Example sentences of "[noun] be from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vegetables are from the garden or locally grown and bread and rolls are home-baked . |
| 2 | The sketches are from the travel diaries of the late Sir Peter Scott , founder of Martin Mere Wildfowl Trust at Burscough . |
| 3 | We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team . |
| 4 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless the flaw in the mirror suggests that all specular images are from the start marked by their passage through an ‘ imperfect ’ female discourse . |
| 6 | Approximately half the force were from the Commonwealth — Aussies , Canadians , New Zealanders , South Africans , Rhodesians and even from as far afield as Hong Kong , Fiji and the West Indies , this all made for healthy competition . |
| 7 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |
| 8 | As the ‘ laar ’ ( breath ) of wind is from the south east , I head slowly up the western shore , knowing that , with the ebbing tide , there will be a few seals hauled out on the rocks . |
| 9 | Unexpectedly peaceful gardens with Delphinium called Johnson 's Blue , some mauve-white and cobalt Campanula ; peonies ; poppies ; trefoils in brilliant mauve ; scents of lavender and musk rose ; four phallic cypress bushes , two of acid-green-yellow , two of dark green ; on the tower , eyeless turrets each with a little pennanted wind-vane , the wind is from the west and the flag flies , brilliant yellow predominating , a ship with sails filled , a cross in black and red , and an antlered deer 's head ; in the bright , southern lee of the castle 's core , long buildings roofed with tiny slates , stepped corners ; the comfort of a loosely-enclosed , highly aromatic rose-garden ; a peony walk , a wall of Euphorbia ; in the reaches of the garden , oasal recesses , stone steps leading up to stone seats ; a bee visited along thick heavy honeysuckle ; rectangular stone troughs , abundant and velvet with flowering plants ; old walls placid with centuries of absorbed heat from the sun ; a holly tree : did Cawdor once contain all the seven sacred trees from the Celtic grove ? |
| 10 | If the pointer moves right , wind is from the right . |
| 11 | If L/R pointer moves left , wind is from the left . |
| 12 | The main stride is from the elbow or knee , with the humerus ( upper arm or femur ) or thigh projecting outwards . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The following extract is from the opening pages of With Peter and Susan , the McKee Readers , book 3 ( London : Nelson — no date , although from the illustrations it appears to be a pre-war reader . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | at the college Margaret where Clare went to the other day they had a notice saying about bicycle theft 's from the college |
| 17 | Punjab , the country 's biggest province , is pleased : he is a Punjabi , whereas Mr Ishaq is from the North West Frontier Province . |
| 18 | The entrance is from the north , with two quaint 17th century windows with rounded heads . |
| 19 | To the right of the main buildings there was an open veranda or gallery with balusters and a sloping floor and entry was from the house . |
| 20 | On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It meant also that ITV companies were from the start a kind of conglomerate — by definition . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If the answer is ‘ Yes ’ the exit is from the bottom of the lozenge to the next job rectangle in the network . |
| 25 | If the answer is ‘ Yes ’ the exit is from the bottom of the lozenge to the next job rectangle in the network . |
| 26 | If ‘ No ’ the exit is from the side of the lozenge , looping back to the input side of the job rectangle to repeat it . |
| 27 | If ‘ No ’ the exit is from the side of the lozenge , looping back to the input side of the job rectangle to repeat it . |
| 28 | ‘ This girl 's from the Land of the Twin Rivers . ’ |
| 29 | As most of the noise from an engine is from the fan this gives the impression that the engine has speeded up . |
| 30 | 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 . |