Example sentences of "[prep] be from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other Briton , John Steele , is thought to be from the Home Counties . |
| 2 | If anyone claims to be from the Gas Board , Electricity Board , council , or any such body , keep the chain on the door and tell them that you only admit such people by appointment . |
| 3 | She told them that a man had knocked on the door of her home in Hereford claiming to be from the council . |
| 4 | The presence of a rival could blight his own prospects , and if he happened to be from the locality , then Owen O'Clery told himself he might as well be moving on immediately . |
| 5 | Any land attack had to be from the west and north , entailing a prior crossing of Tweed , here quite wide . |
| 6 | TWO MEN claiming to be from the electricity board tricked their way into the home of an elderly Essex woman and stole an antique carriage clock and jewellery , police have revealed . |
| 7 | He 's a rare well preserved example of a person originally thought to be from the bronze age . |
| 8 | a sick child ( preferably appearing to be from the past , ie. black and white photo/line drawing ) |
| 9 | The unit , believed to be from the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) — the largest of the insurgent Moslem groups — |
| 10 | From your photograph , the flies appear to be from the family Muscidae , related to the house flies Musca domestica and Fannia canicularis , but the fungus has bloated their abdomens , making precise identification difficult . |
| 11 | One day in September , Flora 's doctor received a call from someone who claimed to be from the Family Health Services Authority , asking for details from his files , suspicious , he gave nothing away . |
| 12 | The one of Otakar I is superb and is said to be from the hand of the master himself . |
| 13 | Is it because they take in a smaller quantity of vapour or tablet dust ? and how far does the vial have to be from the nose before the dose is inactive ? |
| 14 | Occasionally some of the other ranks could be seen driving old Chevvies ( they brought their own cars with them rather than risk going to local garages ) with number plates proclaiming their owners to be from the Potato or Sunshine States or , ironically , from the Land of the Free . |
| 15 | Pretend to be from the employment agency . ’ |
| 16 | PRICELESS gems said to be from the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen were stolen from a car in south London yesterday . |
| 17 | But again , it had always got to be from the Co-op , because it had come through mum you see , really and er sh I say she is eighty-two . |
| 18 | In China , criticism of the bureaucracy has generally not been through formal representative assemblies , councils and congresses but through ‘ mass campaigns ’ , though the direction of influence has tended to be from the party leadership to the masses through propaganda , political education and mobilization exercises rather than from the masses upwards . |