Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] come from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
| 2 | The missing two-thirds of its energy must have come from elastic tension stored in its huge tendons , tail and lower back . |
| 3 | A few fishing boats sat in the lagoon , some outrigger canoes were drawn up on the sand and one small pleasure yacht , which must have come from another island , was anchored to a buoy . |
| 4 | In each case , the new school now contained fry of two different sizes , and so it was clear that some must have come from another family . |
| 5 | Silver must have come from silver-bearing lead and copper ores but there is no evidence of mining lead itself until the late Saxon period . |
| 6 | Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians . |
| 7 | Their attitudes were so different , they could have come from separate planets . |
| 8 | It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , much of the smooth plains material could have come from large impacts on the so far unseen hemisphere . |
| 10 | Come to think of it , the Krooms may have come from outer space , though outer space was not then as popular as it later became for launching expeditions against Earthmen . |
| 11 | This paper assumes that students entering a course for a single-subject degree will have come from many backgrounds . |
| 12 | About two-thirds of this will have come from nuclear power , the rest from research and medical uses . |