Example sentences of "came from [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Again the try came from a concerted attack involving forwards and backs , Guscott and Brendan Mullin barely managing to squeeze the last two passes away .
2 Again , the composer spoke of the Romanian voice in her music which came from a Jungian kind of collective unconsciousness .
3 I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’
4 Her mother came from a high-born Portuguese family , so Sara had learnt that language from the cradle ; and the devoted services of the family chaplain had provided her with considerable ability in French and Latin as well .
5 Eventually a firm offer came from a European producer for a low-budget spy film , The Defector , shot in Munich in March and April of 1966 .
6 He came from a long-lived line and was himself in rude health .
7 FROM time immemorial drinking water came from a dirty little hole in the ground .
8 Your mother , he gave me to understand , came from a respectable if impecunious family .
9 He came from a respectable family .
10 At Hamilton Terrace Minton may have been relieved , after the turmoil of Bedford Gardens , to find himself sharing with someone who came from a similar background .
11 Though Bowler came from a similar background to Ricky Stride , he was more responsive to what Minton had to teach him and their conversations opened for him new areas of interest , in art , books and theatre .
12 However , I am not hopeful that her example will force the institution to reassess its attitude to the critical account , for even the fears of someone like Stead , which came from a central location of police power at the Staff College at Bramshill , seem to have largely fallen on stony ground .
13 The light supplementing that from the small portholes came from a central paraffin lantern .
14 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 .
15 Lipchitz was a kindly man , who came from a small , close-knit Jewish village community in Russia .
16 He came from a small force , Plymouth , and did n't realize that big forces were totally different .
17 The eighth collection came from a small cave which is part of the Wookey Hole cave complex in Somerset .
18 It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen .
19 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 .
20 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 ) .
21 ‘ 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 .
22 Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof .
23 John Viney at Heidrick and Struggles came from a general consultancy and two other executive search firms before coming to Heidrick and Struggles .
24 He , too , came from a Roman family and perhaps in some way had been the patron of the young cardinal deacon of SS .
25 Much of the improvement in January came from a sharp and largely unexplained fall in spending by government departments .
26 His eagles came from a 15-yard bunker shot at the eighth and a putt of similar distance at the eleventh .
27 Data of male mortality ( n =138 ) came from a capture-recapture study with marked individuals ( daily visits to the site , after 10 days no more males were recaptured ) .
28 This may in part have been a political move , for if he was the son of Ealdorman Æthelmær of Wessex , as is usually assumed , he came from a major West Saxon family , and had a brother , Æthelweard , executed by Cnut in 1017 and a brother-in-law ( another Æthelweard ) banished in 1020 .
29 The rifles came from a disbanded communist paramilitary unit .
30 The writer 's research elicited similar comments of which the most eloquent came from a chief education officer :
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