Example sentences of "coming [adv] from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level of imports increased by 300% between 1985 and 1986 , coming predominantly from the Eastern bloc , North Africa , and the Middle East . |
| 2 | Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise . |
| 3 | When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor . |
| 4 | The Macaber , the hooded , skeletal apparition , coming down from the Black Tower to dance amongst the plague-ridden townships of the Middle Ages , leading them in the dread danse macabre , forcing them to dance with him until they dropped … |
| 5 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
| 6 | From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him . |
| 7 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 8 | But coming in from the shabby streets outside , which smell of coal and cement dust and Wartburg exhausts , the effect is of life and excitement . |
| 9 | He knew that Garvey 's eyes could see nothing , coming in from the relative lightness outdoors . |
| 10 | A restructuring is under way — John McIntyre , vice-president of European Operations has gone , and Europe is now being split into two : the UK , where Engels has recently been appointed managing director , and the continent , where Terry Hall is coming in from the Australian operation to take charge . |
| 11 | These are believed to result , at least in part , from sewage pollution , although there is some evidence that nutrients are also coming in from the open sea . |
| 12 | The Suffolk traffic cops were well-known to be a lot keener than their Essex brethren and a van like this one coming away from a military establishment was a natural target at that time in the morning . |
| 13 | If you locked up one of these shawlies , as you were coming away from the Main Bridewell , you would usually find a deputation of shawlies coming running down the road . |
| 14 | There was one obvious difference : she was coming through from the Other Side . |
| 15 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 16 | ‘ It was our last day at Disney World and we were coming home from the Magic Kingdom , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ He just wanted to play cricket , ’ said Stanworth , ‘ and did n't mind coming straight from a full house at Leicester to a second team game at Southport . |
| 18 | The children who are coming up from the primary schools to secondary schools are going through a change themselves , and it would be such a broad area that we could integrate Science , English , Maths and everything under that sort of umbrella . |
| 19 | All gullies , whether they take waste water from upstairs fittings ( via a hopper head ) or waste from kitchen sinks , must have traps to prevent smells coming up from the underground drains . |
| 20 | You may be lucky enough to hear the sound , coming up from the very earth beneath your feet . |
| 21 | The first was coming back from a fruitless wait for Gríshnakh the orc , dead and burnt that same day , with the smoke from his burning ‘ seen by many watchful eyes ’ . |
| 22 | In a marathon match Harlow defeated his Ely club colleague Kevin King by 9–8 , 7–9 , 9–8 , coming back from a 8–6 deficit to engineer a last-end three . |
| 23 | McKenzie looked as if he might have done enough to retain his crown after coming back from a ninth-round crisis in which he was floored by a two-punch combination to the body . |
| 24 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 25 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 26 | A closed van was coming fast from the other direction , and the Montego was nose to tail with the car in front of it . |
| 27 | Well no it does n't , if there 's nothing , if there 's nothing coming round from the other way it does n't go . |
| 28 | Firstly , it was the result of a reduced number of pigs coming forward from a smaller sow herd and secondly , there was a drop in demand for beef resulting from the media coverage of the BSE scare . |
| 29 | The Central Council of the PLO , convened in Tunis on Oct. 15-17 , formally approved continuing Palestinian participation at the Middle East peace talks , but analysts believed that the margin of victory for the mainstream " pro-negotiation " factions was narrow , opposition coming principally from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) . |