Example sentences of "[noun] coming from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 2 | As well as the despairing cries of ‘ oops ! ’ from the light beams , she could now hear a muffled , mocking chant coming from the ray-gun box : ‘ Yah , yer missed ! |
| 3 | Half an hour later , descending the stairs , she was startled to hear voices coming from the first floor . |
| 4 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 5 | We were alone on deck , though not the only ones awake for I could hear Rickie and Ellen 's voices coming from the open skylight of the main saloon . |
| 6 | Male ‘ sex passion ’ was either the result of stimulation from external sensations , or of involuntary influences coming from the sexual organs themselves . |
| 7 | I recognized some pirated recordings of Sade in cabaret coming from the upper floor and , louder , some mid-period John Coltrane from the living-room . |
| 8 | Lying together in bed with creme brulee and champagne to hand , the only light coming from the soundless telly , curtains left open to the soft night , they talked over old times . |
| 9 | Lorry driver Mr Wynne , 47 , was woken by screams coming from the semi-detached house next door . |
| 10 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 11 | The country 's trade deficit was offset , in part , by the bulk of imports coming from the socialist bloc so that " hard " foreign exchange was not used . |
| 12 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 13 | In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time , such as a week . |
| 14 | There is no universal agreement , for example , that the mid-1970s represented a fundamental break in political attitudes — aspects of the ‘ new ’ capitalism coming from the Conservative party in the mid-1970s can be traced back to Churchill 's administration in the early 1950s ( Raban , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Now the amount received does n't look so wonderful with £600 coming from the regular saving and the measly £97.70 coming from interest earned . |
| 16 | The UDA/UFF is now well-armed , say security sources , with weapons coming from the shadowy Ulster Resistance set up after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 . |
| 17 | These pathological findings are in agreement with clinical studies , the most convincing evidence coming from the prospective community study in Framingham . |
| 18 | Instead , my attention was caught by the evidence coming from the hippocampal work , discussed in the last chapter , about the role of the phosphorylated proteins of the synaptic membrane . |
| 19 | The majestic river , bringing life from the sea to mingle with the fresh water coming from the wooded valleys of the Upper Thames , has withdrawn : it is like a very old face , once-beautiful skin shrunk and wizened , hollows and grey lines instead of rosy cheeks . |
| 20 | In April 1986 our 29-year-old son met a lorry coming from the opposite direction with a very heavy utility trailer in tow . |
| 21 | A distinctive , erratic song with some metallic-sounding notes coming from the hidden depths of a thicket had finally been identified as belonging to a bluethroat , surely one of the most beautiful small birds in Scandinavia . |
| 22 | Did I hear the faint chime of church bells coming from the drowned village ? |
| 23 | Central government paid 10 per cent of the cost of unemployment benefit , the remainder coming from the republican government . |
| 24 | Are they able to look without too dominant a preconception coming from the Western tradition ? |
| 25 | And make no mistake , although this has been introduced in a piecemeal and seemingly haphazard manner , it is in effect a well thought out policy , with the strategy coming from the Tory think-tanks and implemented with gusto by their close friends and allies in both public and private industry . |
| 26 | The effect of such a provision is to prevent any conduct of the business being construed as acceptance of any counter offer coming from the other party . |
| 27 | • Dwyer 's Wallabies walk on water — Steve Jones sees trouble coming from the new ruck/maul law |
| 28 | " Tarn " , by the way , is an interesting word coming from the Old Norse word for tear . |
| 29 | When using leaves to help identify a vine , the grower must take care to select samples from the mature foliage occurring beyond the sixth node from the base of a shoot coming from the previous year 's wood . |
| 30 | While Mr Major has signalled that he wants to leave the choice up to backbenchers , he is understood to favour the new Speaker coming from the Tory ranks , dashing Labour hopes that they might be able to nominate the next occupant of the Speaker 's chair . |