Example sentences of "have [adv] come [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ONE OF the first railway privatisations of the century has finally come of age with the clearance of a unique hire purchase agreement with British Rail .
2 The panel did n't review supermodel Cindy Crawford 's new video which has already come under fire in some fitness circles but Mr Dickinson adds : ‘ It clearly contains some of the exercises the panel had elsewhere criticised as outdated ’ .
3 The use of antibiotics in factory farming , both to combat infection and to promote growth , has also come under criticism in the salmonella scandal .
4 The traditional role of the local government officer as the neutral bureaucrat has also come under stress from the growing militancy of local authority trade unions .
5 However the modern corporation has also come under attack on grounds of Christian justice .
6 The River Nene around Peterborough has really come on form for roach in the last few months , despite the weather , with double-figure hauls of quality fish commonplace .
7 Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes .
8 SCIENTIFIC investigation of other societies and other ages has increasingly come under attack from relativists claiming that other cultures , and even other scientific paradigms , can be understood only from within , and only in their own terms .
9 A preliminary version of ‘ La Danse ’ , a mural painting executed in 1933 by Henri Matisse for the home of Dr Barnes at Merion near Philadelphia ( see p.7 ) has recently come to light in the possessions of the youngest son , art dealer Pierre Matisse .
10 As the conditions changed to the more temperate climate we know today , so the proportion of reptiles had decreased — but there was no overall trend of the kind that would be implied if the mammals had only come into existence in the later geological periods .
11 The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule .
12 The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop .
13 It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head .
14 It was a sort of cabaret to the main business of the halt , which was the consumption of quite a lot of a bear which had incautiously come within bowshot of Hrun .
15 I had already come into conflict over race and patriotism .
16 The second stage of the field work involved contacting ‘ hidden ’ heroin users , that is , those who had not come into contact with Wirral agencies .
17 Following on from the analysis of known heroin use , the second stage of the ethnographic work involved contacting the ‘ hidden ’ sector , those who had used heroin during the course of the prevalence study period , but who had not come into contact with any of the ten statutory or voluntary agencies surveyed .
18 Having mapped out the general social and drug career characteristics of users interviewed in the four snowball samples , the following section will discuss why these users had not come into contact with the various voluntary and statutory bodies expected to deal with the ‘ heroin problem ’ .
19 ( Private radio had been introduced by a law passed in August 1987 but which had not come into effect until Oct. 6 , 1989 . )
20 She hardened her heart and thought she should swiftly make it clear she had not come in search of him .
21 News of the suspension of the conference , which had resumed on Jan. 14 after a series of delays but had soon come into confrontation with the government , was greeted with demonstrations in Kinshasa .
22 The investigators had also come into possession of what was said to be Fhimah 's personal diary , improbable though it must have seemed to them that a trained intelligence agent would keep one or put anything in writing , let alone the incriminating English word ‘ taggs ’ ( sic ) in the middle of an entry in Arabic and then , according to media reports , leave the diary behind for the investigators to find .
23 Lately Mr Serrano had also come under fire on human rights .
24 The video had originally come into use as a promotional device — a way for a group to receive television coverage , in Britain and abroad , without the expensive and time-consuming necessity of travel , hotel bills , etc .
25 Although a UN-brokered ceasefire agreement had supposedly come into force on Nov. 1 , there was serious fighting between Nov. 1 and 5 in Luanda and the central and southern towns of Benguela , Huambo , Lobita and Lubango , in which at least 1,000 people were killed .
26 But talk about a hassle they wanted , they , well they picked the be the pr you know the present that you c you claim erm , a deep fryer and I think it was in March time and by July it still had n't come in spite of ringing and writing and everything else
27 A lot of teachers jump to conclusions about pupils before they 've even come into contact with them and broken through the pupil 's resentment .
28 Bashir dismissed the Industry Minister , Mohamed Omar Abdullah , and the Minister of Transport and Communications , Ali Ahmad Ibrahim , whose departments had reportedly come under criticism for poor performance .
29 Yes , this was the closest that Lexandro had yet come to communion with elder Brethren .
30 But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself .
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