Example sentences of "[was/were] from the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this purpose Marx and Engels had to show just how different primitive societies were from the type of society their readers knew . |
| 2 | The farther away they were from the centre of authority the easier it was . |
| 3 | Those medals were from the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 5 | They did this over two weeks , but there was no means of knowing the energies of the neutrons , the essential information that would tell them whether they were from the fusion of deuterium and be the final proof . |
| 6 | The final reversal came with the publication of two seminal books , an article and a film ; and again it was from the direction of psychoanalysis that the change came . |
| 7 | The third change was from the culture of death to the culture of life . |
| 8 | Since most of the surplus food was from the lowlands with irrigation water originating in the highlands , widespread deforestation in the latter areas had had very serious effects upon the ability of South Korea to feed itself . |
| 9 | A further freedom was from the thrall of death — whose sting is fear , through Christ we see that death is not final . |
| 10 | There was a window open on the third floor , but marks consistent with the rubber-soled shoes he was wearing suggested that it was from the parapet in front of the four dormer windows in the roof . |