Example sentences of "[adv] come [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 3 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area . |
| 14 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 15 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne . |
| 19 | As Ian Brown , of Lee Moor Farm in Northumberland , noted : ‘ A fact that saddened me lately came from a recent survey which suggested that the average family business — not just farms but all family businesses — lasts only 25 years , which I guess is only a generation . |
| 20 | The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop . |
| 21 | All this soon came to an abrupt end . |
| 22 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 23 | But the inspiration finally came in an unlikely form . |
| 24 | Langton led them through two more doors , finally coming to a small room with a desk and two chairs . |
| 25 | ONE of the most important food crops in developing countries , the sweet potato , may soon come in an insect-resistant variety — and at a reasonable cost . |
| 26 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 27 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 28 | Everyone has made gifts for all others present , and these normally come with a little poem from ‘ Sinterklaas ’ himself . |
| 29 | Any radical critic of society has always come from an unattached group of artists and intellectuals . |
| 30 | Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use . |