Example sentences of "[been] a [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has , indeed , been a change from traditional , empirical , English ways . |
| 2 | Apart from those two demands , which were almost certainly hoaxes , there has not been a cheep from anybody . |
| 3 | If he 'd had the money to choose a more experienced barrister , if the Marshal himself had been on the spot in the first place instead of that young fool student , Bacci , who fancied himself as some sort of Hollywood detective , probably have shot himself accidentally by this time … whole thing had been a mess from start to finish … |
| 4 | The thing between himself and Isobel had been so long ago he had difficulty remembering it , and it had been a mistake from the first . |
| 5 | It was the combination of the carrier bag and the boots and the voluminous purple cloak that had been a present from Laura that attracted the attention of the man at the first-floor windows of Loxford Old Rectory , the man who had decided to buy it . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it had been a present from a — he swallowed , feeling sweaty with embarrassment — from a lover or something . |
| 7 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |
| 8 | Lyddy had laid out the pearl grey coat and skirt that had been a present from Aunt Emily and a fur coat Alexandra had never seen before , heavy and glossy . |
| 9 | It had been a present from the colonel — to keep her company , he 'd insisted with his gentle smile . |
| 10 | There has been a proposal from the CCPR Movement and Dance Divisional Meeting suggesting that a joint mailing list of participants in Movement and Dance would generate some 100,000 people . |
| 11 | Zervos had a huge dense beard that might have been a cutting from the grotto 's undergrowth . |
| 12 | In his article ‘ The New Course of Our Economic Policy ’ there had been a retreat from some of the more blatantly utopian ideas of The Economics ; gone was the euphoria ; it was now acknowledged that product exchanges and naturalisation of the economy were not an immediate prospect . |
| 13 | To use Hirschi and Gottfredson 's ( 1986 ) terminology , there seems to have been a retreat from explanations of criminality , to explanations of crime — from explaining criminal dispositions , to explaining ( or rather preventing ) criminal acts . |
| 14 | There has been a retreat from the position that States are the only proper subjects of international law , through the acknowledgment that both international organisations and individuals possess a degree of international personality , a development which would have been severely impeded by a rigid adherence to the classic rule . |
| 15 | ‘ Over the past twenty years or so ’ , he announced in a Daily Express front-page splash , ‘ there has been a revulsion from authority and discipline … |
| 16 | With the first round of the Regal championship the likely highlight , the meeting should n't lack interest for this series has been a winner from the start . |
| 17 | She has been a delight from the beginning , not only to us , but to all the friends and relatives who have met her . |
| 18 | The conversation had been a surprise from the beginning , when a light young female voice had answered my call . |
| 19 | Might there also have been a descent from Jesus 's family ? |
| 20 | Having been a subscriber from your first issue , I find myself already amazed at how often I refer to my various back numbers . |
| 21 | However , although there is no indication of the source of 10 marks payable to Roger Blomfeld of Buxton , Norfolk ( where he also owned land worth 13s. 4d. ) , the £1. 9s. 8d. assigned to Thomas Parker , a servant of the king at Elmley Lovett , Worcs. , could well have been a payment from the manor , which was a royal estate , and Parker himself did not live there . |
| 22 | A beneficent deity , Kukulkan was once held to have been a king from another land , who arrived in Yucatan by sea and elected to stay rather than risk the return voyage . |
| 23 | Anyway , there 's been a report from a chambermaid at the hotel ; she says she saw Alfred just before eight this morning , on his way up the street . |
| 24 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 25 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 26 | Last birthday there had been a card from Gerry , written on shore leave and left with Mary for posting , yet now she was a woman alone . |
| 27 | His name , he said , was Shlomo Green and he had been a refugee from Romania . |
| 28 | Baby Sousan had been a gift from Allah , a blessing , a reward for the affection of two people for each other who were never meant to be together . |
| 29 | The dress had been a gift from her mother , and , although it was pretty enough , it had never been one of her favourites . |
| 30 | Since the 1950s , its composition has altered , in that there has been a shift from the rural informal proletariat to the urban . |