Example sentences of "we come to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 2 | Someone whistled them out when we came to the narrowest place , bows strung and shafts fitted , shouting to us to halt . |
| 3 | There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge . |
| 4 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 5 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |
| 6 | When we came to the German trenches there was nothing to see . |
| 7 | When we came to the third hole I thought we were going to need some of that cushion . |
| 8 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 9 | Finally , we come to the new county of Mid-Glamorgan , which inherited as its institution of higher education the Glamorgan Polytechnic , at Treforest , Pontypridd . |
| 10 | In summary , we come to the following conclusion : |
| 11 | Now we come to the current account — the year-by-year income and expenditure on which the holding will succeed or fail . |
| 12 | Now we come to the serious part of this letter . |
| 13 | So we come to the second implication , which is that the student has to understand the practical aspects of the life of reason . |
| 14 | At this stage we do not know whether the " dayes ' are general ( which would imply that the missing verb is are ) or particular ; but we get a clearer picture when we come to the second clause " when I / Shin " d " . |
| 15 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 16 | So we come to the second point . |
| 17 | This paradox about being able to predict one 's actions is closely related to the problem I mentioned earlier : Will the ultimate theory determine that we come to the right conclusions about the ultimate theory ? |
| 18 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
| 19 | The truth is that it is this party and this Government who have consistently sought to defend employees and trade union members over the past 12 years , and that is what the country will bear in mind when we come to the general election . |
| 20 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 21 | Finally , we come to the managerial labour market constraint . |
| 22 | Given that we have victims , we come to the delicate matter of breeding . |
| 23 | ‘ So , now we come to the crucial bit . |
| 24 | Now we come to the ironical side of it all . |
| 25 | We come to the living world with senses adapted to primate life , and we may miss things that are too fast , too slow , too big or too small . |
| 26 | As we come to the great season of Christmas , throughout the country schools and churches have been celebrating with their festivals , especially those of nine lessons and carols . |
| 27 | I 'm a creature of habit — in the way I have my hair cut , the suits I wear , the eternal brown boots that I get ribbed about and which are fleetingly seen by the viewers at the end of the programme as we come to the closing headlines . |
| 28 | So doing , we come to the unanimous view that the dismissal was unfair . ’ |
| 29 | We come to the different conclusion , and we we think that a settlement between , from those sources , that a new settlement between fifteen hundred to two thousand could support a reasonable range of services , and we when we look at Barton Willmore 's evidence we do n't see the support for their conclusion , if one reads each individual service , one fi comes to the view that a new settlement between fifteen hundred two thousand would support a reasonable range of services . |
| 30 | Perhaps the first thing that strikes us as we come to the Old Testament is the tremendous emphasis on the Spirit of God as a violent , invading force . |