Example sentences of "[noun] has come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow . |
| 2 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
| 3 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 4 | The handsome ground rent taken for temporarily housing the national side has come with a built-in penalty clause , too , it would seem . |
| 5 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 6 | Political defeat has come as a profound shock for the ruling Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |
| 7 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 8 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
| 9 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 10 | Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ? |
| 11 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
| 12 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |
| 13 | But the news has come as a total shock for many people . |
| 14 | The ruling has come as a bitter blow Brain Goldsworthy 's common law wife . |
| 15 | Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock . |
| 16 | Joe Brolly has come with a late run into the Derry side |
| 17 | The decision to sell Harford has come as a big blow to Luton boss David Pleat who said : ‘ I did n't want him to go but the club needs the money . ’ |
| 18 | The time has come for a radical re-examination of the provision of services for this particularly disadvantaged group of people . |
| 19 | We must recognize that the time has come for a national crusade against pornography . |
| 20 | For example , the donation of some R25,000 worth of roofing material has come from a French company . |