Example sentences of "have come a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 From France has come a striker , Jean-Pierre Papin , a former ‘ best European player ’ .
2 With improvements in educational technologies , more detailed understanding of how behaviour is controlled and developed , and a greater focus on curriculum planning has come a flood of new opportunities for people with learning difficulties .
3 YORK has come top in a survey to find the most cycle-friendly place in the country but the rest of the region has come a cropper .
4 Lovers of freedom throughout the world looked to this vision with hope and it is with profound sadness that they see the vision momentarily dimmed , and with this dimming has come a confusion of purpose and a sense of despair that was never known before in America .
5 MOTHER Teresa 's dream of setting up a refuge for London 's homeless has come a step nearer — thanks to the generosity of Daily Mirror readers .
6 With this effort to deploy support for the arts in New York has come a proliferation of arts alliances , organizations and advisory committee .
7 If the 1930 agreement had taken effect fully , there could never have come a time when the freehold to the remainder of No. 263–265 would be left without a road frontage .
8 Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier .
9 The share prices of Catalyst Communications and of Corton Beach , strictly on a temporary basis , dropped back ; these erstwhile giants of the OTC market seemed to have come a cropper .
10 He said oh I 've come a bit too early have I ?
11 I 've come a cropper over this before , bemoaning the appalling performance of a 386/40 until I noticed that the tiny turbo light was off and , instead of running at 40MHz , the machine was running at 8MHz !
12 ‘ I 've come a hell of a long way , you know .
13 had come a bit loose
14 WHEN THE SIGNALS to cease battle had been exchanged , and there had come a respite in the noise , and the smoke was curling lazily into the blue where clouds flocked and billowed , the islanders fell back and took stock of their situation .
15 We made ball and roller bearings for the car trade , the car trade had come a slump and the car trade to this day does n't want one bearing or one detail for a car until it 's ready to put it on a car .
16 With the Scottish interests had come a stake in Border TV , which Lonrho kept .
17 In the words of Zohreh Tabatabai , Chief of Public Services of the United Nations in New York ; ‘ If this had come a year ago , we would have said ‘ no way ’ .
18 For them Friday the 13th had come a day early .
19 There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder .
20 From behind the tee had come a cheer which changed into a gasp .
21 And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper .
22 Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 .
23 Though they have done well in Germany and Belgium ( they now own one-tenth of all the office space in Brussels ) , Swedish investors have come a cropper in London .
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