Example sentences of "have come [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday . |
| 2 | ‘ Hardly anything could cause a more widespread and painful sensation ’ , wrote The Times , ‘ the news of his death has come with a sense of shock and almost personal loss to millions . ’ |
| 3 | Does he further agree that the time has come for a period of consolidation ? |
| 4 | Brown has come on a kind of pilgrimage to the heart of urban blight . |
| 5 | But the move has come after a series of blows , including poor livestock sales and lower wool prices . |
| 6 | Funding has come from a variety of sources including the Wolfson Foundation and Charitable Trust , the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London , the British Glass Education Trust and private donations . |
| 7 | The major contribution to informed debate about the search for sites for the disposal of nuclear wastes has come from a group of geographers ( Openshaw et al. 1989 ) and a GIS approach to this problem can pay high dividends . |
| 8 | Pressure has come from a number of sources in the economic , political , social and legal environment , and there is survey evidence to demonstrate a growth in the number of consultative committees now in operation . |
| 9 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 10 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 11 | The angular , and in the case of the three women at the extreme left and right of the Demoiselles , rather ‘ faceted ’ appearance of the figures , and the heavy , chalky highlights found in certain parts of the drapery could well have come from a study of El Greco 's work . |
| 12 | ‘ Little Violetta seems to have come as a bit of an afterthought . |
| 13 | The order , put at about £500m , was reported to have come from a group of British fund managers acting through Barclays Bank in London . |
| 14 | Hello there … welcome to Australia for a Central South sporting special … where we 've come for a race of the future … the Solar Challenge … sun powered cars racing through the wild outback … that 's our Friday Feature … first it 's back to Britain … for our football parade |
| 15 | I 've come to a series of decisions . |
| 16 | You 've come to a number of those I guess ? |
| 17 | I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months . |
| 18 | ‘ George Graham has been very supportive in the last few years , during which I 've come through a lot of problems . |
| 19 | I 've come across a bit of architrave by the way . |
| 20 | Another burst of applause announced the arrival of the Prince of Orange , who had come with a handful of staff officers . |
| 21 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |
| 22 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |
| 23 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 24 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 25 | Regarding Massawa as an essential channel for aid to northern Ethiopia , Western government representatives at the UN on April 24 called for a ceasefire around the port , which had come under a series of government bombing attacks [ ibid . ] . |
| 26 | He had come as a student of farming to this dairy , thinking he would be here only a short time . |
| 27 | If the invitation had come as a result of anxious discussion with Jenny about Cassie 's state of mind , and she rather thought that it had , Ben showed no sign of it . |
| 28 | The Department of Trade and Industry , which is responsible for firework safety , said yesterday that the decision to examine how casualty figures were collated had come as a result of a meeting with local authorities . |
| 29 | But if the two of them had come by a windfall of some sort , she was n't going to ask questions about it . |
| 30 | The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech . |