Example sentences of "[adv] coming [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 those necessarily coming into effect before being laid ( e.g. , where publicity would nullify their effect ) if due notice of the fact and the reasons for it has not been given to the Speaker , ;
2 To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment .
3 The risk of events occurring prior to the Balance Sheet Date but only coming to light after the Accounts have been signed off should be placed on the Vendor .
4 Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy .
5 The ancient civilizations were firm believers in a form of hypnosis ( although the word itself had not been coined at that time , only coming into existence in the early nineteenth century : it derives from the Greek hypnos , meaning sleep ) .
6 I think they 're only coming in case there 's any money for them . ’
7 Now some people , even though the Green Party has er been an established party for some time now , might feel that er it , this is the Green Party perhaps coming of age because it does n't sound like a Green issue , you 're , you 're discussing things across the board at the moment are n't you
8 He was obviously coming into form .
9 Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils .
10 So really you can actually avoid not coming into contact with it , but , two years ago , just really everywhere you walked there 'd be someone dealing or whatever , so you could n't really avoid it .
11 I gets on telephone , I says June 's not coming into work today .
12 Yeah I really missed you not coming into work with me yesterday .
13 Anyone who has ever suffered at the hands of military pomposity will relish the story of General Patton inspecting a hospital in France and screaming abuse at a man for not coming to attention in his presence , only to be told ‘ Run along , asshole .
14 It only works , in fact , partly because people do not eat very much and partly because most of the work , the energy needed to fire the bullock , is not coming from wheat , it is coming from food that is not directly available to man .
15 Martin 's not coming after school today , his granny Jean 's going to meet him because his mum has to go to Scotland with her work so Trevor has to push the triplets home in the buggy .
16 In the Operations Room , some of the female part-time watchkeepers were just coming on duty and were being briefed on the operations that were planned for the day and those that were already taking place .
17 Perhaps we ought to make people aware that , just coming along security is n't .
18 He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn .
19 When Gan was complete , the Britannias , which were just coming into service with the RAF , would be able to reach Singapore without overflying India .
20 At the far end of the village street , just coming into sight and foreshortened by distance and the ancient lens , was a battalion of French infantry .
21 If you are a countryman , you may sit by a stream and contemplate a may tree just coming into blossom , or climb up on the ramparts of an iron age hill fort and let your soul soar with the wind .
22 I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) .
23 The gregarious owls were juveniles less than a year old just coming into breeding condition , but unable to find a place to nest in the plantation .
24 Bills of exchange , the forerunners of cheques , were just coming into fashion .
25 When they were in the market she insisted on his buying a pair of white loons , which were just coming into fashion .
26 As they climbed over the hedge , he was struck by the beauty of the day ; the hedgerows were just coming into leaf and the meadow was dotted with buttercups and daisies .
27 Left with no choice but to accept the responsibility or to pursue its own independent inquiries , the airline instructed Windels , Marx , Davies & Ives to prepare its defence and to investigate the suggestions of government complicity that were already coming to light .
28 Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light .
29 Mary is very sorry that she has to put off coming to dinner tonight They are not sure about getting a baby-sitter .
30 Beebob has been gradually coming to hand this season , and can strike winning form in the Guildhall Handicap Hurdle .
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