Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I realised they thought I was knackered from the same route they had just walked , I was speechless with indignation . |
| 2 | I was numb from the waist down and could n't feel anything . |
| 3 | But I 'm five feet dead and it would n't look so bad if I was narrow from the legs up . |
| 4 | On that Wednesday after Easter I was absent from the church . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew that I was gay from the age of seven . |
| 6 | I hated Vienna , because we now had several rooms and so I was further from the forest . |
| 7 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 8 | But I realized I was different from the Brazilians , and that was when I started to rediscover my own identity . ’ |
| 9 | While the large firms were busy in the 1980s compromising the quality of audit in the search for fatter fees from more lucrative work , ‘ the professional bodies to which these accountants belong — possibly under a certain amount of external pressure — produced accounting ‘ standards ’ which allowed the management of businesses to portray results which were remote from the truth' . |
| 10 | The Japanese Foreign Minister , Michio Watanabe , told Akashi that the government was prepared to pay a higher rate for refugee resettlement and for economic reconstruction operations , both of which were separate from the UNTAC budget . |
| 11 | Some time ago it was suggested that three east coast sites , at Brough-on-Humber , Caister-by-Yarmouth and Rochester , possessed late second or early third-century fortifications which were different from the general run of urban defences of this date . |
| 12 | Rugby in South Wales and football in central Scotland reflected a new sense of working-class cultural nationalism which was distinct from the bardic celebrations in Wales and the romanticism of readers of Sir Walter Scott and nostalgic expatriates . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal granted the injunctions on the ground that the extension had generated a second dispute , between the ISTC and the government , which was separate from the union 's dispute with the BSC , and not a trade dispute because the government was not the employer . |
| 14 | I shall home in on the social action programme and the declaration on racism and xenophobia , which was separate from the main treaty , but was signed at Maastricht . |
| 15 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 16 | If we were to believe the local paper reports then we would have to accept that The Smiths were attacked by hordes of outraged loyalists , which was far from the truth . |
| 17 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 18 | Apart from the delta , Turkey had to concede the right of merchant ships to pass through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles ( which was crucial from the point of view of Russian trade ) , and to surrender rather more significant territories in the eastern part of her empire ( because Russia was determined to control the eastern shore of the Black Sea and to enlarge her buffer zone around Georgia ) . |
| 19 | Newman and Newsholme displayed a high degree of self-consciousness about the place of sex within social relations , which was absent from the work of Kay and Chadwick . |
| 20 | If you look at the social service budget , we are actually putting into effect the new Children 's Act legislation , which was absent from the Labour budget entirely . |
| 21 | They knew also a Law Merchant which was different from the Common Law and had an international character , a law founded on the commercial customs of merchants and seafaring men of all nations . |
| 22 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 23 | ‘ Finally , a letter came which was different from the others . |
| 24 | California , which was exempt from the federal ruling that no state could adopt emission standards for new vehicles more stringent than the federal ones , passed the Pure Air Act of 1968 , which contained explicit emission standards for hydrocarbons , carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen for post-1970 new vehicles . |
| 25 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 26 | Nelly held her Mum 's hand while I dipped a sponge into the cold water jug and mopped her brow which was sweaty from the pain she was in . |
| 27 | Jane Fisk from Norfolk and Pauline Sharpe , Christine Hutchinson and Ann Weathers who were all from the London Course . |
| 28 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 29 | Raquel was about to introduce Liz , but she was absent from the room . |
| 30 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |