Example sentences of "[noun sg] came from [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impetus for this research came from two sources . |
| 2 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
| 3 | As he spoke , a figure came from one of the stables leading a horse . |
| 4 | The only natural light came from two high curved windows . |
| 5 | They were at floor-level , and beyond the empty ranks of seats above them the only light came from two dim green EXIT signs . |
| 6 | Saracen opposition came from two powerful Ommayad kings of Cordova : Abd ar-Rahman ( 756–788 ) and Hisham ( 788–807 ) . |
| 7 | It was emphasised that only limited information was available about the performance of Access students in higher education , and that the vast majority of students who had completed their higher education course came from one Access course . |
| 8 | The officers came several other times to check and finally found out that the smell came from two local garbage mountains . |
| 9 | Support came from one unlikely quarter , Peter Bottomley , the Northern Ireland minister . |
| 10 | The idea for the branch came from four nurses at South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 11 | At this moment a loud banging noise came from one of the upstairs windows . |
| 12 | Two served for the county as a whole , the remainder came from eleven boroughs . |
| 13 | A collection of cult equipment came from one room and an archive tablet collection from another . |
| 14 | The breakthrough came from one of Eddy 's colleagues , Ronald Gilliland , who also works at the High Altitude Observatory . |
| 15 | The only tough questions at the meeting came from three Dutch investment advisers who were representing family trusts with about £25million of Bond group convertible bonds . |
| 16 | In other words the impetus which took the community into school and the school into the community came from two different directions . |
| 17 | The most important exponents of these beliefs in the inter-war period came from three organizations : the Britons Society , the Imperial Fascist League and the Nordic League . |
| 18 | Departure came from one instant to the next , without any whistles blowing , horns sounding or general ballyhoo . |
| 19 | The participants in the seminar came from eight European countries and a number of international agencies . |
| 20 | The hollow barking of a dog came from one of the stone sheds , but there was no sign of life around the buildings . |
| 21 | But perhaps the most telling comment came from one elderly farmer who has seen it all before . |
| 22 | The offer came from one of the industry 's most powerful promoters , Mel Bush , whose thirty years in the music business has brought collaboration with virtually every major star — including Mick Jagger , David Bowie , Elton John and Bryan Ferry — believed Kylie 's pulling power would have filled London 's Wembley Arena for a record ten successive nights . |
| 23 | The third collection came from one of the southern subspecies of European eagle owl , which is smaller and lighter in colour than the northern populations . |
| 24 | Outside the political arena powerful support for the policy came from two sources : the City and the Treasury [ Day , 1954 ; Radcliffe , 1959 ] . |
| 25 | This simply can not happen , unless the speech and the surface-noise came from two different sources . |
| 26 | The first performance came from two people in white radiation suits who walked on to the stage carrying a dustbin allegedly containing nuclear waste . |
| 27 | Some of my favourite music came from 1964 . ’ |
| 28 | When Medau was accepted as a subject for the Duke of Edinburgh 's Award Scheme , the first success came from one of Ann 's pupils . |
| 29 | The voice came from one of the mortar team over by the orchard wall . |
| 30 | In particular no heat came from 8 mm rods , one of which they started charging at Christmas and which was still being charged in March . |