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

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1 At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place .
2 These are believed to come from beyond the Solar system , i.e. from interstellar space , the space between the stars .
3 I do n't know I do n't know who Mr is referring to er Chair , but I presume you wish me to reply to some comments that came from across the other side of the room .
4 Some of them even came from within the nuclear fold , concerned that the truth should be told from the inside out .
5 There was a strange rasping noise coming from over the next rise .
6 Muldoon rose immediately from his enormous black leather chair to greet him , coming from behind the vast desk with hand outstretched .
7 This showed that the radiation must come from beyond the Solar System , and even from beyond the galaxy , as otherwise it would vary as the movement of Earth pointed the detector in different directions .
8 If crime is learned from others ( as differential association proposes ) where did it come from in the first place ?
9 The answer , quantum theory tells us , is that the particles do not come from within the black hole , but from the " empty " space just outside the black hole 's event horizon !
10 Jones is expressing three central and fundamentally related features of Idealist ethics : the idea of service ; the acceptance of one 's position in society and a willingness to perform allotted tasks to the best of one 's ability ; and the belief that morality can not be imposed by external forces , but that it must come from within the individual personality .
11 Rich hauls of lead weights also come from beneath the matted seaweed that grows at the foot of harbour walls and breakwaters .
12 And , as I stressed earlier , the props for such beliefs come from within the black community : black kids tell each other stories about how difficult it is to get a decent job if you are black and , in a self-fulfilling way , it does becomes difficult .
13 Perhaps they arise because the government does not recognize the true costs of its new policies , or perhaps because of a resistance to making a particular policy effective which comes from within the central government machine .
14 OPPOSITION to economic policy now comes from within the Conservative Party .
15 ‘ Now , does anybody know where all that cotton comes from in the first place ? ’
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