Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have come [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions . |
| 2 | James 's comment , when the news of her birth was brought to him , that ‘ it cam wi' a lass and it will gang wi' a lass ’ ( a reference to the way in which the house of Stewart had come to the throne , through the marriage of Walter the Steward to Robert Bruce 's daughter Marjorie ) may be apocryphal and was , as it turned out , inaccurate ; the ‘ lass ’ who was to bring Stewart rule to an end was not Queen Mary , but Queen Anne in 1714 . |
| 3 | Similar support for a modified accelerator theory as a determinant of investment has come from the recent studies of Catinat ( 1991 ) and Ford and Poret ( 1990 ) . |
| 4 | AUTUMN-drilled crops in Scotland and the north of England have come through the winter best , according to the Home-Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Wiltshire-based Regency and West of England has come to the aid of small savers with a minimum of £500 to invest . |
| 6 | A second indication that these receptors might be involved in the induction of LTP has come from the finding that aminocylopentane dicarboxylate ( ACPD ) , the 1S,3R-enantiomer of which is a specific agonist for mGluRs , can augment tetanus-induced potentiation . |
| 7 | A shriek of laughter had come from the bedroom . |
| 8 | They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction . |
| 9 | In relation to transfer , about 50 per cent of employment had come from the local area and almost 25 per cent from the region . |
| 10 | The head of science had come to the library committee with a prior interest in language and science . |
| 11 | A slice of Broadway has come to the region in the shape of an all-singing , all-dancing spectacular . |
| 12 | Marietta of Patras had come from the Morea in the train of Helen Paleologa , wife of John , King of Cyprus . |
| 13 | The villages of Oxfordshire have come under the microscope of the Women 's Institute in the new Oxfordshire village book . |
| 14 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 15 | Not all the recent demands for new laws to deal with pornography have come from the moral Right . |
| 16 | Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ . |
| 17 | And , yes , it was made by Kemp , although some doubt could quite properly have been harboured on the matter : Ashenden knew the man , and knew his voice ; and in spite of what was probably a poorish extension-line , confirmation that the call was from Kemp had come from the telephone-operator , someone else who knew him — knew him very well , in fact . |
| 18 | A farmer from Hereford has come to the aid of children at a Romanian Orphange . |
| 19 | For over five years , news from CCG has come under the banner What 's Cooking ? , but as the company has grown to include a wide range of other services as well as catering , we felt that title was no longer appropriate . |
| 20 | Much of the spur for the tight rein which has been kept on emotion has come from the players themselves after their 10-9 victory over England at Cardiff a fortnight ago . |
| 21 | Overall , more than nine out of ten ( 93% ) of the very recent ( post-1976 ) publications issued to readers had come to the Library under copyright deposit legislation , the remainder having been acquired by purchase ( 6% ) or donation ( 2% ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Unfortunately my marriage to Andrew has come to the end . |
| 23 | Labour 's spokesman on food had come to the House thinking — unwisely as it soon turned out — that he was going to roast Mr Gummer . |