Example sentences of "[noun] was from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cutlery was from the same state factory and had the same design and so did the plates , the menu , and the waiters . |
| 2 | Sources from both clubs said they understood the new bid was from the same source , but an Argyll spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the company was behind the bid . |
| 3 | The only heating in the Waaf huts was from the temperamental iron stove in the centre of each hut , and anyone who has had to struggle with one of these objects will appreciate what I 'm talking about . |
| 4 | At the back of her mind , it occurred to her how different real crime was from the glamorous violence portrayed on the screen . |
| 5 | She chose to ignore him again , paddling on in silence , not knowing if the tension in her shoulders was from the unfamiliar strain of the exercise or from the unfamiliar strain of having eyes probe one 's back with habitual cynicism . |
| 6 | That meant that Goodwin was from the working class and had made it . |
| 7 | As is now widely known , when , on 2 September , Ho Chi Minh made his declaration of Vietnamese independence , his opening and acknowledged quotation was from the American original . |
| 8 | Only one of the control subjects was similarly positive , and this sample was from the upper lobe of a lung with clear apical capping suggestive of old asymptomatic infection with M tuberculosis . |
| 9 | The other was from the Vice President in charge of Overseas ' Operations , thanking him for his personal contribution to the expansion of European Component Operations . |
| 10 | You said the man was from the Iranian Embassy 's commercial section ? ’ |
| 11 | Mrs Balanchine was from the small village of Renwick , about ten miles north of Penrith . |
| 12 | The Provisionals ' victim was from the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast . |
| 13 | Whereas Farah Aydid was a member of the Habar Gedir sub-clan of the Hawiye tribe ( which predominated in the USC ) , Mahdi Mohammed was from the Abgal sub-clan of the Hawiyes . |