Example sentences of "came from the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The warning came from the all party , defence select committee , whose Conservative chairman said the country 's defence capability had already been pared to the bone .
2 The brilliant specimen is one of the biggest ever boated off South Wales and came from the same mark which yielded Charlie a 33 lb 8 oz cod three years ago .
3 And do you think they all came from the same kind of background as yourself or were they more working people ?
4 The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species .
5 As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins .
6 If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents .
7 A third view of what he wanted came from the same head telling himself that he wanted pupils in his school to have a vision of learning as an embodiment of self-improvement .
8 They came from the same country .
9 EWM 's auditors — who came from the same firm as the rider 's accountant — suggested the link-up .
10 Most of the farm weights and unofficial weights are of the crude variety ( compared to the loom weights ) but when you add their existence to the three bronze coin weights that also came from the same field something of a picture starts to build up .
11 They all came from the same supplier .
12 However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst .
13 An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine .
14 and myself or as he was better known , came through B Seventeen Transition School at in Florida together and where the crews were formed so that the names in the Army of course are worked alphabetically , so everybody on my crew is trained with everybody on crew and their last name is just ahead erm in the alphabetic in the class that they were in , so that my navigator came from the same school , the same navigation class as .
15 Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’
16 He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it .
17 These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop .
18 17 passives were produced when actor and acted-upon came from the same class .
19 You see , it came from the same thing .
20 The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family .
21 Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law .
22 ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’
23 ‘ That means you came from the same egg .
24 Although they spoke German and came from the same backgrounds as their charges , they were often young and inexperienced and unprepared for the demands of the work .
25 I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse .
26 Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother .
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