Example sentences of "they come from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stereo assault on them came from two men in late middle age , bizarrely costumed in matching Victorian evening dress . |
| 2 | You have to remember that some of them came from remote parts of Scotland , and the stores catered for them . |
| 3 | Easel Corp , Burlington , Massachusetts software engineering tools developer has filed to offer 645,266 shares , all of them coming from existing holders , who acquired the shares in connection with Easel 's acquisition of Enfin Software Corp . |
| 4 | They came from various parts of Europe , many with poignant backgrounds and experiences of hardship and misery . |
| 5 | and erm Wickham Market had erm Machine Centre erm , that was used during the war for erm certain courses er particularly for erm tractor drivers , they used to er have a week 's course , they had to apply to the Education Committee and er we got these applications in and erm they spent a week at Wickham Market , then in they used to stay in lodgings if they came from great distances and erm they would learn about the maintenance of erm of tractors and er , I suppose it 's quite a good thing really because er , it was difficult to get any repairs done in those days |
| 6 | THEY came from four continents — a cross-section of customers covering the whole textile chain , from yarn spinners and fabric producers to dyers , finishers and garment manufacturers . |
| 7 | Actually , they came from similar traditions . |
| 8 | They came from all parts of the kingdom and abroad . |
| 9 | Then the infant school the first class of the infants we had in a hut on Netteswell Road and then we went , they came from that hut there to the servant 's quarters of Mark Hall . |
| 10 | They came from complete strangers , from Quaker groups , and from caring people who wanted to help in a small way . |
| 11 | Before the war , they came from many lands to escape from the Nazis — Czechs , Poles , Hungarians , Yugoslavs , even some Germans who were against Hitler . |
| 12 | They came from 26 countries , including black African states like Kenya and Nigeria . |
| 13 | Where companies provided data on more than one project they came from separate divisions within the firm , thus representing 65 separate R&D organizations with their own management . |
| 14 | They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums . |
| 15 | In addition a doctor mentioned the advantage of his privileged background and several people indicated that they came from medical families . |
| 16 | ‘ They came from another lineage . |
| 17 | Even though they come from low-wage jobs , unemployed people are usually financially hard-hit by job loss . |
| 18 | They come from 46 countries , half industrialised and half in the developing world — 33% are from Bangladesh , India , Nepal , Pakistan and Sri Lanka , many drawn from their national electoral commissions . |
| 19 | The two pairs were placed in a 12″x8″ tank for quarantining ( I quarantine all fish even when they come from fellow fishkeepers as opposed to shops ) . |
| 20 | It is difficult to dismiss such insights when they come from 81-year-old Drucker , credited with having invented the concept of ‘ management ’ in The End of Economic Man in 1939 . |
| 21 | They come from many sources , but the Harvard team suspects that the particles from byproducts of fossil fuel burning are the most dangerous . |
| 22 | They come from many backgrounds , some from comfortable homes , and have found their various routes to inner and outer darkness . |
| 23 | Rewards are often only valued if they come from other people , but in fact they can be much nicer and more appropriate if they come from you . |
| 24 | Is it because well the whe whe when they the good they come from internal store |
| 25 | Confidence is the result of good shots and they come from good technique . |
| 26 | And they come from all corners of the world . |
| 27 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 28 | they come from all types of er social backgrounds |
| 29 | They come from all parts of the country , although it 's true that a function organised by one particular branch will tend to attract mainly members from that area . |
| 30 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |