Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The remainder come from the following categories :
2 A chill wind came through the open doors to the balcony .
3 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 .
4 Light came through the stained-glass skylights , which were predominantly green and blue , and through a wall of windows of clear glass that held the faintest hint of turquoise .
5 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 .
6 All the doors off it had been closed , and the only light came from the open archways at its beginning and end .
7 Again , the term comes from the earliest attempts at explaining the disorder .
8 The power for the spring comes from the back legs and feet .
9 Saffron yellow comes from the dried pistils of the saffron crocus , but this plant is now extremely rare and the colour is exceptionally expensive .
10 Particularly noteworthy support came from the Joint Services Philatelic Consortium which has now raised £100,000 for the Appeal through the sale of philatelic covers .
11 Some of Cade 's allies in the city were men of position , although the bulk of his support came from the poorer classes ( 128 , pp.111 , 115 ) .
12 ‘ A runner came from the front trenches , down the communicating trench .
13 He was tumultuously cheered in the House of Commons that afternoon , although a good part of the enthusiasm came from the Labour benches .
14 Why , unicyle hockey of course : yes this is the latest sport to come from the playing fields , or grounds , of Oxford .
15 The breakthrough came as the United Nations commander in Bosnia , Gen Philippe Morillon , of France , said he had secured a pledge of help from Serbia 's president , Slobodan Milosevic .
16 The great cultural influence came from the monastic settlements , where the Cistercian Order was most active .
17 I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar .
18 Beccaria 's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment .
19 When we got out of the car , we found the only sound came from the chirping crickets .
20 The contrasting colour in the room comes from the bright rugs and the furniture , and , Mary Jane says ; ‘ We love things with natural vegetable dye shades .
21 The kit for doing the job comes with the necessary fittings so that the job of ‘ winding ’ the coil into one hole and out of the other after removing the pipes from the boiler should take only 15 minutes .
22 The initiative comes from the Operational Requirements Staffs of the Naval , General , and Air Staffs ( now part of the Central Staff under the latest reorganization of the Ministry , but still carrying out the same function — see page 175 ) .
23 I am told by the probation service , social workers , educationists , and those involved in the youth offenders institute in my constituency that the turning point comes in the late teens , when such offenders get a regular girl friend and decide that it is about time that they acted a little more responsibly .
24 The disk comes with the necessary programs to decode the 33,000 word dictionary , to allow you to edit , and to re-encode it for use with Scramble .
25 The disk comes with the necessary programs to decode the 33,000 word dictionary , to allow you to edit , and to re-encode it for use with Scramble .
26 Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship .
27 10.7 The most exhilarating race came in the 15 years class as the Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out a nailbiting finish with Louise just pipping Emma by 0.05 seconds .
28 The majestic river , bringing life from the sea to mingle with the fresh water coming from the wooded valleys of the Upper Thames , has withdrawn : it is like a very old face , once-beautiful skin shrunk and wizened , hollows and grey lines instead of rosy cheeks .
29 It comes , the comma comes inside the inverted commas .
30 More direct if under-stated evidence comes from the retrospective questions posed in the first official birth control enquiry in 1946 ( Lewis-Faning 1949 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) .
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