Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No as far as I can re er as far as what 's been stated to me , I have n't heard the broadcast myself because I 'm here from early morning onwards , |
| 2 | ‘ Well , actually , Ace is from nineteen eighty-six , Benny is from the twenty-fifth century , and I 'm not from this planet at all . |
| 3 | Once I 'm back from this trip , I 'll live like a gentleman . |
| 4 | It could then be speculated that the high concentrations of α-linolenic acid ( which is exclusively from dietary origin ) , might be the result of a negative feed back effect upon delta-6 desaturase activity , mediated by an excess of docosahexaenoic acid ( C22:6n3 ) , the final product of this series . |
| 5 | You are not from this world , he says , and you came here in a metal ship which flew through the air . |
| 6 | Is it the truth that you are not from this world , but from another far away ? ’ |
| 7 | Now you 're not from this part of the country by the sound of it ? |
| 8 | You 're not from this area though are ya ? |
| 9 | The fall of the north was generally peaceful , with Masud arranging a series of local alliances with government militia leaders who were also from non-Pashtun minority groups . |
| 10 | It is a return to the capital for German-born Mr Nitschke , who was here from 1985–87 managing The Dorchester , where Regent had a management contract . |
| 11 | For high-pass walkers there is also from that road end a track up the spectacularly wild little valley of the Etzli which climbs up to the south . |
| 12 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 13 | They are apart from each other and part of each other . |
| 14 | Some of them you do n't have to do each week because they 're there from previous work on , on the site . |
| 15 | But of course these boys , these disgusting creatures , these street urchins unworthy of being called Neapolitan , they were not from this area at all , no , not at all . |
| 16 | It was as if they were indeed from another world : a happy world , a free and easy world . |
| 17 | There is also an old goods wagon at this spot , but it is not from this line . |
| 18 | It is only from some insistence , within some other social and cultural order , that signals should always be singular in dimension — indicating ‘ pure art ’ and the ‘ purely aesthetic ’ in manifestly specializing , and then both emphasizing and excluding , ways — that these historical and sociological complexities are resisted . |
| 19 | That 's where and he 's not from , he 's not from this end so had er no real interest for him I do n't think . |
| 20 | Any direction was as good as another — so long as it was away from that thing . |
| 21 | If there was one thing sure about it , it was that Isambard had abated nothing of his purpose , and if he had halted his experiment in terrorisation short of the act , it was not from any impulse of pity , but the result of a calculated probability that these methods would not get him what he wanted . |
| 22 | So , as I stood there on Hampstead Heath , I felt that it was just from that point of view that the single surviving Pinus sylvestris was intended to be seen . |
| 23 | Michael Sadleir suggested that it was partly from professional jealousy of his enormous popularity that Marryat 's contemporaries ‘ treated him with patronising tolerance as a jolly tarpaulin who told a rattling good story ’ . |
| 24 | There 's another one as well , and it was actually from this side , given away , but was n't received by this side . |
| 25 | It was far from plain sailing . |
| 26 | It was indeed from this position that the philosophical tradition of modern Europe began . |
| 27 | It was only from idle curiosity that she went into Nannie 's room . |
| 28 | His voice was pleasant and indicated that he was n't from this part of the country ; the South , she imagined . |
| 29 | Kolodziejczyk said that , at 52 , he was far from retiring age . |
| 30 | Thus when Charles gained his first crown on 9th October 768 , he was far from sole ruler or great emperor . |