Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although welcoming my friend 's generosity in giving me a pair , I did not want to mate brother and sister if possible especially as these were already young from a brother and sister pairing , so I did not intend to use the young male unless I could find an unrelated mate for him . |
| 2 | Her cheeks were already aglow from a combination of the heat and the exhilaration of being the centre of attention , and this had lent an extra , youthful radiance to her beauty . |
| 3 | You were as indistinguishable from a distance as one of these blades of grass , and who was to say more important ? |
| 4 | General Karl Steiner , carried in by two SS men , was already dead from a heart attack , the only good thing about the entire proceedings . |
| 5 | D.G. Rossetti did not have a Christian conscience , but he was not immune from a sense of guilt about the long deferment of his marriage to his model and mistress , Lizzy Siddal . |
| 6 | It was quite clear from a briefing paper from the LCD that controlling costs meant cutting them . |
| 7 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 8 | There the interior was almost indistinguishable from a church : the nave was the waiting-room complete with seats arranged like pews , memorials on the walls , chandeliers suspended from exposed rafters ; the chancel was the booking office , with an information kiosk in the crossing ; the apses were the entrance lobby and the route to the tracks . |
| 9 | The criterion was that , if a particular business was essentially pan-European from a production standpoint , it should go into the new grouping . |
| 10 | Wickham wished he knew the truth about the story Sniffy Wilson had brought out of Gorstone , but that would take time , if not prove impossible , to check ; and anyway , a plot plotted was very far from a murder carried out . |