Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [indef pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 2 | But , what I 'm saying is , if you , salesmen particularly get one , you 'll need one to get round the country your patch , but you need to get familiar with the towns up and down the country for deli , for delivery , cos your customers will talk about the area and you 're talking to someone from a transport café , you have n't got a clue where the towns are . |
| 3 | The minimum wage policy has been condemned by everyone from The Guardian to Goldman Sachs . |
| 4 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 5 | The storage building blocks are packaged to slide into modular shelving which can then be configured for anything from the desktop to the data centre . |
| 6 | Data files included punched cards ( as data files , not just for input ) ; the computer was dated , overloaded and likely to be replaced by one from a different manufacturer ; there was little real-time access to data ; management information was scarce ; there was little in the way of computerized records for Polytechnic students on non-modular courses , and that little was unintegrated with the modular system ; there were no benefits or access to data for offices besides the registry ; the file structures could no longer cope with the then size of the course ( 1,100 students ) ; and the data structures were arcane ( for example , over-zealous use of bit-packing ) . |
| 7 | As the carriages were successively condemned , the ‘ receiver ’ , who ran the railway , would buy up job lots and you never knew if you would be travelling in something from the Brecon & Merthyr , the London & South Western , or the Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith . |
| 8 | I knew why , they had the queer sensation that they were being addressed by someone from a bygone age . |
| 9 | Glamourous maybe , but years of staying away from home , and being accommodated in everything from a Seamans Mission to a Penthouse Suite , seriously dampens initial enthusiasm . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's still working on the theory that they were killed by someone from the neighbourhood who resented them and their prosperity . ’ |
| 11 | When a putative diagnosis of yaws is made in someone from an endemic area , on the strength of positive treponemal blood tests , it is customary to give a course of penicillin which would be adequate to treat latent syphilis should this have been the cause of the positive STS . |
| 12 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |