Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] have [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 Only one in 500 engineers in the UK is a woman and progress is much slower than in the US where the percentage has grown from 0–2 in the 1960s , when the Civil Rights movement stirred , to 10 per cent and is growing apace .
2 If you pour water into this region you get a low tide where the water 's come from .
3 Shaw said it had no idea where the plaster had come from .
4 But where the uproar has come from is from people who have thought that they had got binding court agreements .
5 First , where the item has resulted from a recent arm 's length transaction , the item can be measured at the transaction price ( ie at ‘ historical cost ’ ) .
6 Bridget looked at her grand-daughter wondering what she meant , or even where the phrase had come from .
7 And they knew then where the blood had come from .
8 Her husband left her for a job in the Arabian Gulf one year ago , and apart from regular maintenance , neither she nor the children have heard from him since .
9 I was crouched in the hay in the stable that the horses have gone from and she did n't know I was watching her .
10 Except for birds seen during severe winter weather , which have often associated with influxes of other geese , records of this species are open to the suspicion that the birds have escaped from captivity .
11 His predecessor , Mr Michael Noar , yesterday said that the emphasis had moved from ‘ shop-floor subversion ’ to education , the Civil Service and the media — ‘ the commanding heights of philosophical power rather than industrial power ’ .
12 Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source .
13 Vlok said that the money had come from a fund established to combat international sanctions .
14 After a mile or so on the highway Hugh 's pace slackened as though he were tiring , and Marian noticed that the colour had gone from his face .
15 Later that day , the news began to spread that the Headmistress had recovered from her fainting-fit and had then marched out of the school building tight-lipped and white in the face .
16 Chairman Roger Bryan said that the Museum had learnt from the sad example of others that the softly , softly approach was best .
17 As they climbed from the back of the ambulance Rachel was met by the foreman of that particular section , who informed her that the man had fallen from the top of the jig to the second section .
18 He did not look at her as he said it , but there was a sudden unmistakably sharp edge to his voice that warned Ronni that the smile had gone from his face .
19 He points out that the courts have departed from the old literal approach of statutory construction and now adopt a purposive approach , seeking to discover the Parliamentary intention lying behind the words used and construing the legislation so as to give effect to , rather than thwart , the intentions of Parliament .
20 She said that the complaints had come from people on the same estate who were ‘ really quite close ’ to the former rectory .
21 It is thought that the potters had migrated from Malaga in response to the increasing pressure of the sea blockade of southern Spain by Christian ships .
22 A trade union movement anxious to extend rather than limit its influence would seek to regain those functions that the state has stripped from it .
23 No one can point to a particular warhead that the US has made from British plutonium .
24 UNESCO is the third such agency that the US has withdrawn from in less than a decade .
25 They have laid so many bets that the odds have tumbled from 2000 to one pre season to 12 to one .
26 It , it came or it or it would be one of the depressions that the town has suffered from many times during the last fifty or sixty years .
27 Some scientists think that the infection has spread from dogs carrying canine distemper virus .
28 Ministry of Agriculture inspectors fear that the disease has spread from the Continent , and are carrying out detailed checks around Wood Farm , near Aylsham .
29 I had the impression — fleeting , I grant you — that the photo had come from one of the pockets .
30 The dusty streets , now that the traders had withdrawn from them , seemed to enjoy a silent life of their own .
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