Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her cheeks were rosy from the exercise ; with her pointed features and sparkling eyes she looked like an amiable , wholesome witch . |
| 2 | These new converts to the cause of family allowances were different from the feminist and ‘ living wage ’ advocates of the previous decade because their primary concern was not to improve the status of women or redistribute income from rich to poor , though these aims might incidentally be attained . |
| 3 | In many cases , first impressions were different from the opinion that later developed . |
| 4 | Therapsids were notable mammalian forerunners , and were different from the pelycosaurs in having their jaw muscles attached directly to the skull , rather than to tendons . |
| 5 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 6 | She wore brass anklets , and her feet were wet from the river . |
| 7 | Some of the vehicles accompanying the troops were direct from the factory with wood and fibreglass sections still unpainted . |
| 8 | Between 1965 and 1969 US troop levels in South Vietnam mushroomed to over half a million , but proved of limited use against a determined guerrilla army whose members were indistinguishable from the people America was trying to defend . |
| 9 | The same way with the bombardier waste gunner , radio operators , engineers and all the gunners , so that our crews were all buddy-buddy. crew and my crew were buddy-buddy from the minute we were formed , right on through , I guess you might say the rest of our lives here , even though we have not gotten together since the war but I have talked to on the phone one time when I was in New York City . |
| 10 | The fact that the two hospitals were less than three miles apart , that they had a combined acreage of 375 acres , that they were outmoded from the point of view of treatment , and that both had ‘ spare capacity ’ because of the continued decline in the long-stay population meant that there was much to be gained from merger . |
| 11 | The Chancellor insisted that Britain 's economic fortunes were inseparable from the world situation — ‘ as an open economy which exports a third of its output , developments abroad have a profound impact on Britain ’ . |
| 12 | The bills were fresh from the mint . |
| 13 | The long beans were fresh from the fields , crisp and extremely sweet , the silk squash had a soft , spongy texture and earthy flavour which provided a nice contrast to its coarse skin . |
| 14 | The lack of connection between schools and , when they were distinct from the universities , polytechnics is obvious : the latter played no formal part in examination boards . |
| 15 | We had stopped in Geysir for diesel and here it was , only three in the morning and we were half-way from the end of the road . |
| 16 | Some lay Nonjurors returned to communion with the Church of England after the death of James II , feeling that now they were relieved from the oaths , as did some of their clerical counterparts after the demise of the last Nonjuring bishop in 1710 . |
| 17 | In country as in town , the aristocrat accepted — in theory at least-that wealth and position were indivisible from a commitment to the social good . |
| 18 | The bridge had been removed but the wooden platform and building were visible from the road below ; there was a roofed stairway leading to platform level , every step was either missing or rotten , so the bottom of the staircase was made completely inaccessible with barbed wire criss-crossed right up to the old roof beam . |
| 19 | ( The Court found that , because religious communities were separate from the state , " the actions and decisions taken by the Directorate of Religious Faiths … constituted an inadmissible interference in the affairs of the … |
| 20 | The problem is the government said that non-commercial undertakings as they define them , local authorities , health authorities and the Civil Service were exempt from the regulations . |
| 21 | Certain bodies were exempt from the levy — for instance , local authorities , new town development corporations , the Housing Corporation and housing societies . |
| 22 | Up to now the US airwaves have been free , but there are moves to license any new frequencies that become available to the highest bidder — some argue that television should go entirely by cable to free capacity for radio communications : the US Federal Communications Commission is supporting a bill in Congress to free 200MHz of government-controlled radio frequencies for commercial use , in part through auctions ; the National Association of Broadcasters said it would support the bill if broadcast frequencies were exempt from the auctions ; McCaw Cellular Communications Inc is also a supporter of the bill . |
| 23 | Some of the ancient abbeys , such as St Albans and Bury St Edmunds in England , were exempt from the visitation of the local bishop and answerable only to the pope . |
| 24 | The loan is being made through the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) , the bank 's private sector arm , which environmentalists accuse of acting as if it were exempt from the Bank 's environmental directions . |
| 25 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 26 | In 1962 the terms of the Net Book Agreement were upheld following examination in the Restrictive Practices Court , and it was agreed that books were exempt from the terms of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act of 1956 . |
| 27 | Throughout the Wasps match frayed Orrell nerves were obvious from the opening minute , Hynes , Ashurst and Cusani attracting warnings from the referee . |
| 28 | He looked tired and his eyes were bloodshot from the dust . |
| 29 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 30 | Opportunities for the integration of students were present from the beginning . |