Example sentences of "come [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap . |
| 2 | She did n't want to come against the flat slack flesh . |
| 3 | Japan risks remaining saddled for years to come with the primitive financial sector that created the domestic boom and bust of the late-1980s . |
| 4 | He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed . |
| 5 | That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) . |
| 6 | Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ . |
| 7 | Much of the northern produce has come from the subpolar maritime fringe , notably whalebone and whale oil from the open sea , seal oil , hides and furs from islands and sea ice , fish , and , most recently , shrimps from the continental shelf and slopes . |
| 8 | The remainder come from the following four categories : |
| 9 | Objections to the application for planning permission had also come from the Western Regional Fisheries Board and Westport Tourism as well as several individuals . |
| 10 | Much of what we now know about the tool-using behaviour of wild chimpanzees has come from the remarkable long-term studies carried out at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania by British primatologist Jane Goodall . |
| 11 | Subject to approval by both Houses of the UK Parliament , the measure was expected to come before the 1994 General Synod for formal declaration . |
| 12 | ‘ Indeed a bill might be one of the first to come before the Scottish Grand Committee . |
| 13 | At present the authorities in Berlin are having difficulty coping with those who have arrived so far , though no more than 1,100 or so have come in the past few days . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 15 | That was an odd comment to come from the right hon. Gentleman who , judged from his comments in recent days , would not have accepted the social charter . |
| 16 | The biggest European danger to Millar seems likely to come from the six-strong German contingent , who include two of their Seoul Olympic gold-medal team , Franke Sloothaak and Ludger Beerbaum . |
| 17 | ‘ The light is come upon the dark benighted way . |
| 18 | The realization that these three systems can interact , and the identification of the mechanisms involved , has only come within the past few years . |
| 19 | It was n't Miss Wharton 's morning and Mr Capstick , who likes to come to the nine thirty Mass , had influenza . |
| 20 | And you 're most likely , here not just for communion but because it 's your custom to come to the six thirty service . |
| 21 | Use the erm , they they invited the Chislehurst May Queen , dan maypole dancers to come to the next open evening . |
| 22 | The nearest any western fighting technique has come to the eastern martial arts , is in the French art of ‘ la Savate ’ . |
| 23 | Thus , both the Fisher and Cambridge versions of the quantity theory come to the same important conclusion : that an increase in the money supply leads directly to an increase in spending and , with full employment , the general price level is proportional to the quantity of money in circulation . |
| 24 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 25 | I will certainly look with compassion in days to come on the three hon. Members whom I have not been able to call on the statement , but we have a busy day ahead of us . |
| 26 | Now if you 're a horse racing fan … the brain will be galloping … the mouth watering … at the thought of what 's to come over the next few weeks … |
| 27 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 28 | The latest surge in the yen has come at the worst possible time for many Japanese companies , especially exporters . |
| 29 | If Brian Lara 's timing and placement helped to give the West Indies ' innings its early momentum — 81 came off the first 20 overs — Simmons used his massive strength to devastating effect as 102 were plundered off the next 15 overs . |
| 30 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |