Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 2 | " A small part , " 90 entire pennies and a few fragments , was recovered by the Scottish Exchequer and were mostly from the reign of Eadgar with others from Athelstan , Edmund , Eodred and Eadwig . |
| 3 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 4 | They were away from the main road , walking briskly across cul-de-sacs , and through the small , linking passageways , between the wide , high-fenced gardens of the area . |
| 5 | The interview-rooms were away from the main police station . |
| 6 | But they were away from the rocks . |
| 7 | Nearly all the children were away from the bus by now — except for one , slower than the rest . |
| 8 | It seems he surprised Clare gazing lovingly at a photograph of a man whilst you were away from the table . |
| 9 | They both looked relaxed , an easy familiarity between them now that they were away from the office and cut free from the restrictions of boss and secretary . |
| 10 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
| 11 | These four were not from the top trialists and , apart from the top two pairs , the rest will go into the eight . |
| 12 | Now I had a pair who were not from the same parents and who seemed fairly suited . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 14 | He taught English at the Bredon Hill Middle School near Evesham , but was suspended from his duties when the allegations were made about his dealings with youngsters , who were not from the school . |
| 15 | Unauthorised absentees were largely from the senior years S5 and S6 , in November : 15% of S5 were absent without authorisation and 12% of S6 . |
| 16 | The close identity between fans and their club has weakened as football has become big business and as the players , who were once from the same working-class community as the fans , have become rich superstars . |
| 17 | One group of sixteen came from Ballyvourney by bus , another smaller group came from Ballinspittle and there were more from the city . |
| 18 | Two schools for the deaf which were opened in the 1900s were both from the start to establish a pure oralist tradition . |
| 19 | The boys were also from the same home . |
| 20 | Guest vocal stars were often from the States and of the sex-calibre of Frank Sinatra . |
| 21 | The short workings were mainly from the London end , hence their allocation to Brixton Hill . |
| 22 | A mood of trust began to emerge , and an agreed formula began to evolve , although the concessions were mainly from the British . |
| 23 | You did n't have to be a genius to work out they were n't from the Lord 's Day Observance Society . |
| 24 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 25 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 26 | I believe that truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 27 | Truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 28 | T. B. You 'd have sergeants who liked to drink and he 'd have a constable in his section who knew where to get this drink , but normally amongst the sergeants , you were apart from the constables . |
| 29 | As it were apart from the bottled water that the gentleman there buys . |
| 30 | Such features are not consistent with the idea that the peninsula was built by longshore drift from the east , unless such drift was active only for short periods while during the intervening time the drift was predominantly from the west . |