Example sentences of "[adj] was a [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was none of your mensa-a-table , this was a flash from the forbidden planet , and it was everywhere . |
| 2 | Paul knew that this was a sign from God . |
| 3 | In England and the Dutch republic difficulties of this kind were particularly acute : one result of this was a tendency from the 1660s onwards to give influential figures in Dutch public life , as an inducement to accept a mission abroad , the highest diplomatic rank of ambassador extraordinary , even if the mission in question were a run-of-the-mill one . |
| 4 | Beneath this was a message from Editor Smith . |
| 5 | I realized that the mysterious man had told someone to watch me , and this was a message from his spy . |
| 6 | This was a reduction from the previous year 's record deficit of US$63,800,000 . |
| 7 | This was a departure from tradition , since the illuminated cars had hitherto only been decorative . |
| 8 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 9 | First there was the trend to focus upon extreme events because these are the ones that may occasion damage and costs , they are the ones for which landscape management strategies may be designed , and this was a departure from the earlier emphasis upon the average experience . |
| 10 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 11 | It was later learned that this was a boat from the Guiding Lights which had brought her drugs ashore while the first inflatable ferried our food and fuel . |
| 12 | But this was a wind from the north that blew |
| 13 | But this was a world from which women were largely excluded and few thought to question the relationship between the public world of politics and the private world of the family . |
| 14 | Now this was a line from a film , and he was always using it . |
| 15 | Surely this was a hang-over from the scholasticism of an infallible Bible and the authoritarianism of an ecclesiastical teaching office ? |
| 16 | His father King Henry II was a Frenchman from Anjou , the descendant of a long line of counts who had ruled Anjou for two hundred and fifty years . |
| 17 | The fourth was a letter from the landlord about making too much noise late at night . |
| 18 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 19 | The King said , without turning round , ‘ That was a message from Lothian . |
| 20 | That was a change from the senators and congressmen and captains of industry , whom she 'd been seducing since she arrived on these golden shores . |
| 21 | That was a request from Charlotte , she 's been demanding chocolate biscuits . |
| 22 | That was a line from Keats , in case you did n't know . ’ |
| 23 | The deference of his courtiers did nothing for this — that was a piece from a different jigsaw puzzle he had already solved . |