Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 2 | Erm and she was from the Pentiford area I think , erm oh quite a well educated girl , erm there was nothing to stop them from joining , I mean the London Fire Brigade there are , are fire fighters who are girls , erm and the er they do very well erm there are problems of course , with , with women on fire stations , but nevertheless there 's no reason why they should n't be there , providing they can do the job and I 'm sure those who read the papers and see the news know that in Russia and places like that , women do the , do the job very well . |
| 3 | There was nothing to raise him from this unless world events should create the opportunity for him . |
| 4 | At least there was nothing to prevent me from enjoying a fantasy or two , now and then , while waiting . |
| 5 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |