Example sentences of "[noun pl] as come " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 2 | But now I think of these ideas as coming from a principle far more subtle . |
| 3 | In the case of the exclusive language of traditional hymns , it is better that congregations be helped to respect and accept such hymns as coming from a former age than that they be either inappropriately altered or abandoned altogether . |
| 4 | However , Stemberger ( 1984 ) has recently argued that the grounds for treating open and closed class lexical items as coming from two separate vocabularies are not convincing since many of the differences in error patterns for the two classes can be explained by differences in the frequency of items in the two classes , and by differences in the potential frequency with which certain kinds of error can occur for items in the two classes . |
| 5 | IN THE LAST ISSUE of Observations Wynne Harlen wrote about ‘ what is educational research ? ’ and described her favourite quotations as coming from Lawrence Stenhouse . |
| 6 | Some medieval historians have even depicted the Saxon invaders as coming in to a completely unpopulated landscape . |
| 7 | Conciliar recognition that the practice of family planning , and not simply the acceptance of as many children as came was the morally responsible and best form of behaviour for a Catholic , represented a very considerable change in attitudes . |
| 8 | Madell Wilmot , chief executive John Madell dismisses complaints as coming from the ‘ loony fringe ’ , saying the Independent Television Association managed to pass the ad without any major comment . |
| 9 | Third , Greeks in the fourth century and later are described in written sources and inscriptions as coming from Naukratis , which was the old port of trade between the Greeks , with their silver to sell , and the xenophobic Egyptians with their more stagnant economy — but a surplus of wheat . |
| 10 | So the years went by , and such involvements as came along never satisfied me as being quite right enough either for one thing or the other . |
| 11 | You can visualise the inputs as coming from an array of photo-electric cells , which we call its retina . |