Example sentences of "to come [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You wo n't get the AA to come for hours on a day like this . ’ |
| 2 | The programme , presented by Nigel Forde , is due to come off air in the summer . |
| 3 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 4 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 5 | While it did not mark the end of the conflict — though the early decrees of the Biblical Commission were quietly withdrawn in 1955 , the Biblicum was to come under attack on the eve of the Council — it was the most important milestone in the history of Catholic scriptural scholarship . |
| 6 | During the period of Chinese disunity the Japanese had supported the powerful warlord , Zhang Zuolin , who ruled Manchuria as his private province for much of the 1920s , but Zhang 's position , like that of the other warlords , began to come under threat from the rise of the Nationalist movement under Chiang Kai-shek ( Zhiang Jishe ) . |
| 7 | And the government 's so called mum 's army proposals for teaching youngsters are expected to come under fire at a meeting in Nottingham later today . |
| 8 | It was to come into contact with a man who could write and see and feel . |
| 9 | The Government , police and military authorities are committed to ensure that , where feasible and sensible — the hon. Gentleman will know what those words mean in the context of the Province — Army patrols likely to come into contact with the public are accompanied by an RUC officer . |
| 10 | Care had to be taken in fitting the cotter-pins securing the grips , and grooves were cut on the inside of the coffin into which the cotter-pins were bent , so as not to come into contact with the lead shell . |
| 11 | Suddenly I was very aware of the vulnerability of my nose and front teeth , should they happen to come into contact with the granite of Porteniel 's pavements at any velocity above quite a small fraction of a metre per second . |
| 12 | If a large number of people are likely to come into contact with the chemical , the committee recommends testing on mice and other small mammals . |
| 13 | To touch a dead man or to come into contact with the blood of an injured person would make them unclean and mean that they could not carry out their duties . |
| 14 | We shall consider the respective roles of Parliament and the courts , and in particular we shall examine the jurisdiction and functions of those courts and tribunals with which the caterer is likely to come into contact in the exercise of his or her profession . |
| 15 | A new export-processing zone near Lomé , designed to attract foreign capital and develop non-traditional exports , was expected to come into operation after the publication of enabling decrees by the Council of Ministers in May 1990 . |
| 16 | Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd says that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Communications Authority of Thailand , the Directorate General of Posts and Telecommunications of Vietnam and OTC International of Australia to build a new optical fibre submarine cable system linking Thailand , Vietnam and Hong Kong ; the planned cable will also link to other cable systems and give direct connections to the rest of the world , and is set to come into service by the end of 1995 . |
| 17 | Channel 4 chairman Sir Richard Attenborough said later they faced an impossible dilemma — ‘ whether to reveal identities we had undertaken to protect , at risk to human life , or whether to come into conflict with the law . ’ |
| 18 | The directive , which had hitherto been opposed by West Germany , Greece and Spain , was due to come into effect at the end of 1994 ; the Commission aimed to reach agreement on a single passport for insurance companies during 1990 . |
| 19 | by enacting that a licence is to come into effect on the day it is granted or renewed ( subss. ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ) . |
| 20 | An increase in the level of fines is scheduled to come into effect in the autumn of this year ; but in the meantime the temptation remains for large stores to open on Sundays . |
| 21 | On Dec. 16 the Czech National Council adopted , by an overwhelming majority , a Constitution for the Czech Republic to come into effect after the split of Czechoslovakia into two independent countries on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 22 | It is not surprising , therefore , that the current educational reforms , due to begin to come into effect from the autumn , have been studied with particular care . |
| 23 | The protocol disbanding the treaty , which called for the promotion of a gradual shift towards all-European security structures on the basis of agreements achieved at the Paris CSCE ( Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe ) summit in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , was expected to come into effect by the end of the year , once it was ratified by all six parliaments . |
| 24 | This change has been recommended by the Legal Services Ombudsman , and will require a change in the law , expected to come into force at the beginning of 1994 . |
| 25 | But there 's an Equal Pay Act that 's supposed to come into force at the end of 1975 — that will give women equal pay and a bit more power . |
| 26 | In a peace initiative brokered by Zaïre 's President Mobutu Sese Seko , a draft ceasefire agreement was reported to have been signed between the Rwandan government and the FPR in Zaïre on March 18 and was due to come into force at the end of March . |
| 27 | The biodiversity convention signed at the summit has been ratified by the required 30 countries and is due to come into force at the end of this year . |
| 28 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 29 | Still to come before Christmas at the Nursing Home are as follows : — |
| 30 | The Group , which intends to operate nationally , does not set an upper limit on the size of customer , but expects 80 per cent of its work to come from companies with a turnover of between £0.5M to £5M . |