Example sentences of "come [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time had come for a deaf person to occupy it and Hudson 's chairmanship therefore lasted only three years . |
| 2 | The time has come for the Prime Minister to stop playing Conservative party politics with the issues and to rise to the real level of the challenges that confront us in Britain , everyone in Europe and , indeed , every inhabitant of the planet . |
| 3 | Now that the time had come for the depleted garrison to shrink back inside the new fortifications , accommodation had to be found for the ladies displaced from Dr Dunstaple 's house . |
| 4 | It had come as an unpleasant shock to realize how much they knew : those employing the man , that was — the French Haute Police , as they called themselves . |
| 5 | By the time they had reached Martha 's house , most of the neighbours had come into the narrow street to watch . |
| 6 | It will be more concerned with how industrial relations practices are related to the distinctive logic of operation of public enterprises , and how they have changed as the enterprises themselves have come under the political pressures referred to above . |
| 7 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 8 | On the contrary , some of the best evidence for the presence of a linear graduation process has come from the biographical material given by samples of fans in the three major groups . |
| 9 | The treasure had come from the French baggage captured at Vitoria in Spain , a country where Sergeant Patrick Harper had found both wealth and a wife . |
| 10 | The observation of the Great Wall has come from an ambitious project to map the positions of all visible galaxies which are brighter than a specified minimum . |
| 11 | But , as it is , the 325i scrapes by as a comfortable four-seater with the proviso that four tall occupants will have to come to a front/rear legroom compromise that would n't even need to think about in a Peugeot 405 . |
| 12 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 13 | ‘ I would urge all those involved to come to an early decision to ensure that work can start quickly . ’ |
| 14 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 15 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 16 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 17 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
| 18 | ‘ I have come on a scientific investigation to rectify the freak effect which brought those poor unfortunates , ’ he waved at the screen , ‘ to this forsaken place . |
| 19 | This , at its most exalted , represented the aspiration of Owenism ; and though few Owenites would have heard the song , when the time came for the countless host to stream in through gates of pearl , that surely is what they could have sung as they marched . |
| 20 | Despite publicity about their strict code of conduct , it was obvious that the rules had been broken because when the time came for the first troupe to go home , John was astounded to learn that eight out of the sixteen had married during the run and intended to remain behind and every one of the other eight was engaged . |
| 21 | It came as a mild shock to realise that there was none . |
| 22 | The move came as a new report revealed there are enough vehicles in London to fill a 75-lane M25 . |
| 23 | Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel . |
| 24 | Gavin , who chose The Crusades , 1095–1154 , as his final specialist subject , said : ‘ It came as a great surprise to win . |
| 25 | Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship . |
| 26 | It came as no great surprise to discover that , in the Department 's view , the new Committee ‘ could well function within the structure of the Technician Education Council ’ . |
| 27 | The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they de dropped or roughly handled during transport . |
| 28 | The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they be dropped or roughly handled during transport . |
| 29 | The ruling by the German athletic federation ( DLV ) came after a 14-hour hearing stretching over two days which had firstly proposed a reduction of the ban from four years to three months , before further deliberations resulted in the adjudication lifting the suspensions because of anomalies in the testing procedure . |
| 30 | The National Party 's poor showing in the elections — it lost three seats to the ALP — came despite the economic problems affecting much of rural Australia . |