Example sentences of "[verb] come [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties . |
| 2 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 3 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 4 | Similar support for a modified accelerator theory as a determinant of investment has come from the recent studies of Catinat ( 1991 ) and Ford and Poret ( 1990 ) . |
| 5 | It is undeniable that a great deal of important and fundamental research has come from the several centres of excellence in the USA . |
| 6 | But the most cohesive programme to yet be devised has come from the United Nations Environmental Programme ( UNEP ) . |
| 7 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 8 | I am sure the last named came from the sinister words occasionally overheard , ‘ If there were another war … . ’ |
| 9 | Some of the first victims to be helped came from the war-torn streets of Greece … |
| 10 | Karin went down with a group of 20 divers expecting to come across the usual remnants from ships like portholes and anchors . |
| 11 | Now as your sheet tells you and as you should know if you read it carefully , punctuation marks where someone is speaking come inside the inverted commas , so , the question mark is a type of punctuation , is n't it , obviously , so it comes within the inverted commas. okay ? |
| 12 | He must have come across the low fences that separated the row of back gardens . |
| 13 | It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes . |
| 14 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 15 | We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers . |
| 16 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 17 | He tore a page from his notebook , offered it with a pencil to Sharpe , then volunteered his own patrol to take the despatch to General Dornberg 's headquarters in Mons. Dornberg was the General in charge of these cavalry patrols which watched the French frontier , and finding one of his officers had been a stroke of luck for Sharpe ; by pure accident he had come across the very men whose job was to alert the allies of any French advance . |
| 18 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 19 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 20 | Both animals , with many others , had come from the higher parts of the rivers . |
| 21 | They claimed the move had been simply to bring Scotland into line with England and Wales and that the initiative had come from the big bookmakers , who would be the main beneficiaries . |
| 22 | The greatest period of administrative reform in the history of the Habsburg territories had come in the two decades after 1749 ( see pp. 153–4 ) ; here Joseph achieved much less than his mother . |
| 23 | John Gibson , 28 , a farmer , said he had come upon the two men in his barn eight hours after the alleged bank raid . |
| 24 | The question that has kept coming over the past weeks is : what will this new network sound like — what will it offer ? |
| 25 | ‘ People forget that the nucleus of our side — notably our pack — is made up of players who have come through the junior ranks . ’ |
| 26 | It will be more concerned with how industrial relations practices are related to the distinctive logic of operation of public enterprises , and how they have changed as the enterprises themselves have come under the political pressures referred to above . |
| 27 | We may forever want confidence that we have come to the ultimate facts about some physical process . |
| 28 | Forced to examine the situation anew , I have come to the following conclusions : |
| 29 | Since 1950 my influences have come from the Flemish Primitives , Frances de la Tour and Stanley Spencer . |