Example sentences of "be come [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff at the Bordon and Alton offices are coming under increasing pressure with an ever growing number of enquiries as the hard times continue to bite . |
| 2 | It is understood businessmen in the Holywood , Bangor and Newtownards areas of North Down are coming under increasing pressure from UVF figures to hand over weekly sums of cash . |
| 3 | Tax havens are coming under increasing pressure in high tax rate countries . |
| 4 | ' It is just that my friends are coming under great pressure from their communities over the incident . ’ |
| 5 | Undoubtedly benefits are coming from those sorts of changes that come from the Health Service reforms . |
| 6 | But I am sure that we should get on better if we were to come to some terms with them " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I realized that the voices were coming from different rooms in the building . |
| 9 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 10 | Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence said : ‘ Due to increasing legislation , the management of waste is coming under stricter control with pressure being borne directly on waste producers to get their house in order . |
| 11 | A senior mining executive has warned his colleagues that in the wake of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro the mining industry is coming under intense scrutiny over its environmental record . |
| 12 | Mr Parkinson is coming under heavy pressure from competing private consortia to approve an alternative route to a new terminus at Stratford in east London , which they say would be cheaper than the British Rail scheme to Waterloo and King 's Cross . |
| 13 | Many people feel a sense of overwhelming loss , loss of safety and security , perhaps , at the news that is coming from that part of the world , and yet find themselves unable to absorb the import of what is being said . |
| 14 | Our Dave 's coming for us , he ca n't have all that time off , he 's coming for three weeks in er |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | You were up to and over your knees in water in the trench : it was supposed to be our dug-out and it was coming through these bits o' wood and we were a-sodden wet through and cold . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , West Germany was coming under increasing pressure from the Commission to lift its ban imposed in early November on the import of British beef products , imposed because of fears that they were infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE , or " mad cow disease " ) which might be transferable to humans . |
| 18 | By that time , the test was coming under heavy criticism from the trade bodies , including the Scottish Motor Trade Association , which took the unprecedented step of arranging special insurance cover to protect its members against possible damage claims . |
| 19 | However , there were unconfirmed reports in July and August that the PLO was coming under some pressure from moderate Arab states to accept the exclusion of East Jerusalem residents . |
| 20 | At first I heard only a few calls ; within ten minutes , at least twice as many animals were calling , and , by circling about the pool , I observed that a steady stream of spadefoots was coming from all directions to the breeding area . |