Example sentences of "[pron] came from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came from the very opposite . |
| 2 | Most of them came from the single European act . |
| 3 | Governments and organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) and the Council of Europe sought steps to contain both the influx of migrants , many of whom came from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and the rise of racist sentiment . |
| 4 | Others put the current figure for the Roman Catholics alone at about 1,500,000 , the majority of whom came from the Hungarian and German minorities . |
| 5 | Now I have a figure in front of me which came from the International Air Transport Association who say that in January something in the order of sixteen flights were cancelled , and airlines lost more than five hundred million pounds in revenue , of which three hundred million was lost by European airlines . |
| 6 | The Chedworth crosses were all cut on the stones which came from the octagonal basin of the nymphaeum . |
| 7 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 8 | This is , for instance , why sensible Czech politicians support the idea which came from the Slovak National Council that the federation should be based on two strong national republics which will delegate some powers up to the federal government and not vice-versa . |
| 9 | Called ‘ porter ’ after the Covent Garden market porters who drank it , it was characterised by its distinct , dark colour , which came from the roasted barley it contained . |
| 10 | The squadron also flew the Iraq Levies , A sort of RAF Regiment of the day , they were mainly Kurds who came from the far north of Iraq excellent soldiers but poor airmen who generally laid their breakfast on the cabin floor whilst we were taxying , to take-off . |
| 11 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 12 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 13 | I was married to Bernard Parkin for fifteen years , a man who came from the lower middle class , but identified quite violently , for a number of years , with the workers . |
| 14 | At one time he also had a nanny , who came from the German-speaking part of Switzerland . |
| 15 | Yentob and his colleague Michael Jackson , who came from The Late Show to run the music and arts department , are picking up warm endorsements for assuming Channel 4 's mantle of experiment . |
| 16 | She pinned her thoughts on Rosemary , her friend and neighbour from across the corridor , who came from the same sizeable Dorset village that she did . |
| 17 | EWM 's auditors — who came from the same firm as the rider 's accountant — suggested the link-up . |
| 18 | The popes had to come to terms with the nobles and those who came from the noble families of the city naturally built up their own families and factions in order to survive . |
| 19 | But her words were interrupted by Silas , who came from the main office . |
| 20 | All I needed was 10 pence — which was what you had to pay in those days if you said you came from the previous stop — but I did n't even have that . |
| 21 | ‘ That means you came from the same egg . |
| 22 | Finance for the computer system itself came from the European Community PHARE programme . |
| 23 | They came from the right hon. Member for Brent , North ( Sir R. Boyson ) ; from the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ; from the hon. Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. |
| 24 | They came from the armed forces , from war work , from factory , farm , workshop and office . |
| 25 | From the 1960s to the 1980s , they came from the impoverished north-eastern states — Paraiba , Pernambuco , Bahia and Minas Gerais — to find shelter , food and livelihood in a city that has expelled them . |
| 26 | As for the clothes , money and jewellery sported by many locals , they came from the gruesome supply of drowned bodies that were washed ashore each morning on the high tide . |
| 27 | They came from the four corners of the world , east and west , north and south , and they spoke many languages . |
| 28 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 29 | They came from the big houses down the loch or over the pass towards Loch Lomond , or the castle at Inverary , from miles and miles , little girls in furred and caped coats and dresses gathered into heavy bows behind the cascades of ringlets . |
| 30 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |