Example sentences of "the [noun] came from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the reduction came from the limited move away from the smaller sets towards the more advanced 60MW and 100MW designs which was possible within the conservative framework . |
| 2 | Strong opposition against the measure came from the Hindu communalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and other Hindu groups . |
| 3 | The advice on bending the rules came from the then Defence Minister , Alan Clark . |
| 4 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 5 | He was tumultuously cheered in the House of Commons that afternoon , although a good part of the enthusiasm came from the Labour benches . |
| 6 | The study was empty ; the light came from the adjacent room . |
| 7 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 10 | But anthropologists proved his theory was wrong ; the islanders came from the western Pacific . |
| 11 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 12 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The Rosenblooms came from the opposite end of Eastern Europe . |
| 15 | John was still only sixteen years old soft is probable that the real initiative for the invasion came from the unscrupulous Geoffrey , now apparently restored to his duchy ; Richard and Geoffrey had been formally reconciled in the summer of 1183 but the memory of the struggle for Limoges obviously still rankled . |
| 16 | The title came from the nineteenth-century paper produced by the Chartists that had combined satire with working-class reportage . |
| 17 | The majority of the prints came from the prestigious collection of the Bolognese conte Lodovico Aurelio Savioli , curator of the paintings , prints and drawings collection of the Elector Palatine Carl Theodor in the last quarter of the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | Much of the evidence , indeed , suggests that a substantial section of support for the WCTU came from the working class , and that it was not homogeneously white , Anglo-Saxon , Protestant , old middle class as Gusfield claims . |
| 19 | Perhaps the spiral designs originated in the ‘ Bandkeramik ’ of the Danube basin and arrived in Crete by way of the Cyclades , where stone pyxides were made with spiral ornaments ; but Stylianos Alexiou thinks it more likely that the spiral came from the Middle East , where it was used in gold wire jewellery from an early date . |
| 20 | The criticism came from the former senior chief inspector , Mr. Eric Bolton , who pointed out that , under Labour 's proposals , the inspectorate , instead of advising the Secretary of State directly , would have to rely on the secondment of some senior inspectors . |
| 21 | In the crypt is a simple chapel , the stone altar was the gift of the Netherlands Air Force , the black granite font the Norwegians , the candelabrum came from the Belgian Air Force . |
| 22 | There are also clear indications that although the assassinations may have been carried out by low-ranking army officers the orders came from the military high command . |
| 23 | Much of the concern came from the black communities : in 1971 Bernard Coard , a black teacher , published an influential document entitled How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School , while Afro-Caribbean parents and local teachers in Redbridge , frustrated by the relative lack of research and support , conducted their own investigation and in 1978 published disturbing evidence on the school performance of black children . |
| 24 | The warning came from the all party , defence select committee , whose Conservative chairman said the country 's defence capability had already been pared to the bone . |
| 25 | The attack came from the Royal College of Nursing after a series of recent reports concerning doctors and other medical professionals with HIV . |
| 26 | The report came from the Soviet Union where miners within the Arctic Circle are seeking better conditions . |
| 27 | Most of the lending came from the largest US Banks — Bankers Trust , Bank of America , Chase Manhattan , Chemical , Citicorp , Continental , Illinois , First Chicago , Manufacturers Hanover , Morgan Guaranty1 — and their counterparts in Japan , Germany , France and the UK . |
| 28 | Part of the difficulty with the image came from the noisy fears of the critics , especially those who insisted that comprehensive schools would , if they were to be as good as grammar schools , have to be huge . |
| 29 | The others came from the middle management layer . |
| 30 | The inspiration for the Convention came from the wide principles declared in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 . |