Example sentences of "[noun] comes [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the term comes from the earliest attempts at explaining the disorder . |
| 2 | The power for the spring comes from the back legs and feet . |
| 3 | Saffron yellow comes from the dried pistils of the saffron crocus , but this plant is now extremely rare and the colour is exceptionally expensive . |
| 4 | The information which appears on Skymaster comes from the same computers at Heathrow which churn out the printed stuff so you can guarantee that the data is accurate and changes reach you faster than they normally would on the paper system . |
| 5 | Beccaria 's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment . |
| 6 | The contrasting colour in the room comes from the bright rugs and the furniture , and , Mary Jane says ; ‘ We love things with natural vegetable dye shades . |
| 7 | The kit for doing the job comes with the necessary fittings so that the job of ‘ winding ’ the coil into one hole and out of the other after removing the pipes from the boiler should take only 15 minutes . |
| 8 | The initiative comes from the Operational Requirements Staffs of the Naval , General , and Air Staffs ( now part of the Central Staff under the latest reorganization of the Ministry , but still carrying out the same function — see page 175 ) . |
| 9 | I am told by the probation service , social workers , educationists , and those involved in the youth offenders institute in my constituency that the turning point comes in the late teens , when such offenders get a regular girl friend and decide that it is about time that they acted a little more responsibly . |
| 10 | The disk comes with the necessary programs to decode the 33,000 word dictionary , to allow you to edit , and to re-encode it for use with Scramble . |
| 11 | The disk comes with the necessary programs to decode the 33,000 word dictionary , to allow you to edit , and to re-encode it for use with Scramble . |
| 12 | It comes , the comma comes inside the inverted commas . |
| 13 | Emus come from the bushlands of Australia and the Common Rhea comes from the open pampas grasslands of the Argentine , South America . |
| 14 | More direct if under-stated evidence comes from the retrospective questions posed in the first official birth control enquiry in 1946 ( Lewis-Faning 1949 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 15 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 16 | When an expert system is used to produce some advice or a report , the expertise underlying the output comes from the following sources : the experts who provided the knowledge , the persons ( sometimes called " knowledge engineers " ) who refined the knowledge and formalized it so that it could be installed in the knowledge-base , the persons who wrote the inference engine and the user interface ( or adapted existing ones ) , the user of the system . |
| 17 | Their family name comes from the Malay tupai , meaning small , squirrel-like animal . |
| 18 | The name comes from the Greek hippos ( horse ) . |
| 19 | In my view the central threat to the countryside comes from the sheer numbers of people who want to buy a piece of it . |
| 20 | Some support for evolutionary theories comes from the comparative findings , which show that high maximum lifespans in optimal conditions ( cited in the introduction ) occur in creatures with a low risk of mortality in nature , and hence with strong selection maintaining late life . |
| 21 | our rugby action this week comes from the divisional championships … the South West are on course to win these because on Saturday at Gloucester they made it two wins out of two … this time out they beat the North by 29 points to 16 |
| 22 | The main pressure to accelerate the introduction of democracy comes from the discredited parties of the old regime : the Uganda People 's Congress ( a largely Protestant organisation which was Milton Obote 's party ) and the Democratic Party ( dominated by Catholics ) . |
| 23 | Echinacea purpurea comes from the American prairies |
| 24 | Does my hon. Friend agree that some of the best beef exported from Britain comes from the less-favoured areas and hill land ? |
| 25 | The warning comes from the diosesan parsonages board which looks after church properties . |
| 26 | Further important subsurface information comes from the several boreholes put down in the search for coal by the Department of Commerce on the advice of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | The word origami comes from the Japanese ori ( folding ) and kami ( paper ) . |
| 28 | Most of our knowledge of K-type transition comes from the pioneering experiments by Klebanoff and his colleagues , hence the name . |
| 29 | This is because the energy for neuroses comes from the sexual instincts which are seeking private gratifications , rather than the combination of erotic and egoistic elements found in the social impulses . |
| 30 | Our word verse comes from the Latin vers , which means furrow . |