Example sentences of "come from the [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other shortlisted entries in Category 1 came from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Help the Aged . |
| 2 | That common-sense approach to Brent came from the hon. Member for Brent , East ( Mr. Livingstone ) who , for those who may not remember , was the former leader of the Greater London council . |
| 3 | Both the initial idea and the financial backing came from the Inter-American Commission for Women ( OAS dependency ) and the project has been given no financial assistance from the government itself . |
| 4 | The name Nonesuch comes from the popular name for the plant botanists know as Lychnis chalcedonica . |
| 5 | The word ‘ petřín ’ comes from the medieval Latin for ‘ stone ’ , and it was from this land that much of Prague derived its building materials . |
| 6 | The word ‘ cataract ’ comes from the Latin word for waterfall and describes the appearance of the eye when the lens becomes cloudy and opaque . |