Example sentences of "come from " in BNC.

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1 The balance of funding has come from trusts , companies , churches and individuals .
2 Since almost all those on death row come from impoverished backgrounds they lack the funds to hire their own attorney and will be appointed counsel by the Court .
3 It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement .
4 So where does the desire to be up and doing come from ?
5 It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough .
6 Her own father , Solomon Klinitsky-Klein ( sometimes Kline , who was born at Vilkaviki ; the other side of the family come from Vilna ) , was hugely influential there ; through his books , notably his Lexicon Of Hebrew Homonyms which received excellent reviews in North America , Great Britain and Israel when published , became very well known in his adopted land .
7 It must have come from Colin 's collection .
8 ‘ There 's only a few minutes left , they 'll never … wait wait , Steven has it , he 's come from nowhere and yes , he 's going for a shot ! … ’
9 Although Allied have been working steadily to free or sell their required quota of pubs under government rules , few of the disposals have come from the 700-plus London estate of Taylor Walker .
10 Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking .
11 Even negation has not come from me . ’
12 The recent revival of interest in psychoanalysis among literary theorists has come from France , and in particular from the work of Jacques Lacan , who brought together Freud and Saussure and produced the slogan , ‘ the unconscious is structured like a language ’ .
13 An awkward truth though is that in the twentieth century some of the most committed political criticism has come from conservatives , like Eliot and the Southern Agrarians .
14 True independence and self-determination come from recognising that we not only have responsibility for ourselves , but also obligations to others .
15 The South Americans have come from a five-nation tournament in Hamburg , where they beat Spain 2-1 and lost to Australia 3-2 .
16 The loveliest remarks on this phenomenon come from the corporate convenience food conveyancers .
17 There was ‘ vague information ’ that the person concerned might have eaten an egg which may have come from the monastery , Mother Catherine said .
18 The eggs are reported to have come from the monastery .
19 Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland .
20 His influence on Margaret Thatcher has been acknowledged — particularly his insistence that many problems associated with the quality of life come from low productivity and bad management .
21 The argument that a ban will drive ivory trading underground is plainly absurd , since up to 90 per cent of all ivory currently in trade has come from elephants illegally slaughtered by poachers .
22 It was , he said , a ‘ good time for us as Conservatives to think afresh about the direction of British politics ; about where we have come from , what we are doing , and where the future is taking our nation and our party . ’
23 He said the only details available , apart from a death certificate , had come from Mr Garrod 's family .
24 The Wonder Stuff come from Stourbridge , in the West Midlands , and have never been shy about saying so .
25 Where will the resources to make/supply the product come from ?
26 Yesterday when a shot was fired , everybody instinctively ducked and looked to where they thought the shot had come from .
27 From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared .
28 Substantial cash help has also come from the National Heritage Memorial Fund ( £40,000 ) , the Countryside Commission for Scotland ( £40,000 ) , the Christopher Brasher Trust ( £30,000 ) and many others .
29 Its name come from a Gaelic word Lagh which meant Law — Mountain of Lawgiving .
30 Peter has just come from California to make ‘ a film of English life ’ which will involve the reconstruction of an English residence in Hollywood .
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