Example sentences of "come [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the tide running in his direction , Havelock Wilson renewed his campaign in a series of meetings of sailors and firemen all over the country , declaring that a majority of the shipowners of the United Kingdom were favourable to a National Board and that " it will come if the seamen are united and demand it " . |
| 2 | Urge to urinate may come if the patient becomes chilled . |
| 3 | Its programmes are much the most susceptible to ‘ salami slicing ’ , since it is difficult to claim that the end of the world will come if the Army receives , say , ninety instead of a hundred tank replacements in a particular year . |
| 4 | Oh that was messy , you 're telling me was messy , I 've known cups of tea , you put a cup of tea on there the other cup of tea was there , well we never used to have saucers could n't afford them , that 'd be there a mug of tea and that 'd move like that off the table that 'd come cos the dredger was shaking so much . |
| 5 | Many think that these will come before the decade is out . |
| 6 | The more useful decision and design stage will come after the route has been taken and the consequences faced . |
| 7 | Recovery will come when the country 's creditors decide that the return on money in the bank has fallen so low that the price of assets has become cheap . |
| 8 | But we do n't want to break the door down ; we will come when the whole of the French auctioneering profession is ready to welcome us ’ , says François Curiel , Director of Christie 's Europe . |
| 9 | The time will come when the managers wish to realise their investment in Newco . |
| 10 | The real breakthrough will come when the pot plants grown from rainforest seed are sold as such — when customers in down- town LA choose their purchases for the help they give to commercial community-based conservation as much as for their leaf colours . |
| 11 | If it were , the day would come when the man behind the shining table lamp would toss a fountain pen in my direction and tell me to sign a piece of paper , and I would say , what the hell , why not ? |
| 12 | For Swift , of course , the disillusionment will come when the man discovers that the woman he worshipped as a goddess is only too physical , as in ‘ The Lady 's Dressing Room ’ : |
| 13 | Meanwhile there were those in the British government ( notably Duncan Sandys , the minister of defence ) who were convinced that a time might come when the United States , from fear of Soviet nuclear attack against itself , might hesitate in its support of Europe . |
| 14 | Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings . |
| 15 | Officials concerned with environmental policy predict that a day of reckoning will come when the issue has to be faced again . |
| 16 | The turning point may come when the US supreme court decides that genetic injustice is so immense that it is within the law to show an employer or the insurance falsified genetic identity . |
| 17 | On the ( implicit ) assumption that market prices for land would rise , the time would inevitably come when the charge would begin to greatly exceed the corresponding claim on the 300 million fund . |
| 18 | Jesus goes on to say that the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away . |
| 19 | A dominant rider and timid horse may not be quite so bad at first , because the rider will give the animal confidence ; even so , the time will come when the rider does not have enough bottle for both of them and will be better off finding a horse with the drive and courage to match . |
| 20 | " Nevertheless , " put in Sir Gregory 's youngest son Amyas , tapping the tips of his slender fingers lightly together , " there are many who believe that the day will come when the prophecy of Regiomontanus will be fulfilled . " |
| 21 | They were the people who were already ‘ suffering greatly from having some 57,000 boat people there and more and more and more would come when the season came for them to leave Vietnam . ’ |
| 22 | Yet the time may come when the unions will have expiated their follies of the sixties and seventies , partly through the rationalisation and mergers of the past decade , partly through reforms forced on them by changes in the law during the eighties , partly by a public rediscovery that trade unions are a necessary part of a free society . |
| 23 | Peace will come when the terrorists realise , as they must , that they will never be allowed to prevail . |
| 24 | Peace can only come when the terrorists are thoroughly defeated by the forces of law and order . |
| 25 | Those responsible must ensure , however , that the quality of programmes on those days remains high or dis-illusionment will come when the novelty goes . |
| 26 | Also , as the years between initial membership and the present day extend , a time must come when the accuracy of any " anti-monde " is open to serious doubt . |