Example sentences of "[is] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 2 | I can see now a typical speech of Crossman 's from the back benches . |
| 3 | Identifying her attitude to the emerging democracies of the Soviet bloc , disarmament , South Africa , the environment , Third World debt , and the EC , Mr Kinnock said : ‘ Margaret Thatcher shows that she 's from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 4 | Eurodisney , though , is already under construction , which Eurotunnel was not when it was floated , and as one stockbroking analyst commented : ‘ It is on budget , overground and only two-and-a-half year 's from completion . ’ |
| 5 | I suppose he 's from Ibrahim 's country , but I never asked . |
| 6 | I ask her if it 's from Betty , her best friend in Scotland , but she says it ai n't . |
| 7 | I suppose that 's where he 's from . |
| 8 | Willie Ninja , World Champion ‘ Voguer ’ , arrived at the British Style Show in this waistcoat commissioned by Pimm 's from Tom Gilbey . |
| 9 | Iain Macleod 's acceleration of the withdrawal timetables was being implemented : the independence of Tanganyika was brought forward from 1970 to December 1961 ; Uganda 's from 1973 to October 1962 ; Kenya 's from 1975 to December 1963 . |
| 10 | Iain Macleod 's acceleration of the withdrawal timetables was being implemented : the independence of Tanganyika was brought forward from 1970 to December 1961 ; Uganda 's from 1973 to October 1962 ; Kenya 's from 1975 to December 1963 . |
| 11 | Many of the 26,500 names would therefore love to follow the 6,000 who have already shaken the dust of Lloyd 's from their feet these past three years . |
| 12 | It 's from our own bees . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's from Mr Scrape , ’ she shouted . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's from Low Riding . ’ |
| 15 | The inspiration is from me and her , but first of all it 's from her . ’ |
| 16 | That 's not just gossip ; it 's from her own mouth . |
| 17 | Viewed from the front it could be any make ; it 's from behind that it establishes a look of its own with a high , rounded tail . |
| 18 | Earl , a classmate of North 's from the Naval Academy , was privy to quite a lot , including the diversion . |
| 19 | I 'm thinking she should o ’ been called the Girl from County Tyrone , as that 's where she 's from in reality . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's from Bella Kropotkin . ’ |
| 21 | Pope also confirmed that Miller was widely read in high circles because when staying in Bath in 1743 , he wrote to the Earl of Marchmont about a meeting there with Lord Chesterfield who had told him that ‘ your Lordship is got a-head of all the Gardening Lords and that you have distanc 'd Lord Burlington and Lord Cobham in the true scientific parts , but he is studying before you and has here lying before him those Thesarurus 's from which he affirms you draw all knowledge , Miller 's Dictionaries . ’ |
| 22 | During his time the Kamara has become the accepted Club base in ‘ Ag Nik ’ , partly because of its central position seven minutes form the beach and about three minutes from the ‘ West End ’ , and partly because the bar here is a focal meeting point for 18–30 's from all over the resort . |
| 23 | In the aquarium , you will see a number of aquatic tortoises , including Malayan Box , Reeve 's from Asia , Helmeted from Africa , Caspian and Pond Terrapins from Europe and Three-toed Box from North America . |
| 24 | Penny was a feminist friend of Robyn 's from the Sociology Department , with whom she played squash once a week . |
| 25 | I thought it might be better if she went there — she 's from Tallahassee , as you no doubt know — rather than myself , since there 's an unfortunate history of litigation and unpleasantness between the Seal Court family and the Norfolk one . |
| 26 | It 's from a note to William Rossetti — the MS is in Tallahassee — about a poem he published for her . |
| 27 | He 's from Nottingham and he 's good . |
| 28 | She held out two half-crowns , pointing to them separately and saying , ‘ That 's from Father and that one 's from me . ’ |
| 29 | She held out two half-crowns , pointing to them separately and saying , ‘ That 's from Father and that one 's from me . ’ |
| 30 | The titles of Marjorie Rosen 's Popcorn Venus ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell 's from Reverence to Rape ( 1974 ) indicate this concern with images ; both books aim at giving a survey of representations of women in Hollywood film . |