Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow . |
| 2 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
| 3 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 4 | The handsome ground rent taken for temporarily housing the national side has come with a built-in penalty clause , too , it would seem . |
| 5 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 6 | Political defeat has come as a profound shock for the ruling Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |
| 7 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
| 8 | The British Bankers Association has sent a letter advising people to be on the alert ‘ if the money in a deal purports to come from a miscellaneous offshore source or if the intermediary is a small company in the suburbs . ’ |
| 9 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 10 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 11 | The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan . |
| 12 | The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit . |
| 13 | The announcement on the morning of 22 November of Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign came as a dramatic surprise to the public because , up to that point , all the outward signs had been that she intended to stick to her initial resolve to contest the second ballot . |
| 14 | The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people . |
| 15 | Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ? |
| 16 | One thing that , that we did spend , I mean , I do n't know the Festival seems to come in an awful rush this time I suppose cos , cos |
| 17 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 18 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 19 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
| 20 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |
| 21 | But the news has come as a total shock for many people . |
| 22 | The occasional remark passing seemed to come from an infinite distance , and be answered after a prolonged interval . |
| 23 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 24 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 25 | The ruling has come as a bitter blow Brain Goldsworthy 's common law wife . |
| 26 | For a communist militant who had devoted his life to the struggle against fascist barbarism and oppression , the revelation that the Soviet communist state had come to a private agreement with Hitler 's Nazi Germany was a mortal body blow . |
| 27 | Fifteen yards down the street , the man had come to an uncertain halt , his eyes searching both sides of the street for a glimpse of his prey . |
| 28 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 29 | I know this caused an immense amount of debate at Personnel sub-committee , and I thought that Personnel sub-committee had come to a reasonable solution . |
| 30 | The tip had come from a reliable source . |