Example sentences of "[noun] was from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the south , that is Denmark and southern Sweden , the influence was from the Baltic : Holland , northern Germany and Poland . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A complex lighting system had once worked , but now the only illumination was from the gaps in the roof which allowed streams of sunlight to pour through into the empty , lifeless environment . |
| 7 | The top cutting was from the Sunday Times ; underneath , she spotted items from both the Guardian and the Sun . |
| 8 | Basil 's widowed father , a natural son of the Earl of Sandwich , formed part of Wordsworth 's circle of London friends , and the proposal that Wordsworth and Dorothy should become responsible for the child was from the beginning an important part of their plans for life at Racedown . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Clare 's cry was from the heart . |
| 11 | He was alarmed at the possibility that this lad was from the village and that the village was rife with gossip . |
| 12 | The decline into the poverty of the inter-war years was from the heights into the depths . |
| 13 | Hence the likelihood that his diaries would have contained material of a secret nature which needed to be suppressed by legal and governmental intervention was from the outset slight . |
| 14 | The Antipodean gentleman was from the Textile Museum in Melbourne which is where the carpet is now displayed . |
| 15 | The nearest clean water was from the standpipe in the churchyard ; they did not like to wash their finds there , because the water was for the flowers on the graves , but Martha fetched some in a bucket . |
| 16 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 17 | ‘ The girl named Shirley was from the village . |
| 18 | The first leg of the voyage was from the Tyne to Bergen in Norway , where a second group of trainees , from England took over to sail her back across the North Sea . |
| 19 | In the 1950s , the bulk of immigration was from the Caribbean , the men coming first , followed by their families . |
| 20 | The Association 's choice of name was from the outset controversial . |
| 21 | The second outing was from the car park on Chalk Hill . |
| 22 | One was from the editor , regretting that there were no vacancies , the other was from the news editor , asking him to come to Dublin immediately for an interview . |
| 23 | King Hussein of Jordan was from the outset , much as during the Iran-Iraq war , a supporter of Iraq . |
| 24 | The only valuation evidence was from the valuer called by the defendants ( who was not cross-examined ) and who put the value of Caliban at between $2.1 and $2.3m . |
| 25 | Iconoclasm was from the outset inspired by the government . |
| 26 | It was often difficult , for the experimenter , to judge the exact position of the target in relation to the metre rule and precisely how far the subject 's finger was from the target . |
| 27 | Founded in 1883 , its relationship to the cooperative movement was from the start problematic . |
| 28 | Our guide was from the Samburu tribe ; he was tall and muscular , with painted skin and dyed hair , dressed only in loin cloth and a thick , red robe . |
| 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 | He said that at times it appeared that the only effective opposition to what was becoming a single-party government was from the press . |