Example sentences of "have come from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Both animals , with many others , had come from the higher parts of the rivers .
32 They claimed the move had been simply to bring Scotland into line with England and Wales and that the initiative had come from the big bookmakers , who would be the main beneficiaries .
33 Sports editor Bob Edwell , who had come from the Daily Express in London , was looking for sports writers , and above all the paper needed its back bench staffed by the all-important sub-editors , who prepare the reporters ' words ( the copy ) for the paper , and write the headlines .
34 I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture .
35 The treasure had come from the French baggage captured at Vitoria in Spain , a country where Sergeant Patrick Harper had found both wealth and a wife .
36 At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house .
37 In relation to transfer , about 50 per cent of employment had come from the local area and almost 25 per cent from the region .
38 Most funding had come from the Urban Programme , amounting to about £9 million per annum .
39 The shot had come from the left fork .
40 So let me lay before you my own ideas , most of which have come from the practical application of regression therapy with a wide variety of patients who came to consult me for an even wider variety of reasons .
41 Not all the recent demands for new laws to deal with pornography have come from the moral Right .
42 Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry .
43 Only a minority of immigrants to the United Kingdom have come from the New Commonwealth , and this minority has decreased in absolute terms , and even more in proportional terms , since the mid-1960s .
44 Perhaps the most practical advances have come from the increased awareness of the perpetuating effects of starvation with its psychological , emotional , and physical sequelae .
45 Although Allied have been working steadily to free or sell their required quota of pubs under government rules , few of the disposals have come from the 700-plus London estate of Taylor Walker .
46 Since 1950 my influences have come from the Flemish Primitives , Frances de la Tour and Stanley Spencer .
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