Example sentences of "[adv] [be] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light could only be from a torch — obviously — but there was something oddly fragmented about it . |
| 2 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 3 | The questions were filling up his mind , making him even more tired than he already was from the train journey , the handshakes and the heavy suitcase he had carried everywhere . |
| 4 | His view of Iran had almost always been from the sky . |
| 5 | It is likely that the chief executive of a TNC plant in a Third World country will still be from the home country , but it is now quite common to see host-country nationals occupying salaried positions at all levels . |
| 6 | The palazzo is an excellent town house dating from the early sixteenth-century , although almost all that you see now is from a remodelling in 1841 . |
| 7 | He dug deep into his jacket pocket , the grin fixed on his face and his bloodshot eyes regarding Beth with interest ; at length he drew a mangled envelope from his pocket and , flourishing it grandly , explained , ‘ This ‘ ere 's from a lad we come across in a foreign port . ’ |
| 8 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 9 | The wardrobe illustrated here is from the Acme range . |
| 10 | It usually runs the length of a wall between side walls , but can sometimes be from a side wall to an end panel next to a door . |
| 11 | In the case of bush and shrub types , this will ideally be from the base of the plant to avoid the main road from becoming any longer than it need be , and to preserve and constrain the overall size of the bush . |