Example sentences of "[be] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If he retires then , it will only be from the public arena . |
| 3 | out of the seven or eight records played in each Radio I half-hour , four or five will be from the playlist . |
| 4 | The badge looks to be from the '50s . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | The Bramante building — it was the architect 's first work in Milan — is thought to be from the finest period of the Lombardy Renaissance and is a masterpiece of space and depth , the more so because of Bramante 's superb use of a perspective fresco beyond the High Altar . |
| 11 | a sick child ( preferably appearing to be from the past , ie. black and white photo/line drawing ) |
| 12 | The one of Otakar I is superb and is said to be from the hand of the master himself . |
| 13 | Once you 've decided on the amount you need to borrow , you can get an indication of what the gross monthly repayments are likely to be from the tables provided in this booklet for amounts up to £5,000 . |
| 14 | bring into active play all the possible forces , schools and clubs , etc. , to neutralise and overcome the pernicious influences of ‘ blind alley ’ employment , to insure that , however uneducative and useless a juvenile 's job may be from the point of view of the future , he shall not on that account emerge from it unfitted for any other kind of labour . |
| 15 | The Education Reform Act required college governing bodies to be dominated by employer interests , and it is normally a requirement that at least 50% of the attendance at any governing body meeting should be from the employer sector . |
| 16 | Relief there will be from the grind of the daily pile of constituency correspondence and the regular weekend surgeries . |
| 17 | ‘ That must be from the men we wounded in the fight . ’ |
| 18 | Or why is it that five men , brothers , can all be from the same womb , with the same father too , peas in the same pod ( if you prefer that expression ) yet can each be quite an individualist in all things , from habits to politics ? |
| 19 | ‘ I hope that when I write to you again it will be from the palace at Edinburgh . ’ |
| 20 | If anyone claims to be from the Gas Board , Electricity Board , council , or any such body , keep the chain on the door and tell them that you only admit such people by appointment . |
| 21 | The roofs were most often not their own : long since , the community had drawn in from its perimeter , sharing its water , its food and its warmth , and distancing itself so far as might be from the walls and the thud of the cannon . |
| 22 | There are two bells hung from a stout beam , thought to be from the old church , and eight tubular bells given in 1888 . |
| 23 | The tabloid English of newspapers is a good example of how different the written word can be from the spoken . |
| 24 | It is hard to tell what these powers might be from the 1992 Conservative manifesto , a model of vagueness . |
| 25 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 26 | A man claiming to be from the IRA gave a coded warning to a news agency 45 minutes before the explosion . |
| 27 | Any land attack had to be from the west and north , entailing a prior crossing of Tweed , here quite wide . |
| 28 | A dull cool summer it had been , as different as could be from the year before . |
| 29 | Alternatively it may be suggested that the metal alloys from which the bracteates and their loops were made need not always be from the same source . |
| 30 | PRICELESS gems said to be from the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen were stolen from a car in south London yesterday . |