Example sentences of "be coming [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Two families have spoken about how they 're coming to terms with a playgroup accident that changed their lives .
2 And that 's what they 're doing , they 're coming into peoples gardens and rushing down the sewers again , you know ?
3 Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s .
4 County councils are coming to terms with dramatic changes in the balance of power after a disastrous election night for the Tories .
5 Now in a council bedsit , Barry and Diane Gammage are coming to terms with unemployment for the first time in their working lives .
6 We are coming to terms with a major sport which is of great interest to a great number of people .
7 by people people who come are coming for interviews
8 Most of the shares are coming from stockholders .
9 ‘ Now we get 200 a month , of which more than 100 are coming from employers who want to develop such policies …
10 How many are coming from conversions , how many are coming from green field as opposed to brown field sites .
11 ‘ I 've been coming to games at the Manor since I was 10 … not every week like but since three seasons ago I have n't missed a match — I 've been to them all .
12 Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy .
13 Meanwhile at Oakhill Primary School in Dumbleton where Ben Garvey went to school , parents and pupils have been coming to terms with his death .
14 Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony .
15 Visit Malham at mid-day on a sunny Bank Holiday and it will be " fair thranged wi' folk " , yet wait until evening when the charabancs have gone and the cars have motored their way back downdale , and Malham becomes again a quiet little place , the only noise coming from the Hikers ' Bar of the Buck Inn where legions of Pennine Way pilgrims have slaked their thirst ; or from the bar of the Listers Arms where Dalesfolk have been coming for years to taste the best steaks in the Dales .
16 See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers .
17 Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years .
18 She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months .
19 It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way .
20 It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way .
21 I 'm accepting it , I 'm coming to terms with it .
22 In the mid-nineteenth century life expectation was rising , especially for the new middle class , and central and regional authorities were coming to terms with the urban influx , which had changed the face of Britain .
23 Today friends and colleagues were coming to terms with her murder .
24 It got to the stage where me and Mum were coming to blows .
25 An er they were coming in er the Norways , they were coming in bundles of a hundred .
26 The being that they were taller , and older , they were coming in bundles of about fifty do you see .
27 It turns out now that reality is coming to countries all over western Europe , and although I 'm s I 'm sorry to see the difficulties that our colleagues and friends in western Europe are having erm they are beginning to realize that one or two aspirations of the so social contracts may be extremely expensive .
28 Shocked is coming to terms with her loss her own way .
29 The other is coming to terms with a more liberal society where dissent and public protest are no longer automatically met with assault and arrest .
30 This is hardly surprising since one of the major activities of childhood is coming to terms with emotions , managing emotions , and establishing to what extent our own society , community , or family finds the display of emotions acceptable .
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