Example sentences of "was from [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was from Bradford West . |
| 2 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 3 | Chemicals for radioimmunoassay were from Amersham International except PGE 2 antiserum , which was from Sigma Chemical Company . |
| 4 | He had left his outer clothes downstairs and he wore his cheap Latvian suit with its wide trouser bottoms as though it was from Savile Row . |
| 5 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 6 | His degree in commerce was from Birmingham University . |
| 7 | Immunoprecipitation was from JM cell extracts with either anti-Rb monoclonal antibody IF8 ( ref. 29 ) or a control monoclonal antibody A7 . |
| 8 | He said his name was Pearson , he was from coypu control and would it be all right for him to take a look round the lake ? |
| 9 | In fact it was from Vic Furlong 's shop that David bought his first saxaphone . |
| 10 | The injured youth , Nuri Mahmud , was from Janab lineage , and so the Zuwaya concerned met in the house of the son of the Ajdabiya shaikh of the Janab . |
| 11 | Going absently to see what it was , Greg found it was from Somerset House . |
| 12 | This was made worse because most of our second phase was from ruck ball as opposed to their reliance on mauls , which kept forward momentum going . |
| 13 | If the rent was from non-UK land there will have been no tax charges under general principles although the income may be assessed under TA 1988 , Part XV or TA 1988 , ss739 or 734 or , if it is paid out in an income form to a UK beneficiary , it may be assessed on the beneficiary under Schedule D , Cases IV or V. The position with regard to dividends received by overseas discretionary trusts where the income is then paid out to a beneficiary is complicated because of the way in which the 10 per cent additional rate charge is levied . |
| 14 | The oddest call she had was from Teesside airport , where one was stuck up a drainpipe making squeaking noises . |
| 15 | Weelkes also covered a vast range , from the dancing ballet ‘ On the plains ’ to the great picturesque ‘ Thule , the period of cosmography ’ , the piercing chromatic anguish of ‘ O Care , thou wilt despatch me ’ with its ironic ‘ fa-las ’ , and the dazzling counterpoint of ‘ As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending ’ . |
| 16 | Tasting it , Comfort thought that it was as different from English apple pie as champagne was from soda water . |
| 17 | It 's the third time in a year Johnson has escaped — his last breakout was from Maidstone Prison . |
| 18 | The lowest price submitted for the work , £232,024 , was from John Kelk of No. 13 South Street , Grosvenor Square , who had already carried out some work for the Government , but is better known as a railway contractor . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most remarkable inch loss of all was from Mollie Slack , one of my early volunteers from Radio Nottingham . |
| 20 | It was soon realised however , that a lot of time could be saved if access to the colliery was from Duckmanton South , and the embankment was cleared for a new section of line . |
| 21 | The main threat was from ground fire . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most serious dispersal of this kind was from Brent Library in the mid-1980s . |