Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] from [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's retreat did not mean , for instance , that pupils were free from compulsion to study some technology and a modern foreign language after 14 but that short courses , as the Secretary of State announced , and combined courses as well as syllabuses for qualification other than the GCSE would become available . |
| 2 | The longhouses were ablaze from gable to gable now , and Dunan 's Hearthwares milled about them . |
| 3 | But some forest landowners were able from time to time to obtain from the Crown a grant of partial exemption from this supervision . |
| 4 | Although variations were apparent from site to site in relation to pre-existing environmental characteristics and intensity of use , the study highlighted some general trends with implications for management strategies . |
| 5 | We were there last weekend , they 'd say , and the elements were against us , but we were snug from head to toe in our rubber suits . |
| 6 | The latter pointed out that , while there was a general process of restructuring , the way it worked out in practice was different from case to case and that therefore it was pointless to search for highly regular patterns . |
| 7 | Patel was impermanent from moment of arrival till he played a foolishly loose semi-drive straight back to Tufnell . |
| 8 | When the body was naked , it was X-rayed from top to toe . |
| 9 | It was corrupt from top to bottom , and they were s They knew that it was going on . |
| 10 | There was a mixture of the formal and the informal about it ; the Keeper of Zoology in the 1810s was wont from time to time to leap over the stuffed animals . |
| 11 | The defence argument was that this was a preliminary to ‘ conventional ’ intercourse , and that if the husband was exempt from liability for rape , he should equally be exempt from liability for indecent assault . |
| 12 | The mayor , who had a reputation for trendiness , wore a pale yellow suit under his chain of office ; his lady was in pink flowers and a wide-brimmed white straw hat ; the royal relative was orange from head to foot . |
| 13 | The march , the first ever organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( NICRA ) , involved 2,500 protesters and was peaceful from start to finish . |
| 14 | The liturgical reforms , the encouragement he gave to biblical scholarship , the beginning he made , for whatever reason , at internationalizing the college of cardinals , his call to bishops to send their clergy as missionaries to Latin America and , more particularly , to Africa , these all suggest a pope who was far from conservative in outlook . |