Example sentences of "[was/were] from [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other parties represented were from the France unie grouping , from either the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche ( MRG — Left Radical Movement , Emile Zuccarelli pres. ) or the Union pour la démocratie française ( UDF — Union for French Democracy , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ch . ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The present search was concerned with those theses with identifiable ‘ D ’ numbers — 142 in total — of which 139 were from the Will listing . |
| 4 | The largest proportion were from the West Indies , Malaysia and Mauritius . |
| 5 | They were from the Lord Provost of Glasgow . |
| 6 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 7 | Out of the 30 battalions there , only four were from the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | This reflects the consensus in reports on economic evaluation and , as all the source studies were from the United Kingdom , the discount rate recommended by the Treasury . |
| 9 | He declined to give any personal details about the pair apart from saying they were from the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | In 1957 , 74 out of the top 100 firms were from the United States ; in 1972 the figure was 53 . |
| 11 | All but one of the 14 Cabinet members were from the HZDS ( including Ludovit Cernak , elected as a member of the Slovak National Party , who joined the HZDS after the election ) . |
| 12 | Some of them , hearing my camelmen speaking Somali , became increasingly threatening , asserting that they were from the Issa , a Somali tribe with whom they were then , as always , at war . |
| 13 | More than 80 per cent of deputies were from the Azerbaijan CP , while the opposition deputies from the Popular Front , the Social Democrats , the Greens and the Union of the Democratic Intelligentsia united in parliament in an umbrella Democratic Bloc of Azerbaijan . |
| 14 | All the soldiers were from the Battlebury Barracks in Wiltshire . |
| 15 | Of those going forward as candidates , 628 were from the MPRP , 16 from the pro-MPRP Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League , 68 from the Mongolian Democratic Party ( MDP ) ( the main opposition grouping ) , 18 from the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) , 15 from the National Progress party ( NPP ) , and 55 were independents . |
| 16 | Police said the six — all friends — were from the Dundalk area . |
| 17 | It is felt that the persons responsible are in fact local , although both youths stated that they were from the Nottingham area . |
| 18 | Det Supt Albert Kirby , the man in charge of the murder inquiry , said that the two boys they had arrested were from the Walton area of Liverpool . |
| 19 | Written by John Kaufman , performer and writer were from the Nez Perce Tribe . |
| 20 | A total of 75% of the households moving into new owner-occupied dwellings were from the County of Tyne and Wear and the greater part of these were from the Newcastle and North Tyneside MDC areas . |
| 21 | The four were from the Greenpeace ship , Rainbow Warrior II ( whose predecessor had been sank by the French secret service while on a similar mission in 1985 ) . |
| 22 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 23 | Her mother was from a Leeds Jewish family and her Granny lived with them . |
| 24 | The cab was from an M-F 1200 and link arms came from a David Brown . |
| 25 | There is only one reported case associated with minor dermatological surgery and that was from the United States in 1987 . |
| 26 | The other report was from the DC who had called on Garland 's daughter , Anna , and her mother . |
| 27 | ( c. 1335–1395 ) , royal servant and bishop , was from the West Riding of Yorkshire , probably from a family of modest account . |
| 28 | He was from the Sheffield and was followed by an officer from the staff of the operations ship of Admiral Woodward , who was accompanied by his wife and little daughter . |
| 29 | The boy 's mother was from the Landes region , and Grégoire took after her rather than after Jean-Paul : he was very thin , very tanned , with a narrow solemn face , and thick black hair . |
| 30 | In the 1950s , the bulk of immigration was from the Caribbean , the men coming first , followed by their families . |