Example sentences of "coming to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Coming to the subject by way of the biological sciences , she stressed the value of biological principles applied to human geography .
2 As they made clear throughout the case , they are neutral as to the outcome , and their purpose in coming to the court , as the terms of their application expressly shows , is to seek directions in the situation which has arisen .
3 The impropriety of coming to the court when political capital was sought to be made could not be overstressed .
4 I 'm coming to the court tomorrow . ’
5 Have goals will travel striker , Imre Varadi is coming to the Manor on loan from Leeds .
6 Oxford United skipper Andy Melville is set to join Sunderland … in a part exchange deal with half a million pounds and Irish defender Anton Rogan coming to the Manor
7 its Oxford 's turn this week … the Live match is coming to the Manor Ground on Sunday for United against Leicester City … to rugby now … and Gloucester 's season is having all sorts of ups and downs … they 're on a high at the moment thanks to a resounding win over Leicester Tigers on saturday … the score at Kingsholm was thirty six … thirteen
8 Her hands kept busy as she glanced across at her daughter and said : ‘ I do n't suppose you 'll be coming to the Chapel , will you ? ’
9 He did not know what had possessed him the night before , yet , gradually , the sweetness she gave him began to dissolve his confusion ; his vivid spurt of pleasure returned to him and he looked across at her and asked , ‘ Will you be coming to the passeggiata next Saturday ? ’
10 Time is assumed discrete , but the time period is so short that the probability of two or more vacancies coming to the individual 's notice within any given period is zero .
11 In 1867 , nearly twenty years after coming to the throne of Austria , Francis Joseph was crowned here by that same Count Andrássy who , in the aftermath of 1848 , he had sentenced to death .
12 If the Queen lives to 92 — and she has said she wo n't abdicate — Charles would be 70 before coming to the throne .
13 In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant .
14 Something permanent had clearly been created in Virginia and , shortly after coming to the throne in 1625 , Charles I did what he could to stabilize the situation by declaring it a royal colony and taking into his own hands the power to appoint the governor .
15 But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night .
16 Although throughout the crisis Alexander III had expressed his contempt for any concessions to appease the government 's critics , for some two months after coming to the throne he hesitated to reverse official policy .
17 In the five years since coming to the throne in 1553 , Mary had vented her hatred of Protestantism upon her subjects and had tried — against their will — to force the clock back .
18 A more radical proposal is to phase out the allowances over a five-year period , again with the commitment to use the increased revenue coming to the Exchequer to cover cuts in the standard rate of tax and increases in child benefit .
19 It must ( a ) try to be a little less Spanish ( Jasmine 's ballet is Spanish ) and ( b ) give the impression that they are coming to the village .
20 For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there .
21 I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week .
22 It 's no use coming to the village of Eastham north of Tenbury Wells for a drink ; there 's no pub .
23 If we leave the city by the north gate we will travel through the fief of Armishir before coming to the foothills of the mountains themselves .
24 But he also mates with several other young females who take turns in coming to the nest and adding their own contributions to the clutch that he is incubating .
25 The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion .
26 On 13 November Colonel Durand learned from Wade that he was not coming to the relief of Carlisle since the roads through Yorkshire were inadequate for his artillery .
27 Coming to the gate , he looked in at the cottage and instantly recognized the fourth photograph in Heather 's collection .
28 After work in several London hotels and gambling clubs in the early '80's he bought a pub and when this failed he found himself waiting at Phyllis Court before coming to the Golf Club .
29 the the flats is er a a no go area sort of thing and a kid 'll come along and spray summat on a wall and next day three kids 'll come along and spray things on the wall , so that you 've got more and more graffiti going all over the place , more and more rubbish , more and more people coming to the flats just to get into trouble .
30 since coming to the flats ?
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