Example sentences of "be [verb] to [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This powerful movement , whose origins are ancient and obscure but which in its modern form can be said to date from the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 , was soon associated with the spread of Enlightenment ideals through Europe : its ranks included princes , aristocrats , diplomats , merchants , bankers and civil servants — free-thinkers and rationalists of the upper and middle classes — as well as intellectuals and artists . |
| 2 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 3 | And it would be shame to him to hold back and let a fighter like Douglas be shot to death from a distance , with never an enemy at hand to exchange blows with him . |
| 4 | Describes prisoners about to be transported to prison from a police station , in particular two younger sisters , the elder hardened to it all but the younger one bitterly distressed . |
| 5 | Bootham Bar in York is to be closed to traffic from March 7–20 as British Gas workmen continue laying a new main . |
| 6 | In contrast to neighbouring Cuxton , where a most important Palaeolithic site was discovered in 1962 , the prehistory of Hailing as known at present can only be shown to date from Neolithic , or New Stone Age , times . |
| 7 | With the help of genetic finger-printing and the composite embryo techniques the experiment involved , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life from tissue preserved in museums . |