Example sentences of "come from the [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 Both animals , with many others , had come from the higher parts of the rivers .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes .
8 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 .
9 Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship .
10 Since 1950 my influences have come from the Flemish Primitives , Frances de la Tour and Stanley Spencer .
11 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 .
12 But the most cohesive programme to yet be devised has come from the United Nations Environmental Programme ( UNEP ) .
13 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 .
14 It is undeniable that a great deal of important and fundamental research has come from the several centres of excellence in the USA .
15 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 .
16 A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties .
17 The R&A 's next challenge is likely to come from the golf-equipment manufacturers .
18 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 .
19 Why , unicyle hockey of course : yes this is the latest sport to come from the playing fields , or grounds , of Oxford .
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 The skis and sledges came from the best shops in Norway , but Bjaaland was n't happy with them .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Angry whispers came from the other men .
28 Table 5.8 demonstrates that a greater proportion of users known to both prevalence studies came from the two townships with higher levels of social deprivation .
29 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 .
30 Kendall was never afraid to spend money , signing Adrian Heath for a then club record of £800,000 from Stoke , but many of his best buys came from the lower divisions : Neville Southall from Bury , Derek Mountfield from Tranmere and Bolton 's Peter Reid .
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