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

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1 In the final , Cowan met up with Mark Schofield ( Lancs ) , the number two seed who himself had come through a tough semi-final meeting with fellow Bisham boy , Philip Fowler .
2 Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers .
3 The most awkward joints were where the glazing bars met the curved members , any-way , after cutting about fifty joints in all , rebates for glass , slots for fielded panels , mouldings on corners and moulded glazing fillets the time had come for a complete dry assembly of the members .
4 But now , I think he 's come into a great second flowering .
5 He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed .
6 That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks .
7 Come on man , I 've got Come with a nice young lady , intelligent In a cardboard box , informer lick your boom boom there lick your boom boom there with my dibby , dibby dob , police knock my door , they shout my crib , rough me up and I ca n't do a thing , pick up the when the telephone ring informer .
8 My father was a missionary had come from a dusty little town in South Africa , I 've got many wonderful experiences in my life , I 've had experience of heart transplant .
9 Most notably , the Spanish strategy was being implemented by a modernizing , socially reformist government , while in Britain the increasing pressures on the railways in recent years have come from a radical Conservative government hostile to the public sector in principle .
10 One night at a Sandinista party high on the mountains outside of Jinotega , I found out the advise had first come from a certain political adviser with offices in Old Compton Street , London .
11 The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age .
12 That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) .
13 Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ .
14 Much of the northern produce has come from the subpolar maritime fringe , notably whalebone and whale oil from the open sea , seal oil , hides and furs from islands and sea ice , fish , and , most recently , shrimps from the continental shelf and slopes .
15 The remainder come from the following four categories :
16 Objections to the application for planning permission had also come from the Western Regional Fisheries Board and Westport Tourism as well as several individuals .
17 Much of what we now know about the tool-using behaviour of wild chimpanzees has come from the remarkable long-term studies carried out at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania by British primatologist Jane Goodall .
18 Impressive though this result is , the transplanted nucleus had come from an early embryonic stage .
19 Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later .
20 The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’
21 They had come in a good strong box , which Boy had kept .
22 At present the authorities in Berlin are having difficulty coping with those who have arrived so far , though no more than 1,100 or so have come in the past few days .
23 ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself .
24 ‘ The light is come upon the dark benighted way .
25 The realization that these three systems can interact , and the identification of the mechanisms involved , has only come within the past few years .
26 The nearest any western fighting technique has come to the eastern martial arts , is in the French art of ‘ la Savate ’ .
27 Thus , both the Fisher and Cambridge versions of the quantity theory come to the same important conclusion : that an increase in the money supply leads directly to an increase in spending and , with full employment , the general price level is proportional to the quantity of money in circulation .
28 Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion .
29 ‘ You 've come at a gay bad time .
30 He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment .
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