Example sentences of "[adv] come [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | True knowledge and true understanding , it is implied , can only come from a divine source . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These all come under the general heading of ‘ public opinion polls ’ , and can take many forms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The solutions they proffer only come from the limited range of their own experience . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He only comes to the odd party . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area . |
| 20 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 21 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Some of the original brigadistas , the young literacy teachers , who mostly came from the urban areas , also continued to work in adult education , and others became teachers in the formal school system . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 26 | I 've just come from the Foreign Office , and you 're immediately on a new assignment . |
| 27 | This from Garry who had just come in the front door . |
| 28 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 29 | I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne . |
| 30 | A number of test cases on Sunday trading and the possible conflict with the treaty of Rome have already come before the European Court and all have been referred back to the various countries involved . |