Example sentences of "[verb] come from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , three quarters of the fall in total mortality since 1970 has come from a reduction in deaths attributed to diseases of the circulatory system ( figure ) . |
| 2 | Funding has come from a variety of sources including the Wolfson Foundation and Charitable Trust , the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London , the British Glass Education Trust and private donations . |
| 3 | A CALL for a big shake-up in the structure of the Scottish leagues has come from a shock source . |
| 4 | Aid agencies all over the world have tried to ease their situation , but more immediate help has come from a Hereford farmer . |
| 5 | The only squeak of protest so far has come from a Law Society spokesman , Mr Jeremy Allen , who is also a Nottingham solicitor : ’ An enormous number of people had had their journeys interrupted and it has caused them concern . |
| 6 | The major contribution to informed debate about the search for sites for the disposal of nuclear wastes has come from a group of geographers ( Openshaw et al. 1989 ) and a GIS approach to this problem can pay high dividends . |
| 7 | Pressure has come from a number of sources in the economic , political , social and legal environment , and there is survey evidence to demonstrate a growth in the number of consultative committees now in operation . |
| 8 | Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat . |
| 9 | The bolts themselves can vary in size , and the example illustrated is quite small , probably having come from a box . |
| 10 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
| 11 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 12 | Compound documents of this type are traditionally assembled by layout artists from the various elements which may have come from a typesetting house , design studio , photographer or elsewhere . |
| 13 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 14 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 15 | His shiny black coat could have come from a labrador and there was a suggestion of terrier in the pointed nose and priced ears , but the long string-like tail and the knock-kneed fore limbs baffled me . |
| 16 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 17 | This might have come from a WEA rally . |
| 18 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 19 | This has a total of nine teeth set in three rows , and could well have come from a lock fitted to the door of a villa . |
| 20 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 21 | My feet were secured by a length of electric cable which could have come from a table lamp . |
| 22 | The angular , and in the case of the three women at the extreme left and right of the Demoiselles , rather ‘ faceted ’ appearance of the figures , and the heavy , chalky highlights found in certain parts of the drapery could well have come from a study of El Greco 's work . |
| 23 | It turned out to have come from a machine in a nearby corridor . |
| 24 | It may be genuine , but is likely to have come from a bifolium or double sheet . |
| 25 | Radar can provide a more direct determination of axial period if there is a feature in the echo that can be inferred to have come from a surface feature on the planet , such as a mountain or a region with a particular composition or texture . |
| 26 | I made the choice at random , the sole criterion being that a book had to have come from a library and have a recognisable sign of its origin . |
| 27 | The order , put at about £500m , was reported to have come from a group of British fund managers acting through Barclays Bank in London . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , master , ’ I neighed , ‘ I 've come from a country on the other side of the world . |
| 29 | " I 've come from a bit farther than Chelsea tonight , " |
| 30 | And yet because you 've come from a P A Y E background , you feel you 've got to get up in the morning , and go to work . |