Example sentences of "it was from these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from these Mayors of the Palace — senior officers of the royal house — that Charlemagne 's ancestors were eventually to become kings in their own right . |
| 2 | It was from these vines , which stretched into Verzenay , Mailly and Verzy , that the wines of Sillery were made . |
| 3 | It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour , while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds ; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society . |
| 4 | It was from these informants that he pieced together a picture of organised crime as being controlled by key personnel in the police force , local government , business and the legal profession . |
| 5 | It was from these territories that further political disruption derived , affecting directly the kingdom of Kent but drawing Mercians and eastern Saxons into a new power-struggle . |