Example sentences of "[noun sg] come from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the plea come from a budding starlet or perhaps an Italian supermodel , Jagger would have tripped over his lips in an effort to scrawl his name — and perhaps his phone number — in her book for posterity . |
| 2 | The remainder come from the following categories : |
| 3 | But aid came from an unlikely quarter . |
| 4 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 5 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 6 | Left : This ornate boudoir couch came from a stately home |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The doors stayed open but no murmur came from the other room . |
| 9 | This time the interruption came from an unexpected source , as Lesley-Jane Decker leapt to the defence of her idol . |
| 10 | Support for the reform programme came from a loose coalition of liberal and independent deputies which , in the past , had been highly critical of British policy towards Hong Kong . |
| 11 | Shampoo came from a communal bottle . |
| 12 | The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs . |
| 13 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 14 | The study was empty ; the light came from the adjacent room . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The only light came from the big fire . |
| 17 | All the doors off it had been closed , and the only light came from the open archways at its beginning and end . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ( The word booze comes from the same source . ) |
| 23 | His pleasure comes from a different source : ‘ I am obviously very conscious of what my forebears achieved and therefore it matters to me that the business has survived , remained independent and has grown . ’ |
| 24 | Again , the term comes from the earliest attempts at explaining the disorder . |
| 25 | The echo comes from the whole disc , but because of this uniqueness the echo can be unscrambled to reveal the contributions to it from every pair of patches of planetary surface exemplified by X and Y. |
| 26 | The funding for this and the downtown programme comes from the fiftieth anniversary campaign , launched in 1988 by the museum 's board of trustees . |
| 27 | The only light comes from a metre-wide strip of sky fifty feet above , and the little that falls through the arch at the end . |
| 28 | As fluorescent light comes from a larger area the light is more diffuse and therefore produces less glare , and the flickering that was associated with the early form of fluorescent lighting should not be experienced now . |
| 29 | The power for the spring comes from the back legs and feet . |
| 30 | Saffron yellow comes from the dried pistils of the saffron crocus , but this plant is now extremely rare and the colour is exceptionally expensive . |