Example sentences of "come from a small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only serious threat appeared to come from a small group of exiles in Paris , chief amongst whom was Henry Beaumont , who had gathered together exiles from Lancaster s movement and some of the nobles who had lost lands in Scotland . |
| 2 | The two men , who both came from a small village in Lithuania , almost hero-worshipped the handsome Italian with his love of liquor and of women . |
| 3 | General taxation provided about 77 per cent of the total in 1990–1 ( Cm 1513 , 1991 ) ; about 9 per cent came from a small addition to the weekly national insurance contribution ; and the remaining element came from charges ( 6.5 per cent ) and other receipts like land sales ( 1.7 per cent ) ( Cm 1513 , 1991 ) . |
| 4 | The eighth collection came from a small cave which is part of the Wookey Hole cave complex in Somerset . |
| 5 | His support came from a small group of household knights who were to be well rewarded for their work , but he was not indebted to any great noble for his position . |
| 6 | ‘ There is enormous support for the scheme in the town and when they considered the first application , the only resident input came from a small group of people who opposed it , ’ he said . |
| 7 | He came from a small force , Plymouth , and did n't realize that big forces were totally different . |
| 8 | It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen . |
| 9 | Clasper was becoming more isolated , with his dwindling support coming from a small core of left-wingers who considered the fight to be a question of principle , namely union solidarity against management . |
| 10 | Christina Muir : ‘ Coming from a small boarding school evacuated and decimated by the war it was paradise to be with girls with intellectual interests . |
| 11 | An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week . |
| 12 | So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible . |
| 13 | In sum , therefore , an attendance rate of 90% does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent ; the missing 10% could come from a small number of pupils with lengthy absences or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences . |
| 14 | ‘ I come from a small village in the far north of Scotland . ’ |
| 15 | The barracking comes from a small minority and it 's hard to take . |
| 16 | Slight knowledge of other inhabitants comes from a small collection of material . |