Example sentences of "was from the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 3 | Thus my first glimpse of Isvik was from the bathroom window of a seafaring man , who had exchanged his small coaster for a house on the quay looking straight out on to the Magellan Strait . |
| 4 | He was from the south side of the dale , which by custom went to Cotherstone , whilst we on our side went to Romaldkirk . |
| 5 | Fortunately it was from the Bar Parlour . |
| 6 | The Antipodean gentleman was from the Textile Museum in Melbourne which is where the carpet is now displayed . |
| 7 | Hence the likelihood that his diaries would have contained material of a secret nature which needed to be suppressed by legal and governmental intervention was from the outset slight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The alien , who was , according to the scientists , ‘ of humanoid form ’ , was from the planet Tellenor in the constellation of the Bear , identified subsequently by scientists as probably belonging to star system BG4543/2221 in the Beta Principis cluster . |
| 10 | The questions were filling up his mind , making him even more tired than he already was from the train journey , the handshakes and the heavy suitcase he had carried everywhere . |
| 11 | Our guide was from the Samburu tribe ; he was tall and muscular , with painted skin and dyed hair , dressed only in loin cloth and a thick , red robe . |
| 12 | The second outing was from the car park on Chalk Hill . |
| 13 | Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary . |
| 14 | One was from the editor , regretting that there were no vacancies , the other was from the news editor , asking him to come to Dublin immediately for an interview . |
| 15 | Well when it was started up , the first unit that I was with was from the shop floor at Bloxwich Lock and Stamping and erm it took the nucleus of people off the shop floor and then after we 'd finished our ten hour shift during the summer or when we could , we started foot drill training in the yard of the factory . |
| 16 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 17 | The results showed that there was twice as much free ball from the Currie Cup game line-outs as there was from the World Cup games . |
| 18 | He was from the leisure office looking after the . |
| 19 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 20 | The sound came again and she understood then that it was from the interview room beyond his wall ; . |
| 21 | Five of the initial appointees were from supply companies , five from public electricity authorities , while one was from the engineering industry , two from the trade unions and one from the civil service . |