Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 2 | He was so very familiar on the streets of the town , with that zipped yellow jacket and his jeans , yet be looked like something from another world in the garden . |
| 3 | To be applied to everything from religious observance to sweeping the kitchen floor . |
| 4 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 5 | The millennium can not be imposed on them from above . |
| 6 | In this new series of letters , Sue Robson will be writing to us from a small-town university in the Yangste River Valley , China . |
| 7 | In addition to the free golf , a week 's holiday ( seven nights ) , including return flight , car hire and cancellation insurance can be had for anything from £595 to £729 a person between 2 January and 31 March . |
| 8 | This can then be used for everything from lighting to running electrical appliances . |
| 9 | Staff say the computers will be used for everything from report writing to course registration . |
| 10 | This arrangement is so flexible it can be used for anything from tennis to Holiday on Ice to huge international congresses and exhibitions . |
| 11 | A purpose-made mitre saw can be used for anything from cutting plastic pipework to general joinery and , of course , for picture framing . |
| 12 | In fact the parts can be used in anything from high-tech warships to telephones and TVs . |
| 13 | The storage building blocks are packaged to slide into modular shelving which can then be configured for anything from the desktop to the data centre . |
| 14 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 15 | Data files included punched cards ( as data files , not just for input ) ; the computer was dated , overloaded and likely to be replaced by one from a different manufacturer ; there was little real-time access to data ; management information was scarce ; there was little in the way of computerized records for Polytechnic students on non-modular courses , and that little was unintegrated with the modular system ; there were no benefits or access to data for offices besides the registry ; the file structures could no longer cope with the then size of the course ( 1,100 students ) ; and the data structures were arcane ( for example , over-zealous use of bit-packing ) . |
| 16 | As the carriages were successively condemned , the ‘ receiver ’ , who ran the railway , would buy up job lots and you never knew if you would be travelling in something from the Brecon & Merthyr , the London & South Western , or the Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith . |
| 17 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 18 | Someone with accountancy training can be extremely helpful in the preparation of Schedules of Special Damages and if your department is large enough to need some form of dedicated management , this can often best be provided by someone from outside the law as solicitors do not make the best managers . |
| 19 | They are there to be found in everything from car boot sales to Victorian garden dumps . |
| 20 | But questions continued to be hurled at him from every side , and eventually , as an extraordinary mark of favour , he consented to answer one or two of them . |
| 21 | Even indifferent lawyers may be kept going by their clerk arranging for briefs to be passed to them from dud solicitors . |
| 22 | 7.4 Whenever any sum of money is recoverable from or payable by you to us as a result of the operation of any of these conditions or any breach by you of the same , such sum may be deducted by us from any sum then due or which at any time thereafter may become due to you under any other order or transaction placed or entered into by us with you . |
| 23 | Slightly less clear is the effect of FSA , s 48(2) ( h ) , which authorises rules : " enabling or requiring information obtained by an authorised person in the course of carrying on one part of his business to be withheld by him from persons with whom he deals in the course of carrying on another part and for that purpose enabling or requiring persons employed in one part of that business to withhold information from those employed in another part . " |
| 24 | It is a real link , not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ relationship . |
| 25 | WML is a real link not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ . |
| 26 | He 'll be working with us from now on . ’ |