Example sentences of "to come [prep] [noun] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other practical suggestions were that professional groups likely to come into contact with this issue need to be well informed and should be educated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I think I 've finally managed to come to terms with that débâcle . ’ |
| 7 | The age of capital found it difficult to come to terms with this problem . |
| 8 | It was not easy to come to terms with this view of Isabelle as someone who received love without giving in return . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Merrill was still trying to come to terms with this reversal of her convictions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What about this mum 's army of teachers is this going to come to fruition as some point or not ? |
| 14 | ( The British land policy in India was to come to grief over this dilemma . ) |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gas and oil pipelines were already being laid and the first oil and gas field at Eckofisk was more or less ready to come on stream at that time . |
| 17 | The new site , because of its dependence on steam , needed regular coal supplies and , as the railway had not by this date reached Bourton , coal supplies had to come by cart from either Adlestrop Station , some six miles away , or Cheltenham , sixteen miles away . |