Example sentences of "[noun] come from the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anthropologists proved his theory was wrong ; the islanders came from the western Pacific . |
| 2 | The UDA/UFF is now well-armed , say security sources , with weapons coming from the shadowy Ulster Resistance set up after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 . |
| 3 | John was still only sixteen years old soft is probable that the real initiative for the invasion came from the unscrupulous Geoffrey , now apparently restored to his duchy ; Richard and Geoffrey had been formally reconciled in the summer of 1183 but the memory of the struggle for Limoges obviously still rankled . |
| 4 | The black fungal mass of her sex quivered , and odd sounds came from the Green Jack 's hollow mouth , like whistling gasps . |
| 5 | The main competition for the Royal Oak comes from the Black Bull , an old coaching inn also located in the town centre , and from the Leofric , a two-year-old motel located on the outskirts of the town close to both motorways . |
| 6 | The oldest known rocks from the ocean floor come from the western Pacific , but these are only of Jurassic age . |
| 7 | Most of the lending came from the largest US Banks — Bankers Trust , Bank of America , Chase Manhattan , Chemical , Citicorp , Continental , Illinois , First Chicago , Manufacturers Hanover , Morgan Guaranty1 — and their counterparts in Japan , Germany , France and the UK . |
| 8 | The incitement to murder Mr Rushdie came from the late Ayatollah Khomeini for alleged blasphemy in his book The Satanic Verses . |
| 9 | The big worry for Town is that Arsenal 's goal came from the prolific Ian Wright , his 23rd this season , although it was only The Gunners ' fourth goal in 15 games . |
| 10 | This butterflyfish comes from the Tropical Atlantic and the Caribbean . |
| 11 | Bundesrat representatives came from the 10 Land ( state ) governments , of which the SPD now controlled six including the cities of Bremen and Hamburg ; the SPD also controlled West Berlin , in coalition with the Greens , but West Berlin did not have voting representation in the Bundesrat . |
| 12 | Mabel , whose mother came from the wealthy de Veres , had by the time of her father 's death married into the Francheville family , and she was not the sort of woman to throw away her rightful inheritance without a struggle . |