Example sentences of "be from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're from south of the river ? ’ |
| 2 | Er when you canvass , Oh you 're from focus , and they come out with those focus speak , so Frank , in the leaflet , oh he 's one of those , he 's he 's councillor so-and-so 's friend , we 'll be able to vote for him . |
| 3 | They used to replace pepper when its price was high , and were called Guinea pepper because they are from West Africa . |
| 4 | These buildings are now almost equally at risk from insensitive conversion as they are from demolition because a softening in the attitude of local planning authorities towards proposals for change of use of agricultural buildings has recently been encouraged by central government in an attempt to ameliorate the worsening financial circumstances of farmers . |
| 5 | The other submissions are from Life Science 7% and from Agriculture and Food Science 5% . |
| 6 | As far away from bleeping techno ambience as they are from indie grunge guitars , their debut EP , ‘ This Is Freaky Realistic ’ , strides boldly across four decades ( from Dylan to Da Lench Mob ) , musical genres ( funk , rock , folk , hip-hop and pop ) , and heads off into some hitherto uncharted dimension . |
| 7 | they announce in the room we are from video such and such , you know and just looked at me , this black man explained everything to everybody else and then the guy went over and sat down and explained it all again just blind |
| 8 | Over a third of smoking induced deaths are from lung cancer and another quarter are from chronic obstructive lung disease — bronchitis and emphysema . |
| 9 | Clearly , the more successful and popular the artist , the greater demands there are from TV radio and the press while the promotional video will also be sought after by the media . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ If you look in any of the farming magazines , the majority of the full-page ads are from drug companies . |
| 11 | The theories of pragmatic language use are from philosophy rather than linguistics , and the examples used are invented and stylized . |
| 12 | After consulting with financial experts in the City of London , the researchers , who are from University College London , Queen Mary & Westfield College , Imperial College and City University , have decided to take options pricing as a starting point for their project . |
| 13 | All of my fish are from South America and although I find fish from other parts of the world attractive , I have never had any desire to keep them until I saw a Myxocyprinus asiaticus . |
| 14 | ( The effects of collection size have been little mentioned by writers on online catalogues , perhaps because many of the writers are from North America and are used to university libraries which are larger than many national collections . ) |
| 15 | Six of the listed mosaics are from Chadworth ; seven are from Newton St.Loe ; four are from North Leigh ; four are from Stonesfield ; seven are from Withington ; and at least ten ( nearer twenty , if fragments are accounted for ) from Woodchester . |
| 16 | ‘ The materials used are from building sites and they 're all associated with destruction . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ ABTA requires an operator to bond total turnover whether it falls within the scope of the Directive or not , ’ says Highlife 's Hilton Pyle , ‘ and we do n't dabble in client insurance , as more than 80 per cent of sales are from travel agents , and we do n't want to take away their premiums . |
| 18 | Hand-painted in bright Mediterranean colours these pots are from Artisan . |
| 19 | If the cheapest supplies are from gas , they will purchase gas ; if it is coal , I would expect them to use coal-fired methods . |
| 20 | Again , file extensions are useful for identifying the package used : DOC files are from word processors , DBF , DB and the like are from database management systems , and the WKS , WK1 , WKT family denote worksheets produced with a spreadsheet . |
| 21 | Rather than having to remove the children from them , to have more resources at our disposal , to either help erm parents to develop better parenting skills , or erm I mean , because a lot of the problems again are from poverty , a lot of the pressures are from poverty . |
| 22 | Rather than having to remove the children from them , to have more resources at our disposal , to either help erm parents to develop better parenting skills , or erm I mean , because a lot of the problems again are from poverty , a lot of the pressures are from poverty . |
| 23 | The texts are from Ulpian 's work on trusts , and the immediate context some constitutions of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 24 | Again , file extensions are useful for identifying the package used : DOC files are from word processors , DBF , DB and the like are from database management systems , and the WKS , WK1 , WKT family denote worksheets produced with a spreadsheet . |
| 25 | The Chancery , i.e. the Chancellor 's office , has a power ( Statute of Westminster II 1285 ) of framing new writs in cansimili casu — i.e. to meet new cases sufficiently like those for which writs already exist — and new writs are from time to time framed . |
| 26 | Such casualties are from time to time inevitable , and argue for a set of partnerships rather than just one . |
| 27 | At initial enrolment all students shall sign an undertaking to comply with the Charter , Statutes , Ordinances and Regulations of the University as are from time to time in force . |
| 28 | Students who are provisionally enrolled are subject to the Charter , Statutes , Ordinances and Regulations of the University as are from time to time in force . |
| 29 | ‘ I undertake , as a Student of the University , to comply with the Charter , Statutes , Ordinances , Regulations and Rules of the University as are from time to time in force ’ . |
| 30 | The statute only vests in the agency ( with some exceptions ) the state-owned assets of such former state enterprises which have already been converted into companies ; further , such part of the equity of other companies which was vested in the state before coming into force of the statute of conversion and which are still in state ownership ; finally , assets remaining in state ownership after the liquidation of state enterprises and any other assets which are from time to time vested in the agency by separate legislation or a resolution of parliament . |