Example sentences of "come at the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 2 | The disclosure came at the trial for insider trading of Thorold Mackie , an investment analyst and director of Bell Lawrie White . |
| 3 | The summer came at the beginning of August . |
| 4 | The first exchange came at the beginning of November 1929 . |
| 5 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 6 | My change to Heriot 's came at the end of Primary 6 , + I heaved a sigh of relief , + launched myself into more complex friendship systems , of which there were many ! |
| 7 | A note duly came at the end of September , hurtful in its brevity , frustrating in its lack of information : — thank you for the money sister which is put to good use your son being in need of shoes and all manner of apparel since he grows apace . |
| 8 | Frederick came at the end of June , a broad , beefy soldier with a very big bottom . |
| 9 | His first appointment as a royal justice came at the end of Henry III 's reign . |
| 10 | Go-ahead to start the final artwork came at the end of spring 1988 with an autumn deadline , providing the option to work from fresh material available throughout the summer . |
| 11 | Another sore point was de Gaulle 's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric , which sometimes came at the expense of substance . |
| 12 | Coming at the pace of oxen . |
| 13 | The received wisdom that the imposition of stringent pollution controls will come at the expense of jobs is wholly wrong , according to a report by Professor David Pearce , adviser to the Environment Secretary . |
| 14 | God created the world , humans fell , in time He sent His Son Jesus Christ , who lived , died and rose again , and who will come at the end of time . |
| 15 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 16 | In the middle there is a little pond with a fountain , and the golden carp that swim in it are so tame that they come at the sound of Dennis 's voice . |
| 17 | Ironically , the most noticeable example comes at the end of scene ten , when Broadbent admits that Anderson 's advice on the Czech team 's tactics has proved depressingly sound : Anderson 's laconic replies implicate his loss of interest in the topic , following scene six , even now that Broadbent actually shows interest in what he had said earlier and allocates a turn to him twice . |
| 18 | The greatest of the epilogues for me comes at the end of Don Quixote where Quixote says , ‘ I have battled , I have made mistakes , but I have lived my life as best I can according to the world as I see it , and now … ’ . |
| 19 | But Irvine 's job boost comes at the expense of Workington , where Volvo 's bus operations were located before the transfer to Scotland as part of a rationalisation . |
| 20 | But the launch comes at the start of Cholesterol Countdown week , when people are being urged to eat less fatty meat . |