Example sentences of "coming [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But immigration officials said no , believing she was coming for paid work . |
| 2 | Winter barley was coming through new green . |
| 3 | Grows in clear , flowing water coming through calciferous terrain . |
| 4 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
| 5 | Jimmy saw him coming through blurred vision and wished that he could get to his feet , but he could n't move . |
| 6 | We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience . |
| 7 | Newcomen died in 1729 , when his engines were coming into increasing use all over Europe as well as in Britain , and soon in America too , but he had gained little financial advantage from his invention . |
| 8 | The English could use these at will , and looked to do so later ; the Scots could not approach them without coming into close range of archery they had learned to respect . |
| 9 | They catch them just by coming into close contact with someone who is infected . |
| 10 | The top then slid off the units , the front edge coming into violent contact with my shins , the near edge colliding with the wall-mounted china display until containing my wife 's best china . |
| 11 | The weather that mid-April had turned fair and mild ; the trees were coming into delicate leaf , and ladysmocks fluttering over the marsh meadows . |
| 12 | SVR General Manager Michael Draper has confirmed that the problem was that the wheels of the 8F were coming into intermittent contact with the frames . |
| 13 | It 's good on Covermaster , but if you think you can keep your living assurance in line with inflation even when you 're likely to be coming into poor health , it is a brilliant concept . |
| 14 | I for one very much welcome the possibility of custodianship as yet another route to permanence for children in care , or at risk of coming into long-term care . |
| 15 | Precisely when these four additional kadiliks — or five , including Mecca — became mevleviyets is not clear in every case , though it is certain in one case , and entirely possible in the others , that they were not made mevleviyets immediately on coming into Ottoman possession . |
| 16 | Because of what has gone before , young people coming into residential care need security and a sense of belonging , neither of which they may have experienced in great measure before . |
| 17 | But parents , children and young people do not regard coming into residential care as an admission of failure . |
| 18 | But they are gradually coming into grammatical focus . |
| 19 | A week later it is evident that Fox-type gear was coming into common usage with no need to refer back to the specific case — ‘ a teenage girl was seized by two men wearing ‘ fox-style ’ balaclavas and raped at knife-point ’ ( London Evening Standard ) . |
| 20 | Let us again consider as an example children coming into local authority care . |
| 21 | The artefact 's affinity to the unconscious also allows it to play an important role in marking different forms of social reality , and allowing these and the perspectives arising from different social positions to exist concurrently without coming into overt conflict . |
| 22 | He does , however , have some general advice for anyone coming into British Coal from the outside . |
| 23 | But now , the soft clicks coming with typical irregularity , he listened to them painfully and let his mind slide back ten years to what he must remember , to the truth he must recall if he were going to be able to tell lies . |
| 24 | She awaited her coming with mixed feelings . |
| 25 | By the time she reached her room , the old remembered pains were coming with great frequency . |
| 26 | Nutty was trying quite hard , the other skills coming with great difficulty . |
| 27 | Two of the three British Sea Kings assigned to the operation then returned to Srebrenica with the sole objective of rescuing the Canadians , coming under renewed Serb fire as they did so . |
| 28 | The traditional core of church music is increasingly coming under critical scrutiny by the cathedrals themselves . |
| 29 | For that matter , how was the history of the Ancient World , as preserved in documents surviving from antiquity , which were now , for the first time , coming under critical scrutiny , to be made compatible with the divinely inspired , and therefore unquestionable , history of mankind as embodied in the Pentateuch ? |
| 30 | In the immediate post-war period , the main legal concern lay with local authorities which across the country were coming under Labour control . |