Example sentences of "comes [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Check if this carries VAT — it comes as a nasty shock if you are not expecting it .
2 Although his may not sound much , after reading the book and getting to know the calm character of Mrs Aimsley , it comes as a big surprise when she starts to get very emotional and make irrational accusations to Imamu .
3 A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner .
4 It therefore comes as no great surprise that these systems are not easily linked up to talk to one another .
5 It comes as the central priority because without a successful economy nothing else prospers .
6 I know , if he comes through the back door and
7 THE ARRIVAL of a live album usually comes with a tacit admission that a band are either low on new material or about to suffer an imminent career flop and need one last cash-in .
8 It comes with a protective hood and shopping tray .
9 The set comes with a 25-year guarantee and is attractively gift boxed .
10 There is an option for institutions to subscribe for shares in individual authorities but that comes with the ominous warning that there is no guarantee the shares will be available .
11 It comes with the same features as the Open Desktop 3.0 , minus networking and Merge emulation .
12 It comes with the same features as the Open Desktop 3.0 , minus networking and Microsoft emulation .
13 She comes with the reluctant insouciance that says , ‘ You may have paid for me but you do n't own me . ’
14 Or is it just that Health comes under the national budget but religion is considered to be propaganda ?
15 Indirect evidence for this hypothesis comes from a recent study where urinary and faecal concentrations of 5-ASA and Ac-ASA were measured after taking both 5-ASA and Ac-ASA by either the oral or rectal route in human volunteers .
16 Novelist Graham Roos , 26 , who has known Antonia for eight years , said : ‘ She comes from a cosmopolitan background and she is quite sophisticated .
17 Like Brown , he comes from a poor background and ‘ in an utterly priggish way ’ ( his phrase ) he had felt that Brown 's antics reflected badly on the working classes , including himself .
18 The barracking comes from a small minority and it 's hard to take .
19 The principle is essentially the same as the support for a cupboard on a wall — its main support comes from a horizontal batten and simple screws keep it vertical .
20 George comes from a large family and the home situation is acknowledged by his parents to be stressful because of overcrowding and financial difficulties .
21 Please sir , Axl 's doctor said we 're to be nice to him because he comes from a broken home and he has to wear a kilt .
22 ‘ She comes from a privileged background but she had a childhood that was very hard , ’ says her astrologer Felix Lyle .
23 He comes from a musical family and might be faced with a difficult decision before he is much older .
24 One exception , imaginatively titled ‘ Gulf War : The Board Game ’ , comes from a Malaysian company that discovered it could change an America v Russia contest into a Gulf version without rewriting any of the rules .
25 erm I think in terms of techniques is is is a level of awareness really , to be able to respond to children erm with their curiosity and with their erm expressions of anxiety erm in a way that makes it all right for them to be feeling the way they are , and I do n't think it 's simple as just saying a technique , I think it 's what we can offer as adults comes from an inner awareness that we have as adults , that we can convey to our children , because it 's not just the techniques , or the behaviour , or the words that we use , but it 's those feelings behind the words .
26 Beccaria 's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment .
27 Michael Degnan , 30 years in Bishop Auckland , strutted the theory last weekend shared by Arthur , Squeak and a few others of the Cumberland 's Friday night faithful that the name comes from the cockfighting pit that once was out the back .
28 However , essential as that support is , perhaps the greatest drive of all comes from the normal dreams that all parents have for their children .
29 As a result of the various Immigration Acts there is now virtually no ‘ primary ’ immigration from the New Commonwealth ; most settlement comes from the close relations and dependents of those already resident in Britain ( ibid . ) .
30 This butterflyfish comes from the Tropical Atlantic and the Caribbean .
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