Example sentences of "it was from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more important however , it was from the eastern window here that Jaroslav Martinic and William Slavata , both fanatical Catholics and Habsburg supporters , were defenestrated by members of the Bohemian Protestant Estates in 1618 ( see p. 10 ) . |
| 2 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 3 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 4 | It was from the first century B.C. onwards that the vast white marble quarries at Carrara were developed and that quantities of Greek marble were shipped to Italy from Hymettus and Pentelicus . |
| 5 | It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive . |
| 6 | It was from the first of December for the address although they were actually |
| 7 | It was from the late Sir Harry Luke , author of that delightful and civilized book The Tenth Muse ( Putnam , 1954 , and revised edition 1962 ) that I learned of the beauty of mulberry ices . |
| 8 | But the sun 's rays reflected wickedly off the intense blue waters of the lake , so it was from the small window of the launch that I — a different creature by far — watched the pyramid shape of Taquile drift by , and the few kilometres of Amantani come into view . |
| 9 | So it was from the early 1960s that his career became inextricably linked to its growing success . |
| 10 | And it was from the top deck , apparently , that she had disappeared . |
| 11 | It was from the 1850s , however , that these tentative beginnings crystallised into a new post which rapidly became generally recognised . |
| 12 | Yet it was from the delirious welcome accorded to him by his partisans in the Madrid streets that Ferdinand VII formed his conceptions of political power ; in 1814 he was to use the Aranjuez mixture of plebeian loyalty and army support in order to defeat the liberal constitution . |
| 13 | After a brief examination , it became evident that the lady 's pain was coming from her right kidney , and as it was in waves , or ‘ colicky ’ , my aunt was led to believe it was from the renal vein — which leads into the kidney — and as this organ felt hard , a conclusion was reached that our patient probably had a kidney-stone blocking the hollow vein . |
| 14 | And , anyway , it was from the British he made his money , selling them scrap iron during the war , so it will be an extra pleasure to make him cough up that sort of loot . ’ |
| 15 | It was from the same haunts as the tarsier that the original " Wild Man of Borneo " — the orangutan , or " man of the forest " — was to reveal himself : a creature so vulnerable , so resonant with human emotion , that we could not fail to see ourselves in him . |