Example sentences of "[be] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the animal figures which decorate the body of the vessel are from a genuine figurine mould and therefore in perfect Zapotec style . |
| 2 | erm , the adventure section was quite successful in a lot of respects they had quite a few people er attached to it , the scout group and the cub group , cub packs did n't have very many , but erm the adventure section had quite a few people , er and in fact we 've got people doing the tent stalls at the moment that are from a seventh mutant , which is , what it was and of course they 've disenfranchised if you like er but we 're looking , the district is looking to create a new group with Buckland |
| 3 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 4 | If the nuclei are from a female fetus , the sex chromatin body becomes visible in a proportion of the nuclei as the dark staining body illustrated in Figure 6b . |
| 5 | If they have people they can talk to and relate to who are from a non-statutory body , it gives them a greater degree of self-confidence . ’ |
| 6 | Yaakov Meshorer , Curator of Archaeology at the Israel Museum , where finds from the most important sites are on display , explained to The Art Newspaper that the greater number are from a Nabatean city at Qasrawet , twenty-five miles east of the Suez Canal , an Israelite city at Qadesh Barnea ( occupied until the end of the Judean Kingdom in 586 BC ) and an Israelite garrison of the ninth century BC at Kuntilet a-Jrud . |
| 7 | Three of these samples are from a single area close to the Gomakwe intrusion and are represented by open symbols in the figures , whereas the remainder ( solid symbols ) are from more widely spaced localities . |
| 8 | The petrological analysis has not been compared with the distribution of die-sets , yet the sheer volume of material , about 200 vessels from about twelve sites , one being the settlement of West Stow in Suffolk , might seem to argue strongly that the products are from a single workshop . |
| 9 | It is a commonly held fallacy that the caper is the pickled seed of the nasturtium plant , although it is easy to see how this theory may have developed , as they are very similar in shape and are from a spreading plant of a very similar habit . |
| 10 | This is especially true of the agriculture committee where over three-quarters of the members are from an agricultural background and thus represent agricultural interests . |
| 11 | ( The words are from an old song . ) |
| 12 | To open up a situation , to broaden thinking which has hitherto been from a limited viewpoint . |
| 13 | Tax benefits to private pension arrangements have risen at a similar rate , although the growth has been from a smaller base . |
| 14 | It must have been from an old girlfriend . ’ |
| 15 | Gray had stated that the painter 's view of a landscape had always to be from a low point . |
| 16 | At the other extreme , women still childless at age 32 were more likely to be from a professional background with few brothers or sisters , and with mothers who themselves married late , and to have more than average personal ambition and parental interest . |
| 17 | The opening lead looks unlikely to be from a strong diamond holding and thus you decide to play small from dummy at trick one . |
| 18 | She seems to be from a good family , and we want to trace them . |
| 19 | Such a candidate had , among eight conditions , to be from a political party outside parliament but favourably disposed to the parliament , and to be able to " reassure the popular masses , the international sector , the industrial and commercial sector , the middle classes and the army " . |
| 20 | Authorities decided the only possible means of completing the transfer on time would be from a proper docking facility and requested the carrier be moved to nearby Glasgow for loading . |
| 21 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 22 | What will your action be from a local point of view . |
| 23 | It had been thought no money would be forthcoming , but the new grant will be from a different department within the SAC , it emerged yesterday . |
| 24 | The information gained on each generation will be from a different perspective , but will be in each case of intrinsic value in contributing to our understanding of the changing patterns and experience of ageing in the ordinary population . |
| 25 | Although the Chronicle for Cnut 's reign is evidently something of a patchwork , much of it may be from an early date . |
| 26 | ‘ If you do hit trouble it will be from an Iranian terrorist organisation . |
| 27 | BOMB DISPOSAL specialists were yesterday called out to beaches on the south-west coast of Scotland after Second World War phosphorus canisters believed to be from an undersea dump were washed ashore . |
| 28 | They 're thought to be from an old church , and are helping archeologists to piece together a picture of life in medieval times . |
| 29 | This change is often described as being from a general tendency to blame the fecklessness and idleness of the poor for their poverty , to recognition that the fault lay in the structure of the economy ; from a ‘ moral ’ to an ‘ economic ’ diagnosis . |
| 30 | She found herself looking covertly at the bed , which had so much the air of being from a foreign country . |