Example sentences of "[adv] come [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Those 35 were good enough to come through the pre-qualifying system .
2 The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal .
3 Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ?
4 They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months .
5 Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again .
6 The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter .
7 So what you would have had for the whole of ninety two and the whole of ninety three will all come in , will all come in the second half of ninety three .
8 As the final sentence of the chapter puts it , The belief which inspires every paragraph of the present Report is that this much-desired spiritual unity in the nation and the equally necessary uplift in the whole level of the popular imagination can only come through a general acknowledgement of the paramount place which the native speech and literature should occupy in our schools and in the common life of our people .
9 " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end .
10 But his tortured mind could only come to the same conclusion .
11 So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible .
12 The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level .
13 True knowledge and true understanding , it is implied , can only come from a divine source .
14 At Ashburnham , Brown created a late eighteenth-century sense of ‘ wilderness ’ that could only come from the utmost ingenuity ; sudden ‘ surprise ’ views of the house replaced the structured avenues and rigid vistas of earlier occupants .
15 These all come under the general heading of ‘ public opinion polls ’ , and can take many forms .
16 They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World .
17 The solutions they proffer only come from the limited range of their own experience .
18 Perhaps come for the first time .
19 I think that these inflated ideas perhaps come with the old language of the church , and if you 're going to do that well then , all hail to you and er presumably you mean it if you 've gone there .
20 The eight shades — Ecru , Cream , Lemon , Mint , Pale Blue , Peach , Pink and Red — are available on 65 gram balls ( 400 yards ) , whilst White only comes on a 75 gram ball ( 450 yards ) .
21 He only comes to the odd party .
22 The information in the Labour party 's document all comes under the new education standards commission that will take over responsibility for Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and co-ordinate the work of local inspectors .
23 They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath .
24 There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area .
25 He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield .
26 We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep .
27 The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing .
28 The metopes presumably came from an earlier monument of the same city , not apparently a treasury but an open colonnade , perhaps a baldacchino to shelter but not conceal some large offering .
29 Due recognition was soon to come to the industrious doctor : in 1716 George I created him a baronet , an honour as yet conferred on only one other physician .
30 I 've just come from the Foreign Office , and you 're immediately on a new assignment .
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