Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " A small part , " 90 entire pennies and a few fragments , was recovered by the Scottish Exchequer and were mostly from the reign of Eadgar with others from Athelstan , Edmund , Eodred and Eadwig . |
| 2 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 3 | They both looked relaxed , an easy familiarity between them now that they were away from the office and cut free from the restrictions of boss and secretary . |
| 4 | Nearly all the children were away from the bus by now — except for one , slower than the rest . |
| 5 | It seems he surprised Clare gazing lovingly at a photograph of a man whilst you were away from the table . |
| 6 | But they were away from the rocks . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 8 | He taught English at the Bredon Hill Middle School near Evesham , but was suspended from his duties when the allegations were made about his dealings with youngsters , who were not from the school . |
| 9 | One group of sixteen came from Ballyvourney by bus , another smaller group came from Ballinspittle and there were more from the city . |
| 10 | Two schools for the deaf which were opened in the 1900s were both from the start to establish a pure oralist tradition . |
| 11 | Guest vocal stars were often from the States and of the sex-calibre of Frank Sinatra . |
| 12 | The short workings were mainly from the London end , hence their allocation to Brixton Hill . |
| 13 | You did n't have to be a genius to work out they were n't from the Lord 's Day Observance Society . |
| 14 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 15 | I believe that truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 16 | Truths which were there from the beginning in the Christian faith can lie dormant until the social and psychological conditions are right for them to be perceived . |
| 17 | T. B. You 'd have sergeants who liked to drink and he 'd have a constable in his section who knew where to get this drink , but normally amongst the sergeants , you were apart from the constables . |
| 18 | Such features are not consistent with the idea that the peninsula was built by longshore drift from the east , unless such drift was active only for short periods while during the intervening time the drift was predominantly from the west . |
| 19 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 20 | And it was n't even from my constituency it was widely from the Leicestershire and coming back to our , our friend there Doctor er , I do n't know what was the name there when he mentioned about what 's the name ? |
| 21 | She realized she was down from the morph-plus , and that her senses were sharper than they had ever been before . |
| 22 | Of the seats , 5% deviated from the electoral quota by 20% ( though this was down from the 39% of seats that had deviated by that much on the 1982 register . ) |
| 23 | He prided himself , with high justification , on being a great House of Commons man , but it was only from the Treasury bench that he could lead with ease and pleasure . |
| 24 | Both he and Eadmer had written their Histories down to 1120 without mentioning these texts , and it was only from the Canterbury monks that William of Malmesbury now learnt that these were the texts quoted by Lanfranc fifty years earlier . |
| 25 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 26 | My friend Simon Jones was over from the States and I 'd promised him seats that night , and then forgotten all about it . |
| 27 | They were at it in the house , then in Felstead 's car on the way to the Club , all the time he was away from the bar . |
| 28 | When she belatedly realised that she must be pregnant she could not tell the Englishman , because he was away from the camp leading an action against an important German supply dump . |
| 29 | But if he was away from the Institute the day she disappeared … . |
| 30 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |