Example sentences of "comes [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where the source of light comes mostly from one side , as when plants are growing under a hedge , stems often bend and stretch in that direction . |
| 2 | The remainder comes mostly from the countries around the Mediterranean , but what the original almond growers lack in quantity they apparently make up for in quality . |
| 3 | In common with all educational psychologists Gagne is also restricted by reliance on evidence which comes mostly from laboratory experiments , usually on lower animals , with all the limitations and artefacts which this implies . |
| 4 | The language young children hear comes mostly from people who are closely involved with them . |
| 5 | Our knowledge about its brief existence is sketchy and comes mostly from one internal , and therefore highly favourable source , the magazine the Rose , Shamrock and Thistle , and one external and extremely hostile source , the union journal , the Scottish Typographical Circular . |
| 6 | The drive behind the campaign for so-called ‘ fairer voting ’ comes predominantly from leftish groups who believe there is an anti-Thatcher majority in the country which the electoral system enables her to flout on the strength of a 42 per cent minority . |
| 7 | Perhaps Mr Henderson , the United States ambassador at Teheran will convey this assurance to the Shah and say that it comes personally from me . " |
| 8 | Esau , the hunter , comes in from the field ‘ dying of hunger ’ , to find his brother boiling some lentil soup . |
| 9 | Arne comes in from next door first thing and last thing and fills the hob for me , and I 'm grateful for the extra comfort . ’ |
| 10 | On average a fifth of the sulphur in London and 45 per cent of that in Lincoln and York comes in from rural power stations . |
| 11 | The aquifer therefore becomes saturated to a level where the water flowing out balances the recharge that comes in from rainwater . |
| 12 | This float enables the assistant to give customers change early in the day , before more cash comes in from sales . |
| 13 | ICE CLIMBING COMES IN FROM THE COLD |
| 14 | But there 's many a missus as needs to be home when her old man comes in from work on a Thursday , if she 's to get her proper share of his pay-packet . |
| 15 | He was quite prepared to hail this as a ‘ great film ’ , for if critics were prepared to lavish that term ‘ on any half-chewed jumble of stills that comes in from abroad , then I am in favour of loosening up with it on the home front ’ . |
| 16 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 17 | Sculpture comes in from the far reaches of the Pavillon de Flore at the Louvre |
| 18 | The light comes in from the sun , heat . |
| 19 | He comes in from the stairwell and closes the double doors . |
| 20 | Around the mid century the new complex fashion comes in from East Greece , but later than the first of these is the last of the old , the exquisite ‘ Peplos kore ’ ( 679 , fig. 39 ) . |
| 21 | He comes in from work and sits in his armchair all evening , hardly talking to me , although he 's great with our two kids and everybody else . |
| 22 | Er so unfortunately , fifty percent of material comes in from the States . |
| 23 | Even here , I expect his mother comes in from time to time and has a good old poke round . ’ |
| 24 | A wipe , by the way , is like on of those weird effects the directors of such programs as Top of the Pops are so keen on — where the picture changes via a tumbling square or comes in from one side to replace the picture you have onscreen already . |
| 25 | Well when it comes in from the cow it 's at blood heat , and e you put it through your strainer and then you drain it and er you leave it be and it coagulates , goes consistency of yoghurt , slightly thicker than yoghurt , and after that stood a certain time you apply heat then you warm it up and you stir it , you break up the curd , and the whey gradually rises to the top and your curds settles to the bottom . |
| 26 | If we do n't raise our targets , we shall stumble but I 'm absolutely confident from all the news that comes in from the field , that we shall raise our targets . |
| 27 | And the star of the show … the Russian Bear comes in from the cold . |
| 28 | Another faithful sign that winter is truly upon us , is when wildlife comes in from the cold . |
| 29 | He has to have a crunchy chew when he comes in from his walk . |
| 30 | because if he comes in from school he knows he 's got half an hours work |