Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] from a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 There was grass and vegetation in her left hand ; her maternity smock was bloodstained from a stab wound in the side of the neck .
3 His eyes were an astounding blue and his complexion was ruddy from a life spent mostly at sea .
4 The common law was opposed to actions in tort and the landlord was immune from a tort action in respect of dangerous premises ( Cavalier v Pope [ 1906 ] AC 428 ) .
5 And even though his kiss was far from a lover 's caress , she felt her body respond , acting as though it had broken free from the control of her mind , curving into him , begging for more of his savage domination .
6 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 .
7 The trip was educational from a golfing point of view .
8 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 !
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