Example sentences of "come from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell .
2 The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " .
3 Similar support for a modified accelerator theory as a determinant of investment has come from the recent studies of Catinat ( 1991 ) and Ford and Poret ( 1990 ) .
4 The remainder come from the following categories :
5 Both animals , with many others , had come from the higher parts of the rivers .
6 Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping .
7 We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers .
8 It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes .
9 They claimed the move had been simply to bring Scotland into line with England and Wales and that the initiative had come from the big bookmakers , who would be the main beneficiaries .
10 Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship .
11 Since 1950 my influences have come from the Flemish Primitives , Frances de la Tour and Stanley Spencer .
12 They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives .
13 But the most cohesive programme to yet be devised has come from the United Nations Environmental Programme ( UNEP ) .
14 The main differences between the account of the journalist and the sociologist come from the different orientations that each brings to the subject of study .
15 It is undeniable that a great deal of important and fundamental research has come from the several centres of excellence in the USA .
16 If some clarity of purpose and coherence of action is to take the place of this drift , the ideas and energy ought to come from the political parties because , in theory , they are supposed to provide the driving force in political development .
17 A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties .
18 The R&A 's next challenge is likely to come from the golf-equipment manufacturers .
19 The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep .
20 Why , unicyle hockey of course : yes this is the latest sport to come from the playing fields , or grounds , of Oxford .
21 A dissenting voice came from a Financial Times reporter who had recently visited the northern town of Kompong Thom , briefly captured by the Khmers Rouges in mid-June [ see p. 37533 ] .
22 There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing .
23 There have been numerous clashes between land-owners and new-age travllers in the county — last October two farmers lost 10 sheep in several attacks by dogs which they say came from a nearby travellers encampment .
24 This reassurance came from the epic poems ( the pesme ) which celebrated the heroes of the struggle against the Turks after the tragedy of Kosovo .
25 It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her .
26 The inspiration for the Convention came from the wide principles declared in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 .
27 A third of these imports came from the region itself , but over 60 per cent came from the industrialised countries ( López Cordovez 1982 ) .
28 The skis and sledges came from the best shops in Norway , but Bjaaland was n't happy with them .
29 Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot .
30 Yet never did we instigate a fracas ; provocation always came from the other fellows , for various reasons ; maybe they did n't like Jews , or as often happened , they simply threw a challenge in order to test our ability to rule the roost .
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