Example sentences of "be [pron] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you from that part of the world at all or ? |
| 2 | When you say , talk about the Middle East , are you from that part of the world ? |
| 3 | There 's been everything from violent sieges to people walking around with shooters . |
| 4 | Children can be the most cruel of all , and there has been everything from physical fights to slanging matches . ’ |
| 5 | You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here . |
| 6 | I think if I could ever call anyone a role model , for me it would be someone from both categories — Madonna for her strength of character and Joni Mitchell for her musicianship , and her lyrics are bloody great . ’ |
| 7 | It does n't have to be someone from this parish council , maybe other people are interested , or prepared to attend . |
| 8 | Lord for instance and er there used to be one from this way , Portmadoc somewhere , the place was the place was called . |
| 9 | The common earthworm can be anything from four inches to a foot long , and many people claim to have seen worms 20 inches long , but that may be stretching a point . |
| 10 | They can be anything from four to ten feet long . |
| 11 | They both allow people to choose their own time horizons , which can be anything from two to 25 years . |
| 12 | It depended entirely on the screw as to how full they filled it ; it could be anything from half-full to full . |
| 13 | This may be anything from increasing brand awareness to improving specific aspects of the brand image . |
| 14 | As the incubation period can be anything from twenty-eight to thirty-six days , with twenty-nine to thirty-two being the norm , Barny must have worked out what was required of him pretty quickly . |
| 15 | So there would n't be anything from that point of view . |
| 16 | The motives of the instigators might be anything from pure love of a believed-in ‘ god ’ , to nothing more than an ignoble desire to surpass in magnificence the work of a rival religion or area of influence . |
| 17 | Their involvement , if it materialises , may be anything from straightforward advertising on the equipment , on Mir , and even on the astronaut , to support for scientific experiments . |
| 18 | However , on the basis of recent intensive research in areas of South American forest , entomologists have suggested that the true worldwide figure could be anything from 10 million to 50 million species . |
| 19 | This can be anything from five pages on someone like Dame Edna Everage — because she 's a fictional person ( or did n't you know ? ) to thirty or forty pages for the Elizabeth Taylors of the world . |
| 20 | we was engaged , oh I have talked to other people but we was engaged in making locks but most of the locks , well they did do a , er wardrobe locks , small cabinet locks , lever locks but one of the biggest kind of locks we di er made was the locks for car cars and vans which , in them days , was was fantastic because most of the car bodies was of wood , the , the , the , the framework was wood , so erm the locks er were three or four , four by five er seven by eight and selvedges on them fourteen inches long , er bolts er the , the bolt mechanism would be anything from five eighths to an inch in di er er square with a radius on the end erm th there was er there was the sidecar locks which were smaller erm that was the sort of locks they made . |
| 21 | At the moment we have a sixty limit for lorries , while it can be anything from fifty two to sixty five in mainland Europe . |
| 22 | On modern waste systems this is relatively easy , but on old-fashioned systems it may be anything from difficult to impossible — and care needs to be taken not to crack a ceramic basin when unscrewing a tight cleaning eye . |
| 23 | These women , who may be anything from 40 to 70 , take care of their forme by eating to various permutations : some do n't eat after 5 pm , others never mix protein and carbohydrate . |
| 24 | Slotting the survey findings together , the authors found that the total number of landfills in America might be anything from 4,462 to 10,467 . |
| 25 | These stems can be anything from 3 to 4ft tall and support , during summer , dense heads of crimson-purple flowers . |
| 26 | Their conclusion was that if all the companies in that region introduced whatever new technology was available at the time of the study the net loss of jobs might be anything from 3 to 9 per cent of all jobs in the region . |
| 27 | Glebes here could be anything from 20 to 100 acres . |
| 28 | Glebes could be anything from large farms to little or nothing . |
| 29 | The flanks of both the male and female carry a large area of colour which might be anything from bright pink to pale mauve , but in every case this colouring is far more intense in the male . |
| 30 | ‘ Are they from some other gang ? ’ |