Example sentences of "come from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 2 | The material with which a major museum has to deal , both within its own collections and on offer to it , will have come from a wide variety of sources . |
| 3 | Although much research , comment and controversy have focussed on the population of North African origin , immigrants in fact come from a wide variety of sources both within and outside Europe . |
| 4 | Those who have been successful in their applications to the GEP have come from a wide range of backgrounds . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 6 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 7 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 8 | Had the plea come from a budding starlet or perhaps an Italian supermodel , Jagger would have tripped over his lips in an effort to scrawl his name — and perhaps his phone number — in her book for posterity . |
| 9 | You do risk crackles and pops , but many will have come from a good home — and you can always get them washed . |
| 10 | Some scholars think that the infancy stories in Luke 's Gospel come from a separate source . |
| 11 | The South Americans have come from a five-nation tournament in Hamburg , where they beat Spain 2-1 and lost to Australia 3-2 . |
| 12 | Its name come from a Gaelic word Lagh which meant Law — Mountain of Lawgiving . |
| 13 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 14 | Those who have come from a joint family in India , Pakistan or Bangladesh to live alone with their husbands in Britain suffer most . |
| 15 | The most elaborate shells in the collections held in the British Museum ( Natural History ) have come from a sub-littoral population of Rhoscolyn ( Anglesey ) . |
| 16 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
| 17 | She claimed to have come from a different school but her story somehow did n't ring true . |
| 18 | There are some slight variations in it , and it 's come from a different U S mill and , for example , there are three items at the end which were required and you offered us six millimetres , they 're now six point three five millimetres , which is quarter inch , that 's fine , erm . |
| 19 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 20 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 21 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |
| 22 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 23 | The information had come from a reliable source and they had no reason to doubt it . |
| 24 | The tip had come from a reliable source . |
| 25 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 26 | A traveller who has come from a nearby town , where the Romans have already given out their orders ( low to equal status ) . |
| 27 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 28 | For example , the donation of some R25,000 worth of roofing material has come from a French company . |
| 29 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 30 | Only use floppy disks that have come from a reputable source , such as shrink-wrapped software . |