Example sentences of "have [adv] come [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The realization that these three systems can interact , and the identification of the mechanisms involved , has only come within the past few years . |
| 2 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 3 | The answer seems to lie in facing up to the fact that one particular cycle or era has finally come to a close and therefore both personally and professionally it would be wiser to channel your energies into something new . |
| 4 | The bouncy Miss Routledge , whose run in Bennett 's Talking Heads has just come to a close , explained : ‘ Alan just selects someone , writes the piece and posts it through the letterbox . |
| 5 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 6 | Any radical critic of society has always come from an unattached group of artists and intellectuals . |
| 7 | The most striking support for Saddam Hussein has probably come from the Palestinian population of the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 8 | Substantial cash help has also come from the National Heritage Memorial Fund ( £40,000 ) , the Countryside Commission for Scotland ( £40,000 ) , the Christopher Brasher Trust ( £30,000 ) and many others . |
| 9 | I think the time has now come for the National Heritage Memorial Fund to be split and a separate body established for Scotland . |
| 10 | The matter has now come to the High Court for an Order that this is the position and the High Court has ruled that companies and directors are entitled to set off deposits they held at BCCI against company overdrafts ( see Financial Times , 28/29 November 1992 ) . |
| 11 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 12 | The career that looked so promising in 1974 has evidently come to a premature end . |
| 13 | Fifth-placed man Liam O'Brien from East Cork AC has run every one of the 15 Ballycotton races and has never come outside the top five . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've obviously come from a happy , loving family , ’ said Wendy . |
| 15 | I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne . |
| 16 | Should anyone be foolish enough to don space armour and climb through the airlock , nothing whatever would be strictly visible — save for what had already come from the ordinary universe . |
| 17 | I 've just come from the Foreign Office , and you 're immediately on a new assignment . |
| 18 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 19 | This from Garry who had just come in the front door . |
| 20 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 21 | Objections to the application for planning permission had also come from the Western Regional Fisheries Board and Westport Tourism as well as several individuals . |
| 22 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 23 | Her life had simply come to a full stop . |
| 24 | I just wonder when Mr asks for other figures from the independent sector what would have happened if the figures that you 've got before you today had actually come from the private sector . |
| 25 | ‘ If you 're looking for trouble you 've definitely come to the right place , ’ said actor Christian Slater , host of the three-hour awards show telecast on the cable network from Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 26 | For Rosebery , for Milner , even for Lloyd George , there had been temptation in coalition ever since the Boer War , but such dreams had never come into the political daylight . |
| 27 | He said he had never come across a clearer , more perfect case , with so many vital details so well remembered . |
| 28 | Well sir , I 've recently come across an American sex survey in which a large number of US ladies were asked the question : ‘ How long do you usually like love play to last ? ’ |
| 29 | Walking into a club these days , it 's easy to get the feeling that you 've accidentally come across the local Hell 's Angels chapter double booked with a Skin 2 party . |
| 30 | A number of test cases on Sunday trading and the possible conflict with the treaty of Rome have already come before the European Court and all have been referred back to the various countries involved . |