Example sentences of "came from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His long nose came from the latter and more specifically from a genetic type unit near the Dead Sea . |
| 2 | This reassurance came from the epic poems ( the pesme ) which celebrated the heroes of the struggle against the Turks after the tragedy of Kosovo . |
| 3 | There was a roar of assent and the gathering began to stir and kindle into easier feelings — neighbours muttered to each other and laughter came from the Grandtully part of the crowd . |
| 4 | The title came from the nineteenth-century paper produced by the Chartists that had combined satire with working-class reportage . |
| 5 | The majority of the prints came from the prestigious collection of the Bolognese conte Lodovico Aurelio Savioli , curator of the paintings , prints and drawings collection of the Elector Palatine Carl Theodor in the last quarter of the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | An answering sigh came from the fair-haired girl standing next to her . |
| 7 | They came from the right hon. Member for Brent , North ( Sir R. Boyson ) ; from the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ; from the hon. Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The inspiration for the Convention came from the wide principles declared in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 . |
| 10 | The advice on bending the rules came from the then Defence Minister , Alan Clark . |
| 11 | A third of these imports came from the region itself , but over 60 per cent came from the industrialised countries ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 12 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 13 | Most of the comments on links with parents came from the primary sector |
| 14 | The skis and sledges came from the best shops in Norway , but Bjaaland was n't happy with them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If the key role in opposing James 's pro-Catholic policies came from the Anglican establishment , and in particular from the clergy , how did they justify doing this , given their professed attachment to the principles of non-resistance and passive obedience ? |
| 17 | The pre-independence newspapers that campaigned for self-government knew what they were aiming for ; their journalists , contributors and backers came from the new , educated élite united by common aspirations and interests . |
| 18 | The doors stayed open but no murmur came from the other room . |
| 19 | Suddenly the stillness was broken by a distressful wail that came from the other side of the square . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The only sounds came from the other end of the room where the woman was splitting the artichokes and tossing them with a splash into a big plastic bowl . |
| 22 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 23 | Angry whispers came from the other men . |
| 24 | Even in the Lockerbie disaster , where a plane exploded in mid-air , and many bodies could only be pieced together in fragments , relatives came from the other side of the world searching for something , anything that gave a focus to their grief and over which they could weep . |
| 25 | She was still pondering on this mystery when a low whistle came from the other side of the ditch . |
| 26 | Dusky light came from the two small front windows between the toothed leaves of nettles . |
| 27 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 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 | All the errors quoted in this section came from the one hundred . |
| 30 | 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 . |