Example sentences of "had been from " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the previous imports had been from Germany , but one of the most influential imports of the early 1960s was made by the Elsdens , who looked to Holland for their import . |
| 2 | For her it had been from the tender age of five , when her own brother and male ‘ friends ’ of a single-parent family abused her . |
| 3 | His main interest was foreign and defence policy ( for a time he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , as he had been from 1940 to 1945 ) . |
| 4 | But now the human nature of Jesus was not only perfect — as it had been from conception — it was a risen humanity beyond death . |
| 5 | The call had been for Hank , and had been from one of his classmates , who said that he just wanted to inquire how Hank was . |
| 6 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 7 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
| 8 | The famous English institutions of learning , the universities and colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and the colleges at Eton and Winchester were specifically exempted from the provisions of the Act , as they had been from earlier legislation . |
| 9 | It had been from their lips that I first heard uttered the expression avare comme un juif , followed by a vicious attack on the only Jewish family in their village to have survived the war and returned to claim their old house . |
| 10 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
| 11 | Without a word having been spoken about it , it was settled between us , I knew ; it had been from the beginning . |
| 12 | It is true to say that the cars are largely restricted to three or four models , but my own insistence had been from the outset that no obligation to use the scheme should be imposed on the disabled , nor any obligation to a particular model . |
| 13 | John Baring 's father had been from 1882 senior partner in the merchant bank of Baring Brothers , and he himself joined the firm on leaving Cambridge , served his apprenticeship as a clerk , travelled widely in North and South America , and was made a full partner early in 1890 . |
| 14 | The original answer had been from a woman and the French had baffled her . |
| 15 | Most purchasers had been from south-east Asia . |
| 16 | Their venture had been from start to finish " planned by the woollen interests , financed from the profits of that trade and built predominantly for the needs of the woollen industry . " |
| 17 | Also , although there were marked fluctuations in the number of admissions from year to year , it is clear that from about 1490 the numbers of those admitted at York were consistently lower than they had been from the mid 1380s to the 1440s . |
| 18 | Their increase in money wages had been from 21s 9d to 36s ( £1.08 — £1.80 ) , an increase of 66 per cent . |
| 19 | He was also , as Peter Rogers put it , ‘ a bit of a show off ’ , discussing art and the world scene in an off-screen moment that was as different from a ‘ Carry On ’ routine as Moby Dick had been from Peter Pan . |
| 20 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 21 | Ballistics experts proved the pellets had been from two air rifles found in Dines ' car . |