Example sentences of "come from [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 120 OR SO PLANT-BASED DRUGS PRESCRIBED FOR WORLD-WIDE USE COME FROM JUST 95 SPECIES — MANY KNOWN FOR CENTURIES |
| 2 | Champagnes made with a high proportion of Pinot Meunier sometimes have an earthy tone of fruit and when the grapes have come from less favourable sites , there can be a distinctly sweet aroma which reminds one of a confectioner 's shop . |
| 3 | Much of the expansion in manufacturing employment in the global system since the 1950s has come from relatively few industries , such as automobiles , electronics , textiles , household goods , and toys . |
| 4 | Since the new rule was rubber stamped last Monday , the blows raining down upon racing 's legislators in Portland Square , London , have come from fairly predictable sources . |
| 5 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
| 6 | She wore the New Look , a coat of beige gaberdine which fell in two swaying , graceful pleats from her waist at the back ( the swaying must have come from very high heels , but I did n't notice her shoes ) , a hat tipped forward from hair swept up . |
| 7 | Shotwell ( 1955 ) attempted to distinguish between bones from different sources by devising an index of completeness of preservation , by which species represented by most complete remains must have been transported shorter distances and therefore have come from communities close by , while species with less well preserved remains must have come from more distant communities . |
| 8 | The burghers of Lichfield are a cultured and discerning lot , and were clearly charmed by guest speakers Joanna Trollope and Mark Wallington , who could hardly have come from more different writing genres . |
| 9 | Erm it 's a difficult balance , change is very rarely popular and quite often it 's only ever talked about but sometimes it happens and even then it 's not popular but a balanced and open mind is required to approach change but perhaps more important , and this is n't always mentioned , suggestions about change tend to come from rather specific areas and there are rather specific interest groups which may start the process of change |
| 10 | So land vertebrates in particular tend to come from relatively few sites , which become exhaustively collected compared with most invertebrate localities . |
| 11 | But we will still need 50 per cent of energy to come from more concentrated power sources . |
| 12 | And although they tended to come from less advantaged backgrounds , only children performed as well as , or even slightly better than , fellow pupils from two-child families . |
| 13 | ‘ I can hardly believe so much came from just two schools — I hate to think what is lying in basements around the country , ’ Alistair said . |
| 14 | In a report delivered to Congress and the White House , the Fund says the contamination came from about 4,300 rounds of armour-piercing shells fired from tanks and aircraft . |
| 15 | Distorted faces peered from walls , agonised limbs writhed from the pavements , and pillars of stone groaned with voices that came from once human lips . |
| 16 | His friend vows steadfastness in friendship , but repeats his warning : his illness came from too much study , and he should n't do it again . |
| 17 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 18 | However , not quite normal , since the mouse will have four parents if the original two embryos came from quite different mothers and fathers . |
| 19 | The 18-year-old 's third Test century came from only 135 balls , and contained 14 fours : he hit two more before giving a catch to second slip , where Moody had earlier dropped Kapil Dev on 0 . |
| 20 | His fifty came from only 85 balls with a back-cut following a flowery on-driven four off Mallender . |
| 21 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 22 | Heiresses dominate the magazine 's list of the 250 wealthiest women in Britain — there are 97 worth a total of £3.6 billion with the nine richest coming from just three families . |
| 23 | Unlike quasars and active galactic nuclei , which seem to require black holes to explain the enormous energies coming from very compact regions , the energy generated by Sgr A is rather feeble . |
| 24 | Physical attacks on leading government figures might at least disorganize the regime enough to force it to accede to the appeals for political reform which were once again coming from more moderate sections of public opinion . |
| 25 | He knows that most of that money will come from just three member states , Britain , France and Germany . |
| 26 | In short , some children will come from relatively stable homes for temporary care , others have had very damaging and painful experiences and come from permanently broken homes and are likely to require long-term care . |
| 27 | Autobiographers are clearly special people — even though many may come from quite typical families . |
| 28 | In other words , this model excludes from consideration the influences on policy-making which come from outside this officer–councillor elite ( Wilson , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | They come from similarly privileged backgrounds ( Subramaniam , 1967 ; Aberbach et al . , |
| 30 | Three quarters of developing countries ' earnings come from just 33 commodities , and an individual country is likely to be dependent on just two or three of these.4 |