Example sentences of "come [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are old men still up there who say , ‘ Your old man was a wonderful five-eighth , but he used to come the knuckle . ’ |
| 2 | In years to come the percentage difference is likely to be much larger . |
| 3 | The needs of commerce and government created a native middle class ( from which were later to come the leaders of nationalist movements ) . |
| 4 | But for decades to come the countries in which this happened were politically important as fields for the rivalries and ambitions of the European imperial powers rather than in their own right . |
| 5 | Only those situations which are really knotted , with personality or relationship difficulties of long standing , tend to come the way of a qualified or specialist social worker for elderly people . |
| 6 | In years to come the commercialisation of BR via sectorisation could well be seen by historians as important as grouping and nationalisation . |
| 7 | ‘ I told him to come the day before the operation , ’ she says ‘ I thought I 'd still be looking fairly reasonable then . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I shall still want you to come the day after tomorrow . ’ |
| 9 | Still to come the day 's sporting action , but first financial report in association with Barclay 's Bank for your financial needs . |
| 10 | Even if some of the signs of upturn , of turn around , of better things to come the government are trying to trumpet at the moment . |
| 11 | The National Curriculum gives through design and technology , maths , science and subjects yet to come the potential for developing practical skills as never before . |
| 12 | Still to come the future of the Jet project at Culham . |
| 13 | The answer to it I just do n't know , but the Food Safety Act deals with some of the future , some of the future objectives in terms of better training for people who handle food , and tighter controls on food businesses , so it 's something to look forward to , and hopefully in years to come the figure will begin to drop . |
| 14 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 15 | Even in the year we won the league , there were worrying signs that the defence could be very fragile when teams made the effort to really attack us — hence the 4 goals conceded against man city and QPR — which was a sign of things to come the season after . |
| 16 | This is less satisfactory for the vendor , however , as it will remain liable as tenant of the landlord and there is a risk that in years to come the purchaser may be unable to pay the rent . |
| 17 | How come the board have allowed Cuntona to go for a sing and a prayer ? |
| 18 | Then , while a Navy surgeon lieutenant — she liked the sport and a contract that would last nicely into her forties — had come the memoranda . |
| 19 | In recent years , however , has come the realisation that adults learn best when they have a say in what and how they learn . |
| 20 | However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years . |
| 21 | She had known they were n't going to make love the moment the sound of that door being either opened or closed had penetrated , and flooding in had come the memory that she was Mr and Mrs Hepwood 's guest . |
| 22 | There 's the ‘ I 'm so fat I could be a turkey ’ type of robin ; the ‘ Is n't there more to life than standing on this stupid twig ’ robin ; and , the special favourite , the robin with the ‘ How come the cattle always get to go in the stable ? ’ look . |
| 23 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 24 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 25 | The money has come the Government 's waiting list initiative . |
| 26 | After the film noir of punk had come the escapist musical spectacular of ‘ the new pop ’ , demonstrated in a wild flamboyance which banished the austerity of punk rock to the shadows . |
| 27 | With peace had come the School 's first Sixth Form as that term is understood today , with nine members . |
| 28 | Her great-grandparents had lived in this house ; it was her great-grandfather who had bought the farm ; but from where had come the money for a Polish immigrant to buy a farm in those far-off days remained a mystery to both her grandfather and , of course , her father . |
| 29 | As he had grown older , his anger had turned to cold bitterness , and creeping into his mind had come the idea of revenge , something subtle enough to humble his mother , make her realize that he lived , without killing her . |
| 30 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |