Example sentences of "come from an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any radical critic of society has always come from an unattached group of artists and intellectuals . |
| 2 | Comparable units in the two ranges seem to have come from an oceanic trough that was torn apart and thrust in opposite directions . |
| 3 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 4 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 5 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 6 | All the same , the feather in his pocket could hardly have come from an imaginary swan . |
| 7 | One of the more remarkable features of the British energy scene has been the speed with which forecasts of demand have fallen , and the CEGB 's new forecasts are the lowest yet to come from an official source . |
| 8 | The occasional remark passing seemed to come from an infinite distance , and be answered after a prolonged interval . |
| 9 | It was to come from an unexpected quarter : the environmentalists . |
| 10 | OSF/1 on MIPS customers are mostly policy-led companies who want the operating system to come from an independent source , although there are reasons for changing , according to Stone , including loadable drivers for accommodating new graphics options and shared libraries that reduce the size of the applications . |
| 11 | Its arguments may raise a smile now , but it came from an experienced pastor to an intelligent and dedicated missionary , and was clearly directed to some of the major preoccupations of Germanic and other pagans . |
| 12 | Mihály Zichy ( 1827–1906 ) came from an ancient family of Hungarian counts . |
| 13 | He came from an ancient Corvedale family , branches of which were in the forefront of Shropshire life during the seventeenth century — Francis 's nephew was a Member for Wenlock in Charles I 's parliament . |
| 14 | She came from an ordinary background … her father was a railway clerk . |
| 15 | Donald came from an industrial town about fifty miles down the coast . |
| 16 | Joyce Cary , one of my favourite writers , came from an Anglo-Irish background . |
| 17 | The victor , John F. Kennedy , came from an Irish-Catholic family . |
| 18 | The two men were born in the same region , the Transkei , but whereas Mr Mandela was a distinguished personage of royal blood , Mr Sisulu came from an impoverished peasant family and engaged in politics as a consequence of his exposure to the daily indignities of life for blacks through his work in a dairy , a bakery , in mines and factories . |
| 19 | The prosecution claims the money came from an armed robbery by four masked men at a sub post office in Berkshire . |
| 20 | Instead of being ‘ designed ’ , the mishmash of typefaces , type sizes , screaming headlines , jumbled-up articles and unrelated snippets came from an organic process . |
| 21 | But aid came from an unlikely quarter . |
| 22 | The breakthrough came from an unlikely source : an Assistant Commissioner of Police at Scotland Yard , Alker Tripp . |
| 23 | Another view of the need to rebuild British cities came from an old school : the garden city movement . |
| 24 | Original air intakes and filters came from an old lorry . |
| 25 | Barratt came from an old mining family and indeed , had been captain at Wheal Friendship , on Dartmoor , where his father , for years , had been manager . |
| 26 | The two 10-tonne rams came from an old Volvo dump-truck and are connected to a cross-shaft at the top . |
| 27 | The instructions with this recipe which came from an old horseman 's notebook were : Set this mixture by the wind ; that is , the horseman was advised to stand in the wind so that as soon as the colt or horse scented him he would advance towards him . |
| 28 | They shared a common concern to explain the events that had changed the lives of themselves and their families , and came from an intellectual tradition that stressed causes and the analysis of social events at the macro level . |
| 29 | The metopes presumably came from an earlier monument of the same city , not apparently a treasury but an open colonnade , perhaps a baldacchino to shelter but not conceal some large offering . |
| 30 | An even grimmer tale came from an Australian team which , on leaving the country after hazardous months of filming the interior , helplessly watched officials open every can of their exposed film to establish that they were not smuggling . |