Example sentences of "have come [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As far as I can see there is no evidence that when [ he ] has absconded he has come to any real harm . |
| 2 | It has come to some tentative conclusions about the relationship between the quality of argument and computer software . |
| 3 | And now , very recently indeed , confirmation has come from that remarkable treasury of early fossils , the Burgess Shalesin the Canadian Rockies . |
| 4 | Policy development has come from two main sources . |
| 5 | McDonald 's restaurants in Central and South America ( Argentina , Brazil , Costa Rica , Guatemala , Mexico , Panama and Venezuela ) only use suppliers who document that their beef has come from long established cattle ranches — not rainforest land . |
| 6 | If promised reforms of US healthcare live halfway up to some of the lurid stories being bandied around on Wall Street , then the new administration on Pennsylvania Avenue will have missed a trick : almost every job created since the recession began in 1990 has come from this vibrant industry . |
| 7 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 8 | Twenty percent of our patients would have had recurrence in that year , but on the basis of our experience , we think it unlikely they would have come to any great harm , as a result of having their cystoscopy delayed , and we would recommend this protocol to the management of superficial bladder cancer . |
| 9 | If only she could turn back the clock she would never have come to this wretched country in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ You must have come across some real characters on this train , ’ I suggest . |
| 11 | Studying the results of the general election of 1974 , the latest held before the publication of its Report , the Commission could have come across some disconcerting figures . |
| 12 | Then the water vapour which condensed into oceans must have come from early volcanic activity and from the gaseous components of the solid Earth itself . |
| 13 | ‘ The test has shown positive , but as far as we know at the moment it could have come from many different sources . ’ |
| 14 | The council 's pollution control officer , Jim Dickson , said he had heard no reports of oil pollution in that area and suggested the oil may have come from some other source . |
| 15 | Bluestack Bill , the singer , must have come from these damp Colorado badlands . |
| 16 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 17 | Though the news of her ‘ engagement ’ could not possibly have come from any other source than he of the ‘ My office — now ’ order . |
| 18 | We did not believe that the issue should have come within that particular article . |
| 19 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 20 | ‘ I had to come before two great nations died . |
| 21 | There was no fresh capital , the project did not have a specific budget so any money had to come from existing tight maintenance and operating budgets . |
| 22 | And I further think you 're working all on your ownsome on this and that 's why you 've come to good old Uncle Mo instead of going to the boys at Langley . |
| 23 | Year after year , watching the Tories make a mess of it , so we we 've done , we 've come to this temporary arrangement , and it 's worked I think . |
| 24 | " When you 've finished saying all that you want to say about these things , though , do you feel that you 've come to any definite conclusion ? " |
| 25 | They 're standard army ammunition , but not necessarily issued to the British Army — again , the Ministry of Defence should be able to tell you if they 've come from some British Army depot or not . |
| 26 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 27 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 28 | Johnson , as he did at Montrose , also employed much silence , and many who had come to one social occasion or another expecting to hear the grand disquisitioner , found him disappointingly reticent and withdrawn , even if making little antic noises to himself . |
| 29 | But Pascoe had come to this broken-down hotel in these bleak streets already guessing that Charlie probably was n't Zeno . |
| 30 | No-one had come to these dead caverns in centuries . |