Example sentences of "was from the [noun] " 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 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 3 | Clare 's cry was from the heart . |
| 4 | I would n't know if it was from the heart of Palmolive 's Flakes Department or Mrs Beaton 's Home Cooking Department . |
| 5 | It was from the credit that the , I went the education secretary his , his secretary was retiring and er he came for me because he knew I knew Guild and Co-operative work you know . |
| 6 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 7 | Painting was from the beginning one of the most important instruments of conquest in the sphere of thinking , the mind . |
| 8 | But it was from the beginning an erotic exercise . |
| 9 | It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory . |
| 10 | Basil 's widowed father , a natural son of the Earl of Sandwich , formed part of Wordsworth 's circle of London friends , and the proposal that Wordsworth and Dorothy should become responsible for the child was from the beginning an important part of their plans for life at Racedown . |
| 11 | In Christ all things have become new , and yet everything remains as it was from the beginning … ’ |
| 12 | Nineteen twenty-two was from the beginning an uneasy year for the Coalition . |
| 13 | And it was from the beginning the case in a more general Marxist tradition , which has been especially active and , it should be stressed , diverse in recent years . |
| 14 | On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year . |
| 15 | The CNAA was from the beginning anxious to ensure progress towards greater democratic government in institutions , particularly , as we have seen , in the creation and proper functioning of academic boards . |
| 16 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 17 | Headlines like RAPIST OF 16 WAS LIKE A VULTURE GOING IN FOR THE KILL and TOMBSTONE RAPIST LIKE A VULTURE ? couple of popular dailies , but the first was from The Times and the second from the Sun . |
| 18 | And then he said suddenly , ‘ That phone call Ah was waitin' fur — it was from the hotel Iris had given me as her address in Lima . |
| 19 | There is only one reported case associated with minor dermatological surgery and that was from the United States in 1987 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Love apples , ’ she had said to Mark , and the words ‘ love apple ’ had somehow given a name to the district , strange and different as it was from the rest of the parish which lay over the other side of the main road , far from the railway line . |
| 22 | She was from the hareem of Um Hamed , a large and powerful hareem dominated by Um Hamed 's mother-in-law . |
| 23 | The other report was from the DC who had called on Garland 's daughter , Anna , and her mother . |
| 24 | The entire replica fleet aboard the carrier flown was from the deck into the rising sun of the east in some of the most visually stunning scenes of the film . |
| 25 | It was at Brives-la-Gaillarde that he was elevated to the kingship , and it was from the cities of Aquitaine that he received the oaths of loyalty , which most kings must have taken by proxy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A complex lighting system had once worked , but now the only illumination was from the gaps in the roof which allowed streams of sunlight to pour through into the empty , lifeless environment . |
| 28 | He was from the south side of the dale , which by custom went to Cotherstone , whilst we on our side went to Romaldkirk . |
| 29 | The only valuation evidence was from the valuer called by the defendants ( who was not cross-examined ) and who put the value of Caliban at between $2.1 and $2.3m . |
| 30 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |