Example sentences of "have come from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 2 | The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age . |
| 3 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 4 | For example , the donation of some R25,000 worth of roofing material has come from a French company . |
| 5 | A traveller who has come from a nearby town , where the Romans have already given out their orders ( low to equal status ) . |
| 6 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 7 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
| 8 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 9 | You do risk crackles and pops , but many will have come from a good home — and you can always get them washed . |
| 10 | The material with which a major museum has to deal , both within its own collections and on offer to it , will have come from a wide variety of sources . |
| 11 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 12 | All the same , the feather in his pocket could hardly have come from an imaginary swan . |
| 13 | She claimed to have come from a different school but her story somehow did n't ring true . |
| 14 | Comparable units in the two ranges seem to have come from an oceanic trough that was torn apart and thrust in opposite directions . |
| 15 | My father was a missionary had come from a dusty little town in South Africa , I 've got many wonderful experiences in my life , I 've had experience of heart transplant . |
| 16 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 18 | The glass firm said all the suspect bottles had come from a new lightweight bottle-making process which had now been halted . |
| 19 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 20 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 21 | The information had come from a reliable source and they had no reason to doubt it . |
| 22 | The tip had come from a reliable source . |
| 23 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 24 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 25 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 26 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 27 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |
| 28 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 29 | Impressive though this result is , the transplanted nucleus had come from an early embryonic stage . |
| 30 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |