Example sentences of "to [be] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The badge looks to be from the '50s . |
| 2 | Is it because they take in a smaller quantity of vapour or tablet dust ? and how far does the vial have to be from the nose before the dose is inactive ? |
| 3 | The Bramante building — it was the architect 's first work in Milan — is thought to be from the finest period of the Lombardy Renaissance and is a masterpiece of space and depth , the more so because of Bramante 's superb use of a perspective fresco beyond the High Altar . |
| 4 | a sick child ( preferably appearing to be from the past , ie. black and white photo/line drawing ) |
| 5 | The one of Otakar I is superb and is said to be from the hand of the master himself . |
| 6 | Once you 've decided on the amount you need to borrow , you can get an indication of what the gross monthly repayments are likely to be from the tables provided in this booklet for amounts up to £5,000 . |
| 7 | If anyone claims to be from the Gas Board , Electricity Board , council , or any such body , keep the chain on the door and tell them that you only admit such people by appointment . |
| 8 | There are two bells hung from a stout beam , thought to be from the old church , and eight tubular bells given in 1888 . |
| 9 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 10 | A man claiming to be from the IRA gave a coded warning to a news agency 45 minutes before the explosion . |
| 11 | Any land attack had to be from the west and north , entailing a prior crossing of Tweed , here quite wide . |
| 12 | PRICELESS gems said to be from the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen were stolen from a car in south London yesterday . |
| 13 | The other Briton , John Steele , is thought to be from the Home Counties . |
| 14 | TWO MEN claiming to be from the electricity board tricked their way into the home of an elderly Essex woman and stole an antique carriage clock and jewellery , police have revealed . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the class factor remains important : according to Wilkin , women undergraduates are more likely to be from the middle class than men ( Wilkin , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | It does n't have to be from the same range , but the pieces should have something in common — such as being in the same or similar wood or style , having the same upholstery fabric or the same colour . |
| 17 | The presence of a rival could blight his own prospects , and if he happened to be from the locality , then Owen O'Clery told himself he might as well be moving on immediately . |
| 18 | From your photograph , the flies appear to be from the family Muscidae , related to the house flies Musca domestica and Fannia canicularis , but the fungus has bloated their abdomens , making precise identification difficult . |
| 19 | But again , it had always got to be from the Co-op , because it had come through mum you see , really and er sh I say she is eighty-two . |
| 20 | One day in September , Flora 's doctor received a call from someone who claimed to be from the Family Health Services Authority , asking for details from his files , suspicious , he gave nothing away . |
| 21 | Later four men , believed to be from the Ballymena area , were arrested returning from the same event . |
| 22 | A Christian evangelist missionary from the United States , William Robinson , was shot dead by gunmen , claiming to be from the Lebanese Communist Party , in the southern Lebanon village of Rashaya Foukhar on March 27 . |
| 23 | The unit , believed to be from the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) — the largest of the insurgent Moslem groups — |
| 24 | A first step in the process is to examine the gap between what the company income is likely to be from the products now in production and the income that it wishes to have over the next planning period . |
| 25 | In China , criticism of the bureaucracy has generally not been through formal representative assemblies , councils and congresses but through ‘ mass campaigns ’ , though the direction of influence has tended to be from the party leadership to the masses through propaganda , political education and mobilization exercises rather than from the masses upwards . |
| 26 | Pretend to be from the employment agency . ’ |
| 27 | Occasionally some of the other ranks could be seen driving old Chevvies ( they brought their own cars with them rather than risk going to local garages ) with number plates proclaiming their owners to be from the Potato or Sunshine States or , ironically , from the Land of the Free . |
| 28 | Thought to be from the 365th Bomb Sqn of the 305th Bomb Group . |
| 29 | Well the national account what you are saying is the national account if the work 's for is then responsible for all those accounts that happen to be from the national account manager . |
| 30 | He 's a rare well preserved example of a person originally thought to be from the bronze age . |