Example sentences of "[verb] come [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 2 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 3 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 4 | Later , when they realised Japan 's true intentions , Aung San and the small Burmese army , backed by an underground movement , decided to come over to the British , a very courageous step when you realise their numbers , and their limited arms . |
| 5 | ‘ I keep coming back to the same point , John . |
| 6 | And er what I see of the modern teacher I 'm probably looking out with three different eyes , they do n't seem to come up to the same standing as those men were , at all because one thing that I I remember very vividly about them all , and they were family men , what I call family men . |
| 7 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 8 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 9 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 10 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 11 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 12 | the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else . |
| 13 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |