Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] from a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In country as in town , the aristocrat accepted — in theory at least-that wealth and position were indivisible from a commitment to the social good . |
| 2 | These were strictly extras ; he did n't even trust the IP people not to make a demonstration of some kind ; these were non-Danuese from a couple of malai islands one hundred kilometres north-east . |
| 3 | But the reason she fell so easily and so heavily would seem to be that she was light-headed from a mixture of drink and pills . |
| 4 | The case was instructive from a number of standpoints but particularly in the way it appears to demonstrate the ability of LM potencies to reach the parts which other potencies can not reach ! |
| 5 | I had one camera on Michael all the time and recorded him separately , using fewer cameras on the rest of the action , because it was impossible from a rehearsal outside the TV studios to anticipate the reactions . |
| 6 | The effect of this policy on the cost of living was evident from a report in August 1991 by the National Statistical Commission that consumer prices had risen by 144 per cent since October 1990 . |
| 7 | General George C. Marshall , the US Secretary of State , was far from a League of Nations idealist . |