Example sentences of "come from the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture . |
| 2 | If some clarity of purpose and coherence of action is to take the place of this drift , the ideas and energy ought to come from the political parties because , in theory , they are supposed to provide the driving force in political development . |
| 3 | The jaw movements of some dinosaurs could have a grinding motion like mammals , but most of the mobility came from the upper jaw as it virtually expanded over the lower one . |
| 4 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 5 | EWM 's auditors — who came from the same firm as the rider 's accountant — suggested the link-up . |
| 6 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 7 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 8 | Although they spoke German and came from the same backgrounds as their charges , they were often young and inexperienced and unprepared for the demands of the work . |
| 9 | Coming from the same background as those on the front line gives Tony Davidson of Provincial Insurance a mission to explain all the business 's activities , says Neil Fitzgerald . |
| 10 | They come from the roughest jails where they expect trouble all the time . |
| 11 | Again , most come from the local supermarket except for the small , but spectacular scarlet ‘ Flamboyant ’ , brought more than 30 years ago . |
| 12 | The alabaster freizes of monks with scatalogical Latin inscriptions created by Henry Poole for the Blackfriar in c.1905 come from the same tradition as the eclectic and irreverent use of ethnic imagery and architectural detail built into the new Horniman at Hays Galleria of 1986 . |
| 13 | Although they come from the same family as the more familiar Corydoras , they differ in both body shape and breeding habit . |
| 14 | Friends of the Earth comes from the same womb as Greenpeace , the Sierra Club . |
| 15 | Mandrake comes from the same family as the potato ( once thought to be endowed with aphrodisiac powers itself ) . |
| 16 | Across look cos that comes from the grave look if you go round his fence there . |