Example sentences of "[noun pl] come from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books came from the central library in Salisbury by the train load . |
| 2 | But anthropologists proved his theory was wrong ; the islanders came from the western Pacific . |
| 3 | Many of the speakers came from a local government background , having spent years in social services or as councillors . |
| 4 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Half an hour later , descending the stairs , she was startled to hear voices coming from the first floor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Male ‘ sex passion ’ was either the result of stimulation from external sensations , or of involuntary influences coming from the sexual organs themselves . |
| 12 | Lorry driver Mr Wynne , 47 , was woken by screams coming from the semi-detached house next door . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and owe allegiance to a wide diversity of schools of thought . |
| 15 | Volatile organic compounds come from a wide variety of sources , both man-made and natural . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Evidence of religious aspects comes from a sculptured relief of a hunter god , of which Professor J. M. C. Toynbee has written : ‘ even in its mutilated state , ( it ) is one of the most satisfying extant pieces of Romano-British sculpture known to us ’ , though it consists only of the torso . |
| 19 | If the key role in opposing James 's pro-Catholic policies came from the Anglican establishment , and in particular from the clergy , how did they justify doing this , given their professed attachment to the principles of non-resistance and passive obedience ? |
| 20 | Another view of the need to rebuild British cities came from an old school : the garden city movement . |
| 21 | Instead of being ‘ designed ’ , the mishmash of typefaces , type sizes , screaming headlines , jumbled-up articles and unrelated snippets came from an organic process . |
| 22 | The advice on bending the rules came from the then Defence Minister , Alan Clark . |
| 23 | What representations have the Government made about the new proposal , particularly in Latvia , to restrict citizenship to those whose descendants came from the Baltic states and to those who speak the Baltic languages ? |
| 24 | His eagles came from a 15-yard bunker shot at the eighth and a putt of similar distance at the eleventh . |
| 25 | Most of the comments on links with parents came from the primary sector |
| 26 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 27 | Most of these belts came from a nearby village of Winshill . |
| 28 | During February visitors came from the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences and in the same month there was an official visit by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Ministry for State Education . |
| 29 | Before the union was formed the tariff against all outsiders was not prohibitive , and the home country 's imports came from the lowest cost source namely , the rest of the world . |
| 30 | The country 's trade deficit was offset , in part , by the bulk of imports coming from the socialist bloc so that " hard " foreign exchange was not used . |