse and waded into the water . |
| 24 | The Emperor 's apartments were on the ground floor and included as well as his bedroom those rooms set aside for work , for it was from here that Napoleon III governed . |
| 25 | For it was from its icy blue waters that the first Sun Emperor Manco Capac and his sister-wife emerged — one legend has it they came from the Island of the Sun , now in Bolivian waters . |
| 26 | But the sun 's rays reflected wickedly off the intense blue waters of the lake , so it was from the small window of the launch that I — a different creature by far — watched the pyramid shape of Taquile drift by , and the few kilometres of Amantani come into view . |
| 27 | Even more important however , it was from the eastern window here that Jaroslav Martinic and William Slavata , both fanatical Catholics and Habsburg supporters , were defenestrated by members of the Bohemian Protestant Estates in 1618 ( see p. 10 ) . |
| 28 | It was from a window in this palace that Jan Masaryk , son of the first president of Czechoslovakia and ex-ambassador to London , fell to his death . |
| 29 | The word ‘ petřín ’ comes from the medieval Latin for ‘ stone ’ , and it was from this land that much of Prague derived its building materials . |
| 30 | Platzer again was responsible for the statuary and it was from the Platzer workshop too , in the mid-18C , that the Jesuit saints flanking the nave came . |