Example sentences of "come a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | men tend to come a wee bitty more expensive |
| 2 | She used to come a long way , right from the top of to walk down to her Co-op , a long way . |
| 3 | At the moment , therefore , interpreting the new treaty involves a degree of extrapolation from case law yet to come a difficult business . |
| 4 | Well it , if they 're , if they 're pointed going to come , if we 're going to come a full member of the Common Mark it 's no laughing , we laughed , we laughed at bloody Hitler did n't we ? |
| 5 | At the bottom of the hierarchy of the production structure , where spirits are assumed to be crushed , have come a new army of workers — fresh , vivacious and increasingly angry . |
| 6 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
| 7 | ‘ So how come a nice girl like you is trailing the streets of London beating up strangers under an assumed name ? ’ |
| 8 | Despite having come a close second to every junior side in the county at least once over the years , as the senior side in the tournament it is hardly surprising that Athletico should have done remarkably well . |
| 9 | Foinavon had come a remote fourth in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park the previous December but few disputed that his starting price in the Grand National was a true reflection of his chance . |
| 10 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 11 | I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly . |
| 12 | The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
| 14 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
| 15 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 16 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 17 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 18 | We 've come a long , long way in just five years . ’ |
| 19 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 20 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 21 | Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion ! |
| 22 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 23 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 24 | Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) . |
| 25 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 26 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 27 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 28 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 29 | We have come a long way . |
| 30 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |