Example sentences of "come from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The remainder come from the following categories : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship . |
| 9 | Since 1950 my influences have come from the Flemish Primitives , Frances de la Tour and Stanley Spencer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But the most cohesive programme to yet be devised has come from the United Nations Environmental Programme ( UNEP ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties . |
| 15 | The R&A 's next challenge is likely to come from the golf-equipment manufacturers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Why , unicyle hockey of course : yes this is the latest sport to come from the playing fields , or grounds , of Oxford . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This reassurance came from the epic poems ( the pesme ) which celebrated the heroes of the struggle against the Turks after the tragedy of Kosovo . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The inspiration for the Convention came from the wide principles declared in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 . |
| 23 | A third of these imports came from the region itself , but over 60 per cent came from the industrialised countries ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Angry whispers came from the other men . |
| 27 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 28 | Much of the concern came from the black communities : in 1971 Bernard Coard , a black teacher , published an influential document entitled How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School , while Afro-Caribbean parents and local teachers in Redbridge , frustrated by the relative lack of research and support , conducted their own investigation and in 1978 published disturbing evidence on the school performance of black children . |
| 29 | ‘ A runner came from the front trenches , down the communicating trench . |
| 30 | When we got out of the car , we found the only sound came from the chirping crickets . |