Example sentences of "[noun] was from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cutlery was from the same state factory and had the same design and so did the plates , the menu , and the waiters . |
| 2 | Sources from both clubs said they understood the new bid was from the same source , but an Argyll spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the company was behind the bid . |
| 3 | The only heating in the Waaf huts was from the temperamental iron stove in the centre of each hut , and anyone who has had to struggle with one of these objects will appreciate what I 'm talking about . |
| 4 | At the back of her mind , it occurred to her how different real crime was from the glamorous violence portrayed on the screen . |
| 5 | To the right of the main buildings there was an open veranda or gallery with balusters and a sloping floor and entry was from the house . |
| 6 | She chose to ignore him again , paddling on in silence , not knowing if the tension in her shoulders was from the unfamiliar strain of the exercise or from the unfamiliar strain of having eyes probe one 's back with habitual cynicism . |
| 7 | On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year . |
| 8 | He makes explicit what is perhaps implicit in Taskopruzade , namely that Molla Yegan was from the province of Aydin , and adds to the sentence about his becoming muderris at certain medreses in Bursa the fact that this was through the agency of Molla Fenari . |
| 9 | After marrying one woman from the landed gentry and another from the people , Cecil 's third marriage was from the high ranks of the peerage . |
| 10 | In the south , that is Denmark and southern Sweden , the influence was from the Baltic : Holland , northern Germany and Poland . |
| 11 | The CNAA was from the beginning anxious to ensure progress towards greater democratic government in institutions , particularly , as we have seen , in the creation and proper functioning of academic boards . |
| 12 | A complex lighting system had once worked , but now the only illumination was from the gaps in the roof which allowed streams of sunlight to pour through into the empty , lifeless environment . |
| 13 | The top cutting was from the Sunday Times ; underneath , she spotted items from both the Guardian and the Sun . |
| 14 | Basil 's widowed father , a natural son of the Earl of Sandwich , formed part of Wordsworth 's circle of London friends , and the proposal that Wordsworth and Dorothy should become responsible for the child was from the beginning an important part of their plans for life at Racedown . |
| 15 | Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary . |
| 16 | Clare 's cry was from the heart . |
| 17 | The only reaction was from the latter , his masked face suddenly turning in the direction of one of the cameras . |
| 18 | He was alarmed at the possibility that this lad was from the village and that the village was rife with gossip . |
| 19 | Much of this loss of population was from the inner , high density areas of the large cities . |
| 20 | The decline into the poverty of the inter-war years was from the heights into the depths . |
| 21 | That meant that Goodwin was from the working class and had made it . |
| 22 | Hence the likelihood that his diaries would have contained material of a secret nature which needed to be suppressed by legal and governmental intervention was from the outset slight . |
| 23 | As is now widely known , when , on 2 September , Ho Chi Minh made his declaration of Vietnamese independence , his opening and acknowledged quotation was from the American original . |
| 24 | The Antipodean gentleman was from the Textile Museum in Melbourne which is where the carpet is now displayed . |
| 25 | The nearest clean water was from the standpipe in the churchyard ; they did not like to wash their finds there , because the water was for the flowers on the graves , but Martha fetched some in a bucket . |
| 26 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 27 | ‘ The girl named Shirley was from the village . |
| 28 | The first leg of the voyage was from the Tyne to Bergen in Norway , where a second group of trainees , from England took over to sail her back across the North Sea . |
| 29 | As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials . |
| 30 | Only one of the control subjects was similarly positive , and this sample was from the upper lobe of a lung with clear apical capping suggestive of old asymptomatic infection with M tuberculosis . |