Example sentences of "[was/were] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although that lifeboat station was not operating during the war the crew were from a lifeboat family , one of whom was awarded a Bronze medal for Gallantry some 30 years later . |
| 2 | One member of the staff team of nine had nursing training ; two had been teachers and the rest were from a variety of other backgrounds . |
| 3 | Species whose populations decreased were from a variety of habitats including open fields and farmland ( Skylark and Yellowhammer ) , ponds ( Moorhen ) , scrub ( Whitethroat ) , wetlands ( Sedge Warbler ) , woodlands ( Stock Dove ) , aerial feeders ( Swallow and House Martin ) and many generalists particularly at home in gardens ( Wren , Dunnock , Robin , Blackbird and Song Thrush ) . |
| 4 | The worst results were from a school in Bournemouth . |
| 5 | I had the arm of Aaron and , when someone burnt that as a joke , changed my tale and said the ashes were from a fire over which the martyr of St Lawrence died . |
| 6 | The woollen workers who rioted in Melksham against wage-cutting clothiers in 1738 were from a group of workers sufficiently well organised to petition both parliament and local justices . |
| 7 | They were chosen simply because they were from a library and had been cast out . |
| 8 | Three were from a woman — always the same woman . |
| 9 | ‘ All the hits were done because they were from a formula for making hits in those days . |
| 10 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 11 | 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 . ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For this purpose Marx and Engels had to show just how different primitive societies were from the type of society their readers knew . |
| 14 | The farther away they were from the centre of authority the easier it was . |
| 15 | Those medals were from the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 16 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 17 | The present search was concerned with those theses with identifiable ‘ D ’ numbers — 142 in total — of which 139 were from the Will listing . |
| 18 | The largest proportion were from the West Indies , Malaysia and Mauritius . |
| 19 | Nearly all its remaining MPs were from the coalfields and it looked once more like the Labour Representation Committee of the pre-war period . |
| 20 | The main office entrance and the entrance to the Foreign Secretary 's residence were from the court . |
| 21 | Standing side by side the men in suits were from the union , the men in overalls from the management . |
| 22 | The other children were from the south , all older than me and posher . |
| 23 | They were from the Lord Provost of Glasgow . |
| 24 | ‘ You said you were from the Ministry . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In verses 5 and 6 Peter makes direct reference to the flood of judgment which came upon the earth in the days of Noah and at the end of the preceding verse 4 he writes of how the scoffers will say that ‘ all things continue as they were from the beginning of the CREATION . ’ |
| 27 | The new courts and departments established under the Tudors were from the beginning staffed by laymen : there was no question of clerical officials being appointed to the Courts of Wards or Augmentations . |
| 28 | Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine . |
| 29 | Out of the 30 battalions there , only four were from the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | 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 . |