Example sentences of "it was from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 2 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 3 | It was from the ranks of Oxbridge enthusiasts that these commentators were mostly drawn . |
| 4 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 5 | There was a faint glimmer of light from her window ; it was from the night-light which she kept burning . |
| 6 | It was one of those rare occasions when a covert operation could be examined in the full glare of publicity and it showed what a foolhardy idea it was from the start for , even if Crabb had returned safely , it is unlikely he could have brought back enough information to have justified the risk in the first place . |
| 7 | But the sun 's rays reflected wickedly off the intense blue waters of the lake , so it was from the small window of the launch that I — a different creature by far — watched the pyramid shape of Taquile drift by , and the few kilometres of Amantani come into view . |
| 8 | Even more important however , it was from the eastern window here that Jaroslav Martinic and William Slavata , both fanatical Catholics and Habsburg supporters , were defenestrated by members of the Bohemian Protestant Estates in 1618 ( see p. 10 ) . |
| 9 | Platzer again was responsible for the statuary and it was from the Platzer workshop too , in the mid-18C , that the Jesuit saints flanking the nave came . |
| 10 | SAVE 's contention was that the entrance to a park was of crucial importance , however distant it was from the house itself . |
| 11 | But it was from the beginning an erotic exercise . |
| 12 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 13 | It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory . |
| 14 | It was from the research and development section of the famous mint manufacturers . |
| 15 | It was from the caravan that he ran People Against Nuclear Power , with its acronym PANUP , the small organization of which he was both founder and president . |
| 16 | It was from the Toronto Golf Club in 1985 and headed |
| 17 | If Italy provided Ramsay with the polish of sophistication and a kind of classical elegance , it was from the French that he learnt a quality he was to make quite his own : gracefulness . |
| 18 | In Christ all things have become new , and yet everything remains as it was from the beginning … ’ |
| 19 | It was from the Machine Knitters Association of Western Australia , inviting me to be the principal demonstrator at their seminar in January 1992 . |
| 20 | It was from the USA that the ‘ group system ’ of investigation now advocated by ICAO originated as , to a certain extent , did the present format of ICAO aircraft accident reports . |
| 21 | A year later another theft took place , and , once again , it was from the store . |
| 22 | It was from the people gathered on the rim of this amphitheatre in the dunes that the sighing came . |
| 23 | The final reversal came with the publication of two seminal books , an article and a film ; and again it was from the direction of psychoanalysis that the change came . |
| 24 | It was from the late Sir Harry Luke , author of that delightful and civilized book The Tenth Muse ( Putnam , 1954 , and revised edition 1962 ) that I learned of the beauty of mulberry ices . |
| 25 | ( It was from the time of this incarceration that he developed his chest and joint complaints . ) |
| 26 | Yet it was from the delirious welcome accorded to him by his partisans in the Madrid streets that Ferdinand VII formed his conceptions of political power ; in 1814 he was to use the Aranjuez mixture of plebeian loyalty and army support in order to defeat the liberal constitution . |
| 27 | It was from the same haunts as the tarsier that the original " Wild Man of Borneo " — the orangutan , or " man of the forest " — was to reveal himself : a creature so vulnerable , so resonant with human emotion , that we could not fail to see ourselves in him . |
| 28 | Fortunately it was from the Bar Parlour . |
| 29 | And it was from the beginning the case in a more general Marxist tradition , which has been especially active and , it should be stressed , diverse in recent years . |
| 30 | It was from the card inside that she had learned their first names : Teodor and Sophie . |