Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [vb -s] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons for its speed comes from that . |
| 2 | Information about its speed comes from its antennae which vibrate as the air flows over them . |
| 3 | But schools , which will have to pay for their training needs from delegated budgets , will have to prioritise those needs and devise means of ensuring that they are properly met . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of my money comes from a trust fund . ’ |
| 5 | So if the president of my company calls from Allentown and says Ricky I 'd like to see you in my office on the thirtieth , I do n't say I 'm sorry Steve , it 's catch up day , I say what time would be convenient for you Sir , because you know , otherwise I , I 'd be looking for a job . |
| 6 | I know my limitations and most of my security comes from hard -learned technical expertise . |
| 7 | Apple of my eye derives from the Bible and means ‘ child of the eye ’ , child being the eyeball and especially the pupil which is the organ of vision . |
| 8 | As up to 4() per cent of their income comes from corporate profits they have a vested interest in working for the common benefit . |
| 9 | But they do have plenty of guns , and it can be presumed that some of their provision comes from hunting . |
| 10 | I have suggested elsewhere that their presentation of their evidence benefits from closer examination . |
| 11 | Seventy five percent of their electricity comes from nuclear power in France . |
| 12 | Much of their charm comes from the careful way that the characters were conceived . |
| 13 | And there was plump , placid , erotically drained Stuart beside me , looking so fucking … blithe , pretending it was nice to be met at the airport , and probably thinking about how he was going to claim back some Danegeld on the unused half of their return billets from Gatwick to Victoria . |
| 14 | Kahnweiler linked the names of Picasso and Braque together seriously in Der Weg zum Kubismus , written in 1915 though not published until 1920 , but general recognition of their collaboration dates from the Kahnweiler and Uhde sales of the early 1920s when their pre-war Cubism could be seen together in large quantities for the first time . |
| 15 | For most companies , political opinion polling is a way to get their name known , but the bread and butter of their business comes from market research . |
| 16 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 17 | Much of its money comes from church fund-raising groups , although the society denies there are direct church contributions . |
| 18 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 19 | ( Some suggest that part of its secretiveness arises from a fear of becoming involved in the litigation instituted by injured patients . ) |
| 20 | In the UK , much of its work comes from motorway and road contracts and water and sewerage engineering . |
| 21 | About 10% to 15% of its business stems from PC packages in health and personal fitness . |
| 22 | Meanwhile 88Open , which boasts that some 80% of its business comes from Europe , has set up an office in the UK , under the charge of Steve Heath , previously from Motorola 's semiconductor operation . |
| 23 | The Highlands and Islands , with the largest fuel use , will not receive any recognition of the fact that 40 per cent of its power comes from clean hydro-electric schemes . |
| 24 | Based on natural salt , 75% of its volume comes from natural Red Sea salt , and a further 13% of its content is derived from the Dead Sea , leading to its claim to be 85% natural and less likely to cause salt rash . |
| 25 | Renton 's suggestion of a further review of its role stems from the feeling in his department that the present system is an administrative duplication , that it does not allow the Minister to determine the policy framework , and that whenever a major funding issue arises the government has in any case to be directly involved at present . |
| 26 | The women admittedly conform to standard dancerly mould , and it is an awkwardness in the piece that little of its clowning comes from them . |
| 27 | While EDS/GFI boasts expertise in six different hardware environments — IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , Unisys Corp and Tandem Computers Inc , 58% of its revenue comes from contracts involving IBM systems . |
| 28 | Its remit extends to the National Health Service and to many other public bodies more than half of whose income comes from public funds . |
| 29 | I imagine most of his income comes from farming . |
| 30 | The tone of his correspondence varies from self-mockery to flights of fancy , and the handwriting changes almost as much : angular or rounded , neat or sprawling . |