Example sentences of "it [was/were] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | This was Little Gidding , and , as she wrote , ‘ I shall never forget the experience of hearing the words new-minted as it were from the poet 's own lips ’ . |
| 4 | And then he said suddenly , ‘ That phone call Ah was waitin' fur — it was from the hotel Iris had given me as her address in Lima . |
| 5 | It was from the credit that the , I went the education secretary his , his secretary was retiring and er he came for me because he knew I knew Guild and Co-operative work you know . |
| 6 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 7 | But it was from the beginning an erotic exercise . |
| 8 | It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory . |
| 9 | In Christ all things have become new , and yet everything remains as it was from the beginning … ’ |
| 10 | And it was from the beginning the case in a more general Marxist tradition , which has been especially active and , it should be stressed , diverse in recent years . |
| 11 | The final reversal came with the publication of two seminal books , an article and a film ; and again it was from the direction of psychoanalysis that the change came . |
| 12 | It was from the vantage point of the Master 's Lodge , a family place , that Thomson , cheerful and generous , made his most distinctive contribution to university affairs , although he had already been active since the 1930s in adult education , as both a part-time tutor and a committee member , and from 1950 to 1958 he had sat on the council of the senate . |
| 13 | ‘ Love apples , ’ she had said to Mark , and the words ‘ love apple ’ had somehow given a name to the district , strange and different as it was from the rest of the parish which lay over the other side of the main road , far from the railway line . |
| 14 | It was from the secretarius intimus or secretarius papae of this period that the later papal secretary of state evolved , though that title was first used only in 1644 . |
| 15 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 16 | It was from the USA that the ‘ group system ’ of investigation now advocated by ICAO originated as , to a certain extent , did the present format of ICAO aircraft accident reports . |
| 17 | It was from the Toronto Golf Club in 1985 and headed |
| 18 | Brown could n't tell whether it was from the day spent in police custody or the general tension electrifying the population . |
| 19 | Fortunately it was from the Bar Parlour . |
| 20 | It was from the policeman at Morvyl . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Platzer again was responsible for the statuary and it was from the Platzer workshop too , in the mid-18C , that the Jesuit saints flanking the nave came . |
| 23 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 24 | The last one said it was from the Editor . |
| 25 | It was from the Machine Knitters Association of Western Australia , inviting me to be the principal demonstrator at their seminar in January 1992 . |
| 26 | I would n't know if it was from the heart of Palmolive 's Flakes Department or Mrs Beaton 's Home Cooking Department . |
| 27 | It was from the ranks of Oxbridge enthusiasts that these commentators were mostly drawn . |
| 28 | Ivan founded a monastery at Cetinje , and it was from the monks who lived there that the orthodox bishops were chosen . |
| 29 | It was from the kidnappers . |
| 30 | And they , then the other ones er there was one with General Motors and it was a , a huge thing , you were ten , it was a huge building , modern building but you just could n't tell what it was from the outside . |