Example sentences of "comes [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But if my kid comes off a pedestal , the language comes off the pedestal too .
2 But if my kid comes off a pedestal , the language comes off the pedestal too .
3 both arms and comes off the camber
4 Now schools are forecasting more job losses as £7m comes off the education budget .
5 Sometimes people go for a corner intending to commit themselves , but , although the brain is trying to hold the foot down , it somehow comes off the gas pedal at the very last moment .
6 The unit goes in the basement , plant room or wherever , and the hotel comes off the grid supply of electricity — although it is sensible to retain a connection for emergencies .
7 As the linker needle comes back towards the knitter , the stitch is in the hook of the linker needle and comes off the machine needle .
8 The wind comes off the sea so predictably that the first nine , which is played into the wind , was deliberately designed 300 yards shorter than the downwind second nine .
9 D1771 comes off the loop with a local trip freight in 1965 .
10 Which soon comes off the shoulder anyway .
11 The cover over the top allows the moisture which comes off the food to stay beneath the oil and seal it .
12 So every ten point six minutes , another engine comes off the end .
13 it comes off the grass you see
14 which involves like when the frames comes off the weaving and they 're yarn left , I strip the yarn off .
15 Start at 900–1000 rpm and , once the needle comes off the peg , slowly increase the revs to about 1500 rpm .
16 Pioneer electric ‘ Tommy ’ comes off the August 1964 special at Guide Bridge , leaving B1 61158 to continue to Buxton .
17 Martin Ling is injured , so Fitzroy Simpson comes off the bench to play in midfield .
18 The skirting boards are slightly charred ; a singed smell comes off the rug and curtains .
19 As humans liberate themselves from the constraints of nature ( scarce resources ) through technology , there comes about a domination of nature .
20 Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road .
21 When the light comes , after a few seconds , it comes as a sunrise .
22 The current whirlpool of political trial and experimentation in Eastern Europe comes as a tonic contrast to the years of ideological stagnation for almost everyone except Mr Deng , President Ceausescu and , regrettably , President Fidel Castro .
23 if somebody comes as a resident to one of the developments that you now presently run are they there normally for years or for months ?
24 It comes as a bit of a shock to see how much faster others can sail upwind .
25 Spend all your life hanging around on the edge of the scrum and it comes as a bit of a shock to get a pair of fingers up your nostrils .
26 His blessing always comes as a surprise , and can be recognized by its very ‘ arbitrariness ’ and seeming absurdity .
27 It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter .
28 The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century .
29 To someone familiar only with black holes , this behaviour of a white hole comes as a surprise .
30 It comes as a surprise to most people to learn that the experts are still arguing over something as basic as how a cat purrs .
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