Example sentences of "be from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He quoted the dismissive comment of the writer of the volume on British Painting 1530–1790 in the Pelican History of Art : ‘ To discuss the Sartorius tribe and such painters is no business of the historian of art , no matter how bitter the accusations of neglect are wont to be from those specialist writers who sometimes confuse the history of art with praising famous horses . ’ |
| 2 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 3 | If the death is then considered to be from natural causes , the coroner will issue a notification that he does not consider it necessary to hold an inquest , and this may be given to the relative to take to the registrar or sent to the registrar direct . |
| 4 | Only a day earlier , another pro-Palestinian group calling itself the ‘ soldiers of justice ’ - believed to be from Abu Nidal 's organisation — had claimed responsibility in Beirut for the murder of the Belgian Jewish leader , Joseph Wybron . |
| 5 | A High Commission official has interviewed Selahattin Ozberk , 30 , and a doctor who examined him said that he is potentially suicidal and has scars which appear to be from beatings in Turkey . |
| 6 | Mortified , all the other political leaders voted to change the rules to exclude the far-right MEPs from their new posts , especially after it was discovered that Mr Le Pen 's man for Israel was likely to be from West Germany 's Republicans , led by an ex-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber . |
| 7 | They are thought to be from south China . |
| 8 | If he retires then , it will only be from the public arena . |
| 9 | out of the seven or eight records played in each Radio I half-hour , four or five will be from the playlist . |
| 10 | The badge looks to be from the '50s . |
| 11 | According to Lotus associate director Albert Adams — a world authority on composites and the man who , 30 years ago , was told by Chapman to ‘ learn all about glass-fibre ’ — it could be from the escalating costs of tooling up for pressed-steel car production . |
| 12 | In the Williams incident , a caller giving a false name and claiming to be from brokers Hoare Govett rang the Guardian and other newspapers with a story earlier this week claiming that a stake of over 3 per cent had been built secretly by the Barclay brothers . |
| 13 | Inevitably most of the players will be from the Hearn and Doyle camps , which are headed by Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry respectively , but Doug Mountjoy , who is unmanaged , and Dean Reynolds , who is managed by Mark McCormack 's International Management Group , are also provisionally in the top eight . |
| 14 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized . |
| 15 | Under other scenarios in which controls of varying severity are introduced the increases would be from 0.1 ° C to 0.2 ° C each decade . |
| 16 | During the rest of the 1990s the number of youngsters entering the workforce each year will be smaller than at any time since the second world war ; but two-fifths will be from minorities , mostly Hispanics and blacks . |
| 17 | His briefer letters to Harry Hooton — avoiding those ‘ terrible letters I used to throw at you last term as it might be from the fruitless monotony of this place ’ — now explain his reading . |
| 18 | Both of them are ‘ such knowledge of effects or appearances , as we acquire by true ratiocination from the knowledge we have first of their causes or generations : And again , of such causes or generations as may be from knowing first their effects . ’ |
| 19 | 6.2 Discriminant analysis results of neutron activation data for Spanish tin-glazed pottery known to be from Malaga , Valencia and Seville . |
| 20 | For instance , the teeth on the famous supposedly Pre-Columbian crystal skull , said to be from Mexico ( fig. 8.7 ) , have been cut with an abrasive wheel . |
| 21 | 8.7 Crystal skull ( ETH 1898–1 ) , said to be from Mexico . |
| 22 | They agreed that the letter about which Clarissa was so upset must be from the War Office , and Peregrine said it made him feel almost cowardly to have survived the German breakthrough , the evacuation of the beaches and now this latest blow on the very day the capitulation of France was announced . |
| 23 | It could only be from Mrs Browning . |
| 24 | You can imagine what an outcry there 'd be from women if we made some such generalisation about them , but we men are supposed to take this shit . ’ |
| 25 | One in 10 of last year 's 72,000 visitors was Japanese , so the trust has introduced information leaflets written in their native language in the expectation that among 87,000 visitors this year , at least 14 per cent will be from Japan . |
| 26 | It is offering unlimited loans said to be from Global Finance Corporation , of Delaware , America . |
| 27 | Occlusion bodies ( OBs ) can be from a few hundred nanometres to several micrometres across and these viruses can therefore easily be seen under the light microscope , which greatly aids diagnosis . |
| 28 | However , the addition of these fats has not been universally accepted and some members of the EC and the US maintain that the cacao portion of chocolate , which includes cocoa butter , must be from pure cacao nib , which contains approximately 55 per cent true cocoa , otherwise the product must be described as chocolate flavoured . |
| 29 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 30 | Is it because they take in a smaller quantity of vapour or tablet dust ? and how far does the vial have to be from the nose before the dose is inactive ? |