Example sentences of "be from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you 're from the Troops Out movement . |
| 2 | The six hour-long episodes are from the pens of TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais , whose string of top-rated comedies include Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen Pet . |
| 3 | The lots are from the grounds of an institution whose garden was created around 1870 . |
| 4 | ‘ A work must enact its own meaning ’ and ‘ Never trust the teller , trust the tale ’ — such Lawrentian tags , garbled as they may have been from the writings of the Master , could inspire and cheer the literate young of the 1940s . |
| 5 | It could n't be from the results of the Primary 7 tests — could it ? |
| 6 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 7 | Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine . |
| 8 | It 's for me , Thérèse exclaimed : it 's from the nuns in Soeur Dosithée 's old convent . |
| 9 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
| 10 | well done , I never can get that word out I stumble with it every time and that gets a signal from the brain that says this is a difficult situation this is something I 'm not used to this is some I it 's very primitive it 's it 's from the days in the jungle or whatever er a fear of fright over absolute it 's fight or flight , and that 's why you start breathing quicker because the blood wants more oxygen because it 's ready to run or to fight because the muscles , it is |
| 11 | The flight is from the impingements of blood ( the red of the tulips ) and pain and from the complexities of close human relationships . |
| 12 | One is from the gardens of Schloss Laufen , and there are others , including a convenient platform . |
| 13 | The second source of ‘ goodness ’ is from the centuries of human struggle which has endured since the dawn of civilisation . |
| 14 | There are quite a large number of species in Carboniferous and Permian rocks which resemble the species illustrated here This species is from the limestones of Keokuk , Iowa , USA . |
| 15 | As it is from the children of the semi- and unskilled working class who leave school without any qualification that the underclass is being recruited , it is important to ask which children are most likely to fall into this category . |
| 16 | It was at Brives-la-Gaillarde that he was elevated to the kingship , and it was from the cities of Aquitaine that he received the oaths of loyalty , which most kings must have taken by proxy . |
| 17 | A complex lighting system had once worked , but now the only illumination was from the gaps in the roof which allowed streams of sunlight to pour through into the empty , lifeless environment . |
| 18 | It was from the ranks of Oxbridge enthusiasts that these commentators were mostly drawn . |
| 19 | Since most of the surplus food was from the lowlands with irrigation water originating in the highlands , widespread deforestation in the latter areas had had very serious effects upon the ability of South Korea to feed itself . |
| 20 | The decline into the poverty of the inter-war years was from the heights into the depths . |
| 21 | My nearest desk companion was from the offices of Dr Barnardo 's Homes at Barkingside . |