Example sentences of "come from a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Those who have been successful in their applications to the GEP have come from a wide range of backgrounds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Pluralist approaches , on the other hand , stress that the types of pressures on government come from a wider array of different types of interests . |
| 6 | The South Americans have come from a five-nation tournament in Hamburg , where they beat Spain 2-1 and lost to Australia 3-2 . |
| 7 | Those who have come from a joint family in India , Pakistan or Bangladesh to live alone with their husbands in Britain suffer most . |
| 8 | The most elaborate shells in the collections held in the British Museum ( Natural History ) have come from a sub-littoral population of Rhoscolyn ( Anglesey ) . |
| 9 | That 's the message to come from a new book on Highgrove co-written by the Prince and environmental journalist , Charles Clover . |
| 10 | The sound had seemed to come from a long way over the heath to the right . |
| 11 | The only serious threat appeared to come from a small group of exiles in Paris , chief amongst whom was Henry Beaumont , who had gathered together exiles from Lancaster s movement and some of the nobles who had lost lands in Scotland . |
| 12 | A Hampshire hotel hit on a clever country house compromise with gentle piano recordings that appeared to come from a live performer in the next room — creating a delightful backdrop to afternoon tea . |
| 13 | Here users tend to come from a wide variety of backgrounds , and press for an equally wide range of requirements . |
| 14 | Deflationary pressure in the budget was expected to come from a continuing reduction in the fiscal deficit , to 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1992-93 ( compared with 8.4 per cent in 1990-91 and 6.5 per cent in 1991-92. i.e. the year ending March 31 , 1992 ) . |
| 15 | Again , the composer spoke of the Romanian voice in her music which came from a Jungian kind of collective unconsciousness . |
| 16 | Eventually a firm offer came from a European producer for a low-budget spy film , The Defector , shot in Munich in March and April of 1966 . |
| 17 | Though Bowler came from a similar background to Ricky Stride , he was more responsive to what Minton had to teach him and their conversations opened for him new areas of interest , in art , books and theatre . |
| 18 | However , I am not hopeful that her example will force the institution to reassess its attitude to the critical account , for even the fears of someone like Stead , which came from a central location of police power at the Staff College at Bramshill , seem to have largely fallen on stony ground . |
| 19 | The two men , who both came from a small village in Lithuania , almost hero-worshipped the handsome Italian with his love of liquor and of women . |
| 20 | General taxation provided about 77 per cent of the total in 1990–1 ( Cm 1513 , 1991 ) ; about 9 per cent came from a small addition to the weekly national insurance contribution ; and the remaining element came from charges ( 6.5 per cent ) and other receipts like land sales ( 1.7 per cent ) ( Cm 1513 , 1991 ) . |
| 21 | His support came from a small group of household knights who were to be well rewarded for their work , but he was not indebted to any great noble for his position . |
| 22 | ‘ There is enormous support for the scheme in the town and when they considered the first application , the only resident input came from a small group of people who opposed it , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen . |
| 24 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 25 | Data of male mortality ( n =138 ) came from a capture-recapture study with marked individuals ( daily visits to the site , after 10 days no more males were recaptured ) . |
| 26 | One came from a great fire on the shore where the pirates sat singing and drinking ; the other came from the Hispaniola out at sea . |
| 27 | Soon Babushka fell into a deep sleep only to be woken by a beautiful golden light which came from a far corner of the stable . |
| 28 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 29 | Lunia Czechowska came from a prominent family of Polish intellectuals . |
| 30 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |