Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb -s] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most of my money comes from a trust fund . ’ |
| 2 | Dear Mr Hughes , my garden suffers from a lot of twitch . |
| 3 | My family comes from a region where people are very poor and very tough . |
| 4 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 5 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 6 | ( Some suggest that part of its secretiveness arises from a fear of becoming involved in the litigation instituted by injured patients . ) |
| 7 | Their argument begins from a position very similar to that of the restructuring school : that the loss of manufacturing jobs in urban areas is in part the resuIt of national shifts , from manufacturing to services , and towards higher unemployment . |
| 8 | ‘ Thus our membership varies from a 17-year-old to a retired company director and we want to attract even more employees to join our ranks . ’ |
| 9 | Our example comes from a pianoforte duet by Dvořák , ‘ Aus stürmischen Zeiten ’ , No. 6 of a set of pieces called Aus dem Böhmer Walde . |