Example sentences of "come [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was worse to come 2 minutes from time . |
| 2 | For centuries to come English schoolchildren were to learn the rousing chorus which followed : |
| 3 | And how come civil servants have mobile phones in their cars ? |
| 4 | If he 'd like to come 100 yards down Yarm Road I would gladly take him on . ’ |
| 5 | On Monday , more academics swam in Johnson 's travelling aquarium : Principal Campbell , Professor Ross and a Dr Gerard , who had ‘ come six miles from the country on purpose ’ . |
| 6 | If the BBC had been consistently loaded against us , and in Neil Kinnock 's favour , how come these misgivings about him as Prime Minister have shown up yet again in the result of this election ? |
| 7 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've come three weeks early so that we can get in plenty of training , plus the three warm-up games . |
| 9 | During its short life Gandalf 's Garden evolved a style which made It , Oz , and the others that were to come later models of detachment and worldliness . |
| 10 | When the Labour party issued a statement of post-war aims in 1943 ( The Colonies : the Labour Party 's post-war policy for the African and Pacific colonies ) , it affirmed : ‘ For a considerable time to come these peoples will not be ready for self-government , and European peoples and States must be responsible for the administration of their territories . ’ |
| 11 | They used to come three times a week with lumps of ice , oh as big as that , about as thick as that , in bags . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From his innovations have come many developments opening the way for similar independently minded choreographers . |
| 14 | ‘ Within that tension of the already given and the still to come all Christians have to live — including charismatic Christians . |
| 15 | Out have gone the autumnal shades , in have come bold contrasts of saturated reds and greens . |
| 16 | Even when she passed the two-furlong pole , some five lengths off the leaders , she knew she had them ; but if the post had come ten yards earlier , she would never have got up . |
| 17 | Creggan could not rest or sleep , for out of the racing seas beneath their stance seemed to come troubled memories and images of a place where he once was , and eagles he once knew . |
| 18 | The soldiers had come five months earlier . |
| 19 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 20 | This was the product of centuries of historical accidents : indeed until the treaties of Madrid in 1526 and Cambrai in 1529 , which ended for several generations to come any vestiges of French sovereignty over Amiens and the Vermandois , it is hardly possible to speak of a state frontier at all between France and the Low Countries . |
| 21 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 22 | Tories more famous than he had come nasty croppers in the past at conference time , returning tight to their hotels . |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't trust them to people who 've had a year to get ready and still manage to come two hours late . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yet with the new season have come new strains which have opened up a fundamental debate about its future . |
| 26 | ‘ But John , if it is a world recession , how come other teams are doing so well ? ’ |
| 27 | Can we catch up , by a little clairvoyance , on the persistent tendency of state provision to come thirty years late ? |
| 28 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 29 | The final chapter in the story of imprisonment for debt came eight years later with the simultaneous passing in 1869 of the Debtors Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 62 ) and the Bankruptcy Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 71 ) . |
| 30 | A friend came eight years ago for his tea , he 's still here ! |