Example sentences of "[det] came [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances .
2 As might be expected , very few came from middle-class suburbs like Newington , Morningside or the West End , practically none from the squares of the New Town , and very few from outlying villages or districts .
3 This came under heavy fire for implying that small firms set up without planning permission should only have enforcement orders issued against them if alternative premises were available .
4 That came as total news to Ruth .
5 That came in this morning
6 Do you know where that came from that book ?
7 One of Laura 's favourite psychological ploys , to pre-empt criticism , was telling people how like Bernard they were themselves ; Ari , Tim Clifford and her own daughter Jane , all came into this category but were , in reality , quite dissimilar .
8 I prayed that condoms were like stretch stockings and all came in one size .
9 The chicken came in a box and the plastic cutlery , salt , pepper and freshen-up tissue all came in sealed envelopes designed for people with two hands .
10 cos they only told me bits , they all came round this morning and er , we were having a laugh actually , it was
11 They all came from similar backgrounds and , as like minds , they were all congregating at the same place for the same reasons .
12 It is probable , however , that this was an exception rather than the rule — most deaf people before the start of deaf education did not marry , and those that did , like Sir John Gawdy , Sir Edward Gostwicke and Alexander Popham , all came from wealthy families where there was a desire to continue the family line and marriages were made with daughters of families that were of the landed gentry .
13 My timber all came from local sources : by pure chance one timber yard had recently acquired an elm butt and I purchased the first board ( a huge log sawn into 2in boards — the real stuff ) .
14 The basic chemical structure common to promethazine and chlorpromazine provided a good basis from which to begin the search for compounds which were better than chlorpromazine , and in the next few years many came into clinical use .
15 Not that many came on any sort of regular basis , much preferring the excitement of the streets to the acquisition of learning for which even the teacher herself , who had known far better days , considered they would have little use .
16 The largest group of immigrants came from within a 5-mile radius , but almost as many came from 5–10 miles and as many again from beyond 20 miles ; only half this number came from between 10 and 20 miles .
17 Many came from academic families , and most were employed in prestigious women 's colleges on the East Coast of the US ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 ) .
18 This was due not so much , as now , to divorce or separation ( the former was expensive and rare , though not unheard of , among the labouring poor ; the latter came into legal existence in 1876 ) as to death and desertion .
19 An example of the former came from Continental FC 's captain Barry Dennis , who , having left school , went to college where he gained a Full Technological Certificate enabling him to take a position in the computer industry .
20 We both came in one day and said we felt a bit odd after reading all that , we felt there were psychological jammers in the thing
21 Both came from Western backgrounds , and both had received proper military training .
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