Example sentences of "[was/were] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other parties represented were from the France unie grouping , from either the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche ( MRG — Left Radical Movement , Emile Zuccarelli pres. ) or the Union pour la démocratie française ( UDF — Union for French Democracy , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ch . ) . |
| 2 | Cinema admissions had indeed increased as people sought escape at the movies from the horrors of war , and the flow of French and Italian imports had been disrupted , but the screen-time made available had been almost totally absorbed by American pictures : by 1918 some 80 per cent or films shown in Britain were from the US . |
| 3 | For this purpose Marx and Engels had to show just how different primitive societies were from the type of society their readers knew . |
| 4 | The farther away they were from the centre of authority the easier it was . |
| 5 | Those medals were from the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 7 | The present search was concerned with those theses with identifiable ‘ D ’ numbers — 142 in total — of which 139 were from the Will listing . |
| 8 | The largest proportion were from the West Indies , Malaysia and Mauritius . |
| 9 | Nearly all its remaining MPs were from the coalfields and it looked once more like the Labour Representation Committee of the pre-war period . |
| 10 | The main office entrance and the entrance to the Foreign Secretary 's residence were from the court . |
| 11 | Standing side by side the men in suits were from the union , the men in overalls from the management . |
| 12 | The other children were from the south , all older than me and posher . |
| 13 | They were from the Lord Provost of Glasgow . |
| 14 | ‘ You said you were from the Ministry . ’ |
| 15 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 16 | In verses 5 and 6 Peter makes direct reference to the flood of judgment which came upon the earth in the days of Noah and at the end of the preceding verse 4 he writes of how the scoffers will say that ‘ all things continue as they were from the beginning of the CREATION . ’ |
| 17 | The new courts and departments established under the Tudors were from the beginning staffed by laymen : there was no question of clerical officials being appointed to the Courts of Wards or Augmentations . |
| 18 | Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine . |
| 19 | Out of the 30 battalions there , only four were from the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | This reflects the consensus in reports on economic evaluation and , as all the source studies were from the United Kingdom , the discount rate recommended by the Treasury . |
| 21 | He declined to give any personal details about the pair apart from saying they were from the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | In 1957 , 74 out of the top 100 firms were from the United States ; in 1972 the figure was 53 . |
| 23 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |
| 24 | The thrill of seeing Araminta in bathing dress , even in the distance , segregated as the gentlemen were from the ladies , made his heart race . |
| 25 | All but one of the 14 Cabinet members were from the HZDS ( including Ludovit Cernak , elected as a member of the Slovak National Party , who joined the HZDS after the election ) . |
| 26 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 27 | And they 'd been down the Lake District , they were from the Lake district . |
| 28 | They were from the North of England , working-class , unemployed but it was thought only temporarily . |
| 29 | The grandfather clock and Welsh dresser were from the antiques stall she once had in London 's Portabello Road market . |
| 30 | Some of them , hearing my camelmen speaking Somali , became increasingly threatening , asserting that they were from the Issa , a Somali tribe with whom they were then , as always , at war . |