Example sentences of "to come from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research proposals therefore tend to come from established departments , and also tend increasingly to consist of safe , conservative projects which have possibilities for future income-generation for the universities . |
| 2 | Simple explanations are likely to come from ill-founded prejudice rather than from detailed analysis of the admittedly poor data which exist on this topic . |
| 3 | So any increase in output will have to come from better farming methods , particularly in countries like India , whose rice farmers lag well behind Japan 's in productivity . |
| 4 | The government has said to the European Community that , of the 7.7-percentage-points improvement it hopes to make in the total public-sector deficit between 1992 and 1996 — from 9.6% of GDP to 1.9% — more than half , 4.1 percentage points , is to come from extra taxes . |
| 5 | The lead , believed to come from industrialised countries in the southern hemisphere , is at very low concentrations and does not pose a threat to living organisms . |
| 6 | Answer guide : Information about the future as repayment of any monies lent is likely to come from future profitability . |
| 7 | Professionals engaged in pre-school and early childhood education are likely to come from separate traditions and may have different perceptions as well as common goals . |
| 8 | By the late 1980s , only 19 per cent of the sulphur falling in the UK was estimated to come from other countries , the lowest percentage in Western Europe . |
| 9 | Often we prefer our figures to come from other sources if we feel these are more likely to be unbiased . |
| 10 | New roads that would need to be provided would therefore have to come from that direction and and it itself will cut a swathe through the open countryside . |
| 11 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 12 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 13 | No decision is likely to come from that avenue until New Zealand have had their regular meeting with the Australian officials in the near future . |
| 14 | The priorities for the deaf community will have to come from deaf people themselves but the effective use of Total Communication by deaf and hearing people offers a way towards a sharing of views . |
| 15 | Extra revenue was to come from higher telephone and unemployment insurance charges , but the cost of unification was still expected to increase the public-sector deficit above the DM140,000 million ( approximately US$94 , 580 million ) projected in December 1990 [ see p. 37904 ; for end-January rise in Federal Bank discount rate see p. 37978 ] . |
| 16 | Their members are appointed by the Secretary of State , with between 40% and 60% of the membership to come from higher education . |
| 17 | Those most in favour of recycling were in the 15-19 and 35-54 age groups , and tended to come from higher income earners in southern England . |
| 18 | This is a descriptive vote because this hundred er women are not a representative cross section of the whole of Scotland they 're invited to come from various places and ninety six of them think that animals deserve a better deal . |
| 19 | Writing in the pages of the Harvard Business Review she explains : ‘ Some managers experience the new managerial work as a loss of power because so much of their authority used to come from hierarchical positions . ’ |
| 20 | These seem to come from two kinds of sources ; either the Theatre Games of Viola Spolin ( 1963 ) or an extension of the widening of activities in drama lessons introduced by Brian Way . |
| 21 | The main threat to London 's share of global futures and options business is likely to come from existing exchanges on mainland Europe . |
| 22 | New moves tend to come from middle-class artists who have had the opportunity to absorb a great deal early and feel sufficiently confident in an educational and financially secure context to move it along . |
| 23 | In response to higher than expected government revenue in 1989 , as a result of an increase in the value of exports , especially oil , projected revenue for 1990 was set at naira 47,657million ( US$1.00=N 7.6627 as at Jan. 8 , 1990 ) , of which N 38,628 million was expected to come from crude oil export ( based on a estimated price of US$16 per barrel ) and N 9,029 million from non-oil sources . |
| 24 | New Speaker likely to come from Conservative ranks |
| 25 | In 1987 a team of scientists found small amounts of diamonds in meteorites which , because of their composition , seemed to come from interstellar space . |
| 26 | The impetus will have to come from older people themselves . |
| 27 | Revenue from tax and non-tax sources was estimated at TSh118,547 million , while some TSh85,653 million — about 42 per cent of the total budget — was expected to come from overseas donors . |
| 28 | Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ . |
| 29 | Even so , the bulk of the increase would have to come from improved yields , as it has in the past three decades . |
| 30 | If you are going to double student numbers , then the extra students are going to come from lower-income families and they will need a full grant . |