Example sentences of "to come [prep] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tory candidate Tim Devlin has been accused of ‘ political mischief ’ in his claims of more home rule to come for Thornaby by Labour rival John Scott . |
| 2 | Other practical suggestions were that professional groups likely to come into contact with this issue need to be well informed and should be educated . |
| 3 | Norway boss Egil Olsen has insisted all his players must be playing first team football to come into consideration for international duty . |
| 4 | We have now changed our statistics to come into line with industrial practice and the recommendations of the Health and Safety Executive , by measuring incidents per 1,000,000 hours , [ rather than per 100,000 hours we used up to 1992 ] . |
| 5 | Wolf 's exciting plates were engraved by J. W. and Edward Whymper , the famous mountaineer ; but by Wolf 's day the new technique of photography was beginning to come into use in scientific illustration . |
| 6 | The sight later of these hundreds of flaring candles , from across the river , as the light faded on a grey evening , was as near as I was able to come in Lourdes to any sense of holiness , so oppressive otherwise is the sense of the business of holiness . |
| 7 | The strongest opposition is likely to come from supporters of nuclear power , which was cut sharply in the Clinton budget . |
| 8 | Activists , educators , campaigners , call them what you will , have a tough task in this country , with an individualized , nuclear-family society reluctant to come to meetings of any sort , and a resistance to being engaged by a message that in the short and medium term questions their lifestyle , material aspirations , and culturally-engrained assumptions that Our Way of Life is best . |
| 9 | ‘ How funny to come to London for French style , ’ Constance replied sweetly . |
| 10 | But in his last job , Mr Redwood was just beginning to come to terms with Labour council leaders . |
| 11 | It compelled the Church to come to terms with lay society ; to find an accommodation between its own ideals and those of the warrior aristocracy ; and so , in the end , to civilize that society , as well as , in some respects , to lower its own ideals . |
| 12 | That 's the plea from those who have suffered as a result of having to come to terms with criminal behaviour . |
| 13 | ‘ When sport is trying to come to terms with economic reality , I can think of one area in the business which will say as a result of this that they can not associate themselves with it — sponsorship . |
| 14 | ‘ When sport is trying to come to terms with economic reality , I can think of one area in the business which will say as a result of this that they can not associate themselves with it — sponsorship . |
| 15 | France was not unique in having to come to terms with East-West tension and pressures for decolonisation after the war , but for various reasons these two problems had a particularly important impact on her . |
| 16 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 17 | It took her a long time to come to terms with that presence ; the proximity of an armed police officer was the most potent reminder of the gilded cage she had now entered . |
| 18 | I think I 've finally managed to come to terms with that débâcle . ’ |
| 19 | The American view of the Middle East situation was that any failure of British colonialism to come to terms with Arab Nationalism would open the door to Communist infiltration and eventual domination of the area . |
| 20 | The Waterdance , which charts the struggles of a novelist trying to come to terms with sudden paralysis , also drew great praise . |
| 21 | The age of capital found it difficult to come to terms with this problem . |
| 22 | It was not easy to come to terms with this view of Isabelle as someone who received love without giving in return . |
| 23 | The failure to come to terms with this task casts light on , though it does not excuse , the hectic character of the final part of Braudel 's Méditerranée : even when connections are traced between conjonctures and the actions of individuals , they tend to leave the actions heavily under-determined — so much so , in some cases , that they are barely explained at all . |
| 24 | Sweeney Agonistes , as much as the later prose of Arnold , is an attempt to come to terms with this situation and to react against it . |
| 25 | Merrill was still trying to come to terms with this reversal of her convictions . |
| 26 | For some years now , conveyancers have " exchanged contracts " by telephone ( as in Record v Bell above ) , and the law of contract has had to come to terms with electronic mail in the form of faxes . |
| 27 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 28 | What about this mum 's army of teachers is this going to come to fruition as some point or not ? |
| 29 | ( The British land policy in India was to come to grief over this dilemma . ) |
| 30 | What is bound to come to mind at this point is that there are pairs of things distinct from , but fundamentally like , a causal circumstance and its effect . |