Example sentences of "[verb] come [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside the world 's fastest economic growth rates ( real GNP rose by 12.8% last year , an annual 14% in 1993 's first quarter ) has come accelerating inflation . |
| 2 | The wheel has come full circle . |
| 3 | Thus the wheel has come full circle : the main feature in the design of the primitive sickle is included — much to its advantage — in the latest models of the combine harvester . |
| 4 | The Heart of Wales Line has come full circle ; from prosperity in the early days , via near disasters , to what seems to be a gradual revival of its fortunes today . |
| 5 | Since the early days when the entire collection was catalogued in one small book , the role of the Botanic Garden has come full circle . |
| 6 | A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle . |
| 7 | Cross the Bahnhof bridge , and you will have come full circle back to the starting point . |
| 8 | Although her wide-ranging attacks on the public housing-building ‘ industry ’ go further than her data alone would justify , the story of post-war public housing seems to have come full circle . |
| 9 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 10 | In many ways we 've come full circle : in the early days of lesbian feminism , lesbian theorists demonstrated that anti-lesbianism is the most intense form of woman-hating . |
| 11 | Tories more famous than he had come nasty croppers in the past at conference time , returning tight to their hotels . |
| 12 | With the new science and technology had come new weapons of destruction : armoured tanks , steel submarines and warships , aerial warfare , bombs , machine guns and the huge infantry field-cannons . |
| 13 | The wheel had come full circle since the heady days of expansion after the Robbins Report in 1963 . |
| 14 | From those early Tudor days the English house had come full circle , but these Edwardian houses were warm , practical and comfortable ; they epitomized countrified romanticism . |
| 15 | It had come full circle . |
| 16 | Spookily enough , I had come full circle : I was back working for Alan Lewis , the man who 'd given me my first music press job — as his secretary at Sounds , back in ( gulp ) 1977 . |
| 17 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |
| 18 | She had come full circle . |
| 19 | The conversation had come full circle . |
| 20 | Tonight she had come full circle — from merely suspecting Luke 's motives to hearing him finally admit them . |
| 21 | By the end of the nineteen fifties life in Orkney had come full circle and like everyone else we had acquired a taste for the material things in life . |
| 22 | We spent Chairman , two and a half hours discussing this matter at that point and we had come full circle back to point 1 . |
| 23 | She said homeopathy had come full circle now and it was quite the in-thing to be treated by herbal remedies . |
| 24 | In place of the Fabian imperatives of post-war planning and the corporate outlook of the 1944 White Paper , there had come sectional interest and a declining confidence in the public sector . |
| 25 | Yet with the new season have come new strains which have opened up a fundamental debate about its future . |
| 26 | But the benefits have come full circle , for the long master chronologies subsequently established for archaeological dating and calibration of radiocarbon results are now of just as much value to climatologists studying cycles in weather patterns associated with factors like sunspot activity and variations in the earth 's orbital parameters . |
| 27 | And perhaps , sensing that matters have come full circle , some of that era 's pop idols are returning to host a new generation of adult oriented music shows . |
| 28 | But we have come full circle : by sliding from discussion of women as wives to a discussion of women as mothers and carers , we are once more caught up in the dilemmas about benefits for children outlined in the previous section . |
| 29 | We have come full circle now . |
| 30 | So we have come full circle . |