Example sentences of "came from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Sontag ( 1979 ) may have been guilty of exaggeration in her claim that Benjamin 's most important influence came from surrealism , it is certain that he was enthusiastic about surrealism both as a movement in the arts and as often explicit politics . |
| 2 | But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate . |
| 3 | I mean it does n't affect the area , I mean ours did do at branch , our students were erm , I mean they started work in the poultries , and they all had , you know , big cardies , it came from handling . |
| 4 | Thus over half the magnitude of the Bijvoet differences came from noise in the data . |
| 5 | In 1989 , 80% of the income of households with weekly incomes of below £45 came from state benefits , with 2% from wages and salaries . |
| 6 | Women are disproportionately represented among income support recipients for two main reasons : first , there is a high proportion of elderly and disabled women in the population ; and second , lone parenthood is increasing and the proportion of lone parents dependent upon state benefits has also increased ( by 1986 about 40 per cent of the income of lone parents came from state benefits ) . |
| 7 | The other Melrose touchdowns came from winger Andy Purves and flanker Bruce Laidlaw . |
| 8 | The crucial innings then came from King , who hammered 50 off 39 balls to help the score to 196 ; England needed 260 to win , with time not a problem . |
| 9 | The Welsh tries came from full-back , Duncan Hughes , after a move started by what seemed an unstoppable rolling maul , and three minutes before full-time , from their left wing , Mike Summerell , after a quickly-taken penalty . |
| 10 | The warning cry came from Petion , who got off a single shot at Richmann before the mercenary major swung the Winchester around and fired it with a roar . |
| 11 | Last year was abysmal , we conceeded so many goals because the defence could n't cope most notable occasion was Man City away where 2 of their 4 goals came from shite defending ie defenders unable to pass back to the goalie who would then pick it up . |
| 12 | By 1945 , 63038 of the Gold Coast population were in the armed forces and 30 500 had served in the Burma campaign where two Divisions ( the 81st and 82nd ) came from West Africa . |
| 13 | When my right hon. Friend visits the United Nations , will he raise the issue of the RAF aircrew who were shot down over the Gulf , some of whom came from west Norfolk ? |
| 14 | Peter Cook , Jonathan Miller , Alan Bennett , and Dudley Moore came from public and grammar schools , juvenile mandarins of the meritocracy , they provided a show lodged in the half-way house between the angries of 1956 and the arts labs and tepees of the later 1960s , and , unlike much of what was to follow , it was very English . |
| 15 | In part , the impetus for reform came from concern over the efficiency of the long-established regulatory regimes and , in particular , a belief that many self-regulatory systems may have evolved into restrictive practices dressed up to be in the public interest . |
| 16 | The rest came from end-user applications . |
| 17 | The experiment found that some 25 per cent of lead in the bodies of Turin residents came from petrol . |
| 18 | He says the garage is losing about nine thousand pounds a week in takings , most of which came from lorry drivers who are now using other routes . |
| 19 | Keeping up with that galloping pen of hers , Mrs Praga one day devised " a scheme based on deep orange-hued carnations " , the table-slip to be of deep sunset yellow satin edged with écru lace ( sunset yellow , she tells us elsewhere , was a Liberty colour — in fact most of her inspiration came from Liberty 's ) . |
| 20 | Further , since he is only one of a significant group of bishops who came from court in the early seventh century , if there was any general transfer of secular authority to bishops in this period , and the evidence is far from clear on this , the likelihood is that it was condoned by the king . |
| 21 | The enormous increase in the demand for lace was largely due to the fashion for lace curtains which came at the same time as a huge house-building programme , and buyers came from home and abroad to negotiate their deals in the Lace Market . |
| 22 | The gloomy prediction of cash curbs came from Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke and Trade Secretary Michael Heseltine . |
| 23 | The final obliteration came from development of the railway on the site . |
| 24 | It is tempting to suggest that the public conception came from memory and the private metaphors from their inner worlds of inner objects , but to draw such a fine distinction would be to go beyond the evidence I have . |
| 25 | Sparke enjoyed considerable financial success ( his will indicates that he bought a gentleman 's estate and his first wife was connected to the Warwickshire gentry ) and political influence , which came from publishing works no other printer would touch . |
| 26 | All but two came from Co . |
| 27 | Mia has now flown back to America with the one-year-old dog , which she has named Tip because it came from Co Tipperary . |
| 28 | As we have seen , this was a key point for Morgan because all his evidence about kinship came from kinship terms . |
| 29 | Funding came from North West Arts Board and Goethe Institut , Manchester . |
| 30 | The Times of June 8 reported that following the riots the government had granted Belgian nationality to 40,000 immigrants , most of whom came from north Africa , and had made it easier for those born in Belgium of foreign parents to gain citizenship . |