Example sentences of "[prep] be from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other Briton , John Steele , is thought to be from the Home Counties . |
| 2 | If anyone claims to be from the Gas Board , Electricity Board , council , or any such body , keep the chain on the door and tell them that you only admit such people by appointment . |
| 3 | A first step in the process is to examine the gap between what the company income is likely to be from the products now in production and the income that it wishes to have over the next planning period . |
| 4 | She told them that a man had knocked on the door of her home in Hereford claiming to be from the council . |
| 5 | The presence of a rival could blight his own prospects , and if he happened to be from the locality , then Owen O'Clery told himself he might as well be moving on immediately . |
| 6 | Any land attack had to be from the west and north , entailing a prior crossing of Tweed , here quite wide . |
| 7 | TWO MEN claiming to be from the electricity board tricked their way into the home of an elderly Essex woman and stole an antique carriage clock and jewellery , police have revealed . |
| 8 | The body of a 30-year-old man thought to be from the Accrington area was found when police arrived to search the floor of the steep-sided quarry near the Ponderosa Restaurant . |
| 9 | Police have yet to name the dead man but he is thought to be from the Grangetown area . |
| 10 | Later four men , believed to be from the Ballymena area , were arrested returning from the same event . |
| 11 | In court , the Stacey brothers gave the address of the Swindon guest house , although their family is thought to be from the Waterford area . |
| 12 | He 's a rare well preserved example of a person originally thought to be from the bronze age . |
| 13 | a sick child ( preferably appearing to be from the past , ie. black and white photo/line drawing ) |
| 14 | The unit , believed to be from the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) — the largest of the insurgent Moslem groups — |
| 15 | Not 30 miles away from here , at Chippenham , they erm three members , believed to be from the I R A , attempted to assassinate the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , Tom King . |
| 16 | Once you 've decided on the amount you need to borrow , you can get an indication of what the gross monthly repayments are likely to be from the tables provided in this booklet for amounts up to £5,000 . |
| 17 | From your photograph , the flies appear to be from the family Muscidae , related to the house flies Musca domestica and Fannia canicularis , but the fungus has bloated their abdomens , making precise identification difficult . |
| 18 | One day in September , Flora 's doctor received a call from someone who claimed to be from the Family Health Services Authority , asking for details from his files , suspicious , he gave nothing away . |
| 19 | The one of Otakar I is superb and is said to be from the hand of the master himself . |
| 20 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 21 | A man claiming to be from the IRA gave a coded warning to a news agency 45 minutes before the explosion . |
| 22 | Emergency services were put on standby after A mystery caller claiming to be from the IRA telephoned a warning … |
| 23 | The party , thought to be from the Plymouth area , set off from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis , which specialises in school journeys and field trips . |
| 24 | Is it because they take in a smaller quantity of vapour or tablet dust ? and how far does the vial have to be from the nose before the dose is inactive ? |
| 25 | Occasionally some of the other ranks could be seen driving old Chevvies ( they brought their own cars with them rather than risk going to local garages ) with number plates proclaiming their owners to be from the Potato or Sunshine States or , ironically , from the Land of the Free . |
| 26 | Pretend to be from the employment agency . ’ |
| 27 | PRICELESS gems said to be from the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen were stolen from a car in south London yesterday . |
| 28 | But again , it had always got to be from the Co-op , because it had come through mum you see , really and er sh I say she is eighty-two . |
| 29 | In China , criticism of the bureaucracy has generally not been through formal representative assemblies , councils and congresses but through ‘ mass campaigns ’ , though the direction of influence has tended to be from the party leadership to the masses through propaganda , political education and mobilization exercises rather than from the masses upwards . |