Example sentences of "coming [adv] from the [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 | 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 … |
4 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He knew that Garvey 's eyes could see nothing , coming in from the relative lightness outdoors . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | There was one obvious difference : she was coming through from the Other Side . |
12 | ‘ It was our last day at Disney World and we were coming home from the Magic Kingdom , ’ she said . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | You may be lucky enough to hear the sound , coming up from the very earth beneath your feet . |
16 | 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 ? |
17 | 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 . |
18 | A closed van was coming fast from the other direction , and the Montego was nose to tail with the car in front of it . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 ) . |