Example sentences of "be from the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since colours can vary slightly , it 's important to buy all the tiles you need at once to ensure that they 're from the same batch ; it 's also a good idea to unpack and mix them before fixing them , to even out any colour variations . |
| 2 | There will be both American and Japanese ranges in the Starfield line and the two guitars we have for review are from the latter source . |
| 3 | Users will thus get the same menu commands on 1-2-3/G and Word Perfect PM , so the two products will look as though they are from the same company . |
| 4 | Here 16 black and white photographs portray " Blondes " — in fact all the pictures are from the same girl , with slightly different expressions on her face — and 16 ditto of a " Brunettes " ditto . |
| 5 | Parts ( a ) and ( b ) are from the same flow , as are parts ( c ) and ( d ) — the difference between the two flows being in the Reynolds number . |
| 6 | The Shipman 's Tale tells of a lovers ' triangle , involving a merchant who lives at St Denis ( France ) , his wife , and a Parisian monk who was regarded as their friend : indeed the monk and the merchant call each other cousin , as both are from the same village . |
| 7 | The bed and bedhead are from the same era and are made of brass . |
| 8 | I think that , had the girls been from today 's society the situation may have been different but I will assume they are from the same background as the boys were . |
| 9 | Likewise , GST-GATA 1 ( 1.5μg ) failed to bind to the E2F site ( tracks 8 and 10 ) but did to its cognate binding site ( tracks 9 and 11 ) in the presence ( tracks 8 and 9 ) or absence ( tracks 10 and 11 ) of nonspecific salmon sperm DNA ( 2μg ) ; tracks 6 to 11 are from the same experiment . |
| 10 | All pairs are from the same family or superfamily and are roughly matched for size and relative tail length of males , but have otherwise been selected at random . |
| 11 | ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family . |
| 12 | I understand there 's only three people who are from the same team as last year . |
| 13 | It does n't have to be from the same range , but the pieces should have something in common — such as being in the same or similar wood or style , having the same upholstery fabric or the same colour . |
| 14 | Or why is it that five men , brothers , can all be from the same womb , with the same father too , peas in the same pod ( if you prefer that expression ) yet can each be quite an individualist in all things , from habits to politics ? |
| 15 | Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible . |
| 16 | Alternatively it may be suggested that the metal alloys from which the bracteates and their loops were made need not always be from the same source . |
| 17 | According to the new constitution , the Federal President ( to be elected by the legislature ) and Prime Minister might not be from the same republic . |
| 18 | Most of the items to go on display were from the former WAAG collection , but a lot of money ( courtesy of a bank and the founders using their homes as collateral ! ) secured the former London Air Museum collection and this enabled a wide spread of exhibits to greet the public when TMAM opened-up in June 1982 . |
| 19 | ( In the event , 15% of ET trainees in its first year of operation were from the former group , and 33% from the latter . ) |
| 20 | To people who went on about their likeness the girl was assiduous in pointing out that every feature when compared was different , but they were recognisable instantly as mother and daughter , as the woman in the shop said , they were from the same mould . |
| 21 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 22 | ( c.26 ) " Since the kingdom consists of different regions , officers of the first , second , and indeed any rank should so far as possible be picked from different regions , so that [ men from ] the various regions should be able to come to the palace with a greater sense of knowing their way around ( familiarius ) since they would know that men who were from the same kin-group ( genealogia ) or the same region held a place there . " |
| 23 | Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia . |
| 24 | So long as both the computer 's screen fonts and the printer or typesetter fonts were from the same source this caused no great problems but if the two were mixed then real trouble could occur . |
| 25 | Docherty , who is so far undefeated as a professional , is from the same part of Strathclyde as Clinton and will attract the crowd who traditionally follow the flyweight . |
| 26 | However , in other circumstances , people also choose to claim membership of one group rather than another for specific purposes — from the trivial ( jumping the queue because the shopkeeper is from the same village ) to the momentous . |
| 27 | The Old English ‘ angul ’ means a fish-hook , from the Aryan ‘ ank ’ ( to bend ) : the geometrical sense is from the same stem , signifying a bent line . |
| 28 | The grace to feel that the meaning and purpose rings true is from the same source . |
| 29 | He later became my protector , my minder , the brother who claimed that I , and I alone , was from the same mould . |
| 30 | The cutlery was from the same state factory and had the same design and so did the plates , the menu , and the waiters . |