Example sentences of "comes [adv] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where the source of light comes mostly from one side , as when plants are growing under a hedge , stems often bend and stretch in that direction . |
| 2 | The drive behind the campaign for so-called ‘ fairer voting ’ comes predominantly from leftish groups who believe there is an anti-Thatcher majority in the country which the electoral system enables her to flout on the strength of a 42 per cent minority . |
| 3 | He 's got his five fielders there , four on the leg side at the moment , so saved , er long leg as well , bowls this one and that again he thrust forward that front pad and DaSilva , and Stewart comes in from mid wicket to field it . |
| 4 | On average a fifth of the sulphur in London and 45 per cent of that in Lincoln and York comes in from rural power stations . |
| 5 | A wipe , by the way , is like on of those weird effects the directors of such programs as Top of the Pops are so keen on — where the picture changes via a tumbling square or comes in from one side to replace the picture you have onscreen already . |
| 6 | Arne comes in from next door first thing and last thing and fills the hob for me , and I 'm grateful for the extra comfort . ’ |
| 7 | The later stages , at still higher Rayleigh number , have not yet yielded to theoretical analysis and our knowledge of them comes entirely from experimental observation . |
| 8 | Now the threat to well-paid secure jobs in the industrialized countries comes less from cheap workers in the Third World than from ill-paid casual workers at home . |
| 9 | The support for a genuine ‘ new order ’ now comes largely from Non-Governmental Organisations ( NGOs ) . |
| 10 | It is reasonably accurate to say that good teaching comes largely from thorough planning , yet all too often far too little planning time is made available . |
| 11 | What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes not from southern China but from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand . |
| 12 | The power of the kick comes not from any knee snap , but from the line of tension which runs from the lower back the whole length of the right leg . |
| 13 | There are many interesting facets of this complex diagnostic process and three are worthy of re-emphasis : firstly most of his information comes not from positive signals , stimuli or cues but from their absence , secondly he is relying on a hybrid model — a mixture of rules , mental pictures and symbolism , thirdly it all happens without very much conscious guidance — one mental or physical event leads to another and each event in the chain plays its part before handing over to the next one . |
| 14 | Now the first story that I 've been asked to tell specially comes not from this country we 'll just let our lads here get dressed because you , you knew that the story was gon na come from a very hot country did you ? |
| 15 | It comes broadly from four sources : direct giving by households and enterprises , indirect giving by tax payers , and charitable bodies ' own income from property trusts or investments . |
| 16 | Speed comes partly from good footwork anyway . |
| 17 | It is suggested that the answer to ties comes straight from long-term memory . |
| 18 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 19 | Revenue from excise duties on home-produced goods and services and imports comes mainly from three sources : tobacco , alcoholic drinks and hydrocarbon oil ( predominantly petrol and diesel oil ) . |
| 20 | But they admit the interest is still largely experimental and that demand comes mainly from foreign tourists willing to try English fare . |
| 21 | Coloured , textured as well as plain , the paper comes primarily from British sources , quite a lot is Scottish and smaller amounts are imported from Germany and America . |
| 22 | Our knowledge about this comes primarily from experimental investigations . |