Example sentences of "[noun] come from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder come from the following categories : |
| 2 | Books came from the central library in Salisbury by the train load . |
| 3 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 4 | But anthropologists proved his theory was wrong ; the islanders came from the western Pacific . |
| 5 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 6 | The biggest Nazi vote came from the rural districts , and the lowest came from urban areas , where the SPD , KPD and DNVP were still firmly based . |
| 7 | The doors stayed open but no murmur came from the other room . |
| 8 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 9 | It was quite an exciting and exacting task to work out the meaning of basic Christian terms , for in Burmese almost all the abstract nouns and religious words came from the religious language of Buddhism . |
| 10 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 11 | The study was empty ; the light came from the adjacent room . |
| 12 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 13 | The only light came from the big fire . |
| 14 | All the doors off it had been closed , and the only light came from the open archways at its beginning and end . |
| 15 | Man 's early faith in the original ‘ god ’ forerunners came from the apparent success which on some occasions appeared to attend the involvement of them in the troubles that beset him . |
| 16 | The impetus for this study came from the disastrous upsurge in the levels of these diseases , particularly gonorrhoea , which was increasing at 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 17 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 18 | As well as the despairing cries of ‘ oops ! ’ from the light beams , she could now hear a muffled , mocking chant coming from the ray-gun box : ‘ Yah , yer missed ! |
| 19 | Half an hour later , descending the stairs , she was startled to hear voices coming from the first floor . |
| 20 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 21 | We were alone on deck , though not the only ones awake for I could hear Rickie and Ellen 's voices coming from the open skylight of the main saloon . |
| 22 | Male ‘ sex passion ’ was either the result of stimulation from external sensations , or of involuntary influences coming from the sexual organs themselves . |
| 23 | I recognized some pirated recordings of Sade in cabaret coming from the upper floor and , louder , some mid-period John Coltrane from the living-room . |
| 24 | Lying together in bed with creme brulee and champagne to hand , the only light coming from the soundless telly , curtains left open to the soft night , they talked over old times . |
| 25 | Lorry driver Mr Wynne , 47 , was woken by screams coming from the semi-detached house next door . |
| 26 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 27 | The two main sources of social data come from the inner world of the library and the outside world of living people . |
| 28 | ‘ The designs come from the same drawing pads as the haute couture I create — it 's what I would call ‘ my handwriting ’ , ’ he explains , ‘ but with clever fabric buying , we are keeping the prices down . |
| 29 | God 's constant watch over the created world is compared to that of a female bird caring for its young , or a woman suckling her child ( these images come from the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament ) . |
| 30 | ( The word booze comes from the same source . ) |