Example sentences of "[noun prp] be from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Punjab , the country 's biggest province , is pleased : he is a Punjabi , whereas Mr Ishaq is from the North West Frontier Province . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , actually , Ace is from nineteen eighty-six , Benny is from the twenty-fifth century , and I 'm not from this planet at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Earl , a classmate of North 's from the Naval Academy , was privy to quite a lot , including the diversion . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I can see now a typical speech of Crossman 's from the back benches . |
| 12 | Maximilian is from the University of Basel and Jo-Ann is from the University of California at Los Angeles . ’ |
| 13 | As far as I can understand Samson 's Lane is from the school down to Samson 's Farm and probably part of the road down to . |
| 14 | Peter Audley Miller is from the Conservatives , and Margaret McKenzie is from the Labour side . |
| 15 | That meant that Goodwin was from the working class and had made it . |
| 16 | But if I come one day and Liverpool are from the league , I |
| 17 | Johnny Castaway is from the same stable , and takes the production values of its forbears into a hitherto uncharted realm — the story-telling screen saver . |
| 18 | Jean McConnell is from the Libra theatre company who will benefit from this gala . |
| 19 | ‘ The girl named Shirley was from the village . |
| 20 | King Hussein of Jordan was from the outset , much as during the Iran-Iraq war , a supporter of Iraq . |
| 21 | Peter Audley Miller is from the Conservatives , and Margaret McKenzie is from the Labour side . |
| 22 | Sister Jenny runs The Porch , that 's a drop in centre for the homeless in the Cowley Road area , and Lesley Dewhurst is from the Elmore Group — that 's a group that helps ‘ difficult to place people' . |
| 23 | As happens many times throughout , and frequently in footnotes , one sentence of Boswell 's from the after-dinner conversation contains the seeds of a novel — even , potentially , a saga : . |
| 24 | Angus Charmers is from the accountants : Grant Folton . |
| 25 | Twenty furious seven-minute first-round matches resulted in semi-finals between Gus Cargill 's Torness 5 team and Tim Cromak 's from the Project Division staff on Torness Site , and between Brian Joyce 's Peel Park 3 and Rab Todd 's Torness 1 . |
| 26 | Cinema admissions had indeed increased as people sought escape at the movies from the horrors of war , and the flow of French and Italian imports had been disrupted , but the screen-time made available had been almost totally absorbed by American pictures : by 1918 some 80 per cent or films shown in Britain were from the US . |
| 27 | The best place to survey Cairo is from the top of the Cairo Tower where one can survey the whole teeming , colourful metropolis built upon the foundations of the legendary city of Babylon . |
| 28 | His questions make me realize again how far away Europe is from the United States , and how relatively obscure . |
| 29 | Thus my first glimpse of Isvik was from the bathroom window of a seafaring man , who had exchanged his small coaster for a house on the quay looking straight out on to the Magellan Strait . |
| 30 | My first view of Hvannadalshnúkur was from the plane as I flew into Höfn from Reykjavik . |