Example sentences of "[pron] be from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line . |
| 2 | I am from the Scottish Region and a member of the Technical Crafts Section . |
| 3 | I am sorry that I had to deceive you just now ; I am from the Military Police Special Investigation Branch . ’ |
| 4 | he , he erm he started his speech by saying er you know what are the , what are the ten most frightening words in the , in , in the American language an and he said , the answer to his own question was I 'm from the federal government , I 'm here to help . |
| 5 | Well , the thing , to me environmental health , and I , and I 'm from the Environmental Health Services , |
| 6 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 7 | I 'm — I 'm from the wrong side of the tracks . ’ |
| 8 | If it is n't dated , how can you tell if yours is from the golden period ? |
| 9 | Only lot 10 failed to sell , probably due to its similarity to the two previous lots which were from the same series , and its slightly poorer condition . |
| 10 | From most points of the compass Pike o'Blisco has a fine pyramidal shape and can be approached from various directions , the easiest of which is from the Three Shire Stone on Wrynose Pass . |
| 11 | An inexpensive sweet Muscat which is from the Mediterranean coast of Spain , boasting sultana and honey notes tagged on to the familiar medley of citrus fruits . |
| 12 | Macijauskas himself is from the second city and former capital , Kaunas which is where he worked with the local branch of the society , won some competitions and became a newspaper reporter . |
| 13 | I understand there 's only three people who are from the same team as last year . |
| 14 | You 're from the Labour group . |
| 15 | I 've got enough to worry about without wondering if you 're from the Ancient Past or the Distant Future , or somewhere quite different altogether . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're from the white house on the hill , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The couple , who were from the Portuguese community in Jersey , separated earlier this year . |
| 18 | ( c.26 ) " Since the kingdom consists of different regions , officers of the first , second , and indeed any rank should so far as possible be picked from different regions , so that [ men from ] the various regions should be able to come to the palace with a greater sense of knowing their way around ( familiarius ) since they would know that men who were from the same kin-group ( genealogia ) or the same region held a place there . " |
| 19 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , I thought you were from the British Committee . |
| 21 | I 'm joined by Phyllis Starkey , she 's the leader of the Oxford City Council , the leader of the Labour Group , and Michael Wright is from the Liberal Democrats , and Queenie Warley is a former mayor and she 's from the Conservative benches . |
| 22 | First of all , Roy Hill , whose the Deputy Trading Standards Officer for Oxfordshire County Council , and also John Collinswood , who is from the Mechanical Breakdown Insurance Company in Thame . |
| 23 | She was from The Blue Anchor , bound for Tigers Bay . |
| 24 | She said she was from the American magazine , Leaders of Mankind . |
| 25 | She had recognised that her father , too , was common , but that he was a good imitator : from the time he had taken up with her mother , who was from the middle class , he had aimed to act accordingly . |
| 26 | Meanwhile the mother of a nine-year-old boy who was from the same town and died in a ski-ing accident , is being cared for by a church group . |
| 27 | He had already christened his guide , who was from the local tourist board , Uncle Ebenezer . |
| 28 | It tells us how far we are from the Best Imaginable Performance ! |
| 29 | But even knowing that , we 're still as far from finding him as we are from the Holy Grail . ’ |
| 30 | When it 's asked , when it says I tell you mainly from the eastern parts and western parts , well we 're from the western parts are n't we ? |