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

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1 A lot of support has come from local firms and from individuals like electricians and plumbers , said Mrs Coates .
2 In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) .
3 It has already been postulated that the intellectual origin of these criticisms lies in liberal political philosophy ; however , confirmation has come from empirical research .
4 New and more productive cereal cultivars have contributed their share to improved yields , but the biggest share in developed countries like the United States has come from increased use of fertilizers — 55 per cent between 1965 and 1976 , according to the New Delhi paper quoting an FAO estimate .
5 On the infrastructural side , most of the investment had come from Urban Programme and derelict-land grant sources .
6 A defence lawyer said both defendants had come from broken homes and had been brought up by their mothers .
7 Substantial balances have come from new customers while the overall average balances are higher than Gold 90 balances which are themselves significant .
8 In general , Ollero believes that European countries have similar opportunities to the US for developing innovative software , and says that many important ideas have come from small companies .
9 Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home .
10 Children whose families have come from other countries may have a whole range of skills that are not normally recognised in English schools .
11 Lack of money is holding them back — new sounds have to come from fresh effects pedals rather than a sampling machine — but the ambitions are burning : ‘ I do n't think we actually achieve the crossover , ’ admits Sam , with a who-gives-a-flying- f— -shrug , ‘ but that 's certainly what we want to do . ’
12 Within a year the fundraising campaign , which included selling note cards and T-shirts , had been completed , much of the money having come from local businesses and foundations .
13 Over the years more and more evidence consistent with the electroweak theory has come from numerous experiments not only at CERN but at particle accelerators throughout the world , and in 1979 , Heldon Glashow , Abdus Salam , and Steven Weinberg received the Nobel prize in recognition of their theoretical endeavours to unite the weak and electromagnetic forces .
14 Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland .
15 The initial legal advice had come from Foreign Office lawyers .
16 The initial legal advice had come from Foreign Office lawyers but the contrary advice came from Sir Nicholas .
17 When referrals have come from other professionals it is important to get back to the parents ' view rather than working from the information in the referral letter .
18 This season , the newcomers have come from other clubs but Miles and Martin Offiah , who , like Bell , scored two tries , Billy McGinty and Neil Cowie all illustrate the point .
19 Success has come from effective teamwork , a more focused strategy and stronger marketing .
20 Nonetheless , these linkages are not so tight that one can read off class self-identification from the hierarchical classification of occupations , in any of its variants : there is an area of overlap between manual and non-manual earnings ; many manual workers are now owner-occupiers ; many individuals in the higher occupations have come from manual backgrounds .
21 A major contribution to public awareness of the modern kite has come from exceptional kite flyers with artistic ability to create multi-coloured artforms .
22 Much of the improvement has come from increased sales into furniture foams , explained , commercial manager .
23 Much of the information has come from surviving aces and their families , giving an immediacy to the stories not always found in other books .
24 ‘ For this book , an awful lot has come from live people , her family , her friends .
25 The vehicles had come from diverse locations such as stately homes , shooting estates , garages , scrap yards and castles .
26 A number had come from scientific backgrounds , fathers ( usually ) were nuclear physicists , engineers , doctors or maths lecturers , and often provided an impetus to study science through discussion of it at home or through help with homework .
27 The antiquities for sale have come from private collections in London and New York , from auction rooms and the trade .
28 Initial funding had come from local businessmen and delegates — mostly businessmen themselves — from a dozen countries had paid their own air fares and hotel bills .
29 The great increase has come from domestic rates and the community charge , and we know who is responsible for that — high-spending Labour councils .
30 Inevitably , much of the stimulus for our changing views of the visual system has come from empirical studies but , over the past decade especially , attitudes have also been changed by the development of detailed theoretical models of how visual information processing might take place .
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