Example sentences of "were from the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the items to go on display were from the former WAAG collection , but a lot of money ( courtesy of a bank and the founders using their homes as collateral ! ) secured the former London Air Museum collection and this enabled a wide spread of exhibits to greet the public when TMAM opened-up in June 1982 . |
| 2 | ( In the event , 15% of ET trainees in its first year of operation were from the former group , and 33% from the latter . ) |
| 3 | To people who went on about their likeness the girl was assiduous in pointing out that every feature when compared was different , but they were recognisable instantly as mother and daughter , as the woman in the shop said , they were from the same mould . |
| 4 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 5 | ( c.26 ) " Since the kingdom consists of different regions , officers of the first , second , and indeed any rank should so far as possible be picked from different regions , so that [ men from ] the various regions should be able to come to the palace with a greater sense of knowing their way around ( familiarius ) since they would know that men who were from the same kin-group ( genealogia ) or the same region held a place there . " |
| 6 | Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia . |
| 7 | Only lot 10 failed to sell , probably due to its similarity to the two previous lots which were from the same series , and its slightly poorer condition . |
| 8 | So long as both the computer 's screen fonts and the printer or typesetter fonts were from the same source this caused no great problems but if the two were mixed then real trouble could occur . |