Example sentences of "come [prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 2 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |
| 3 | The plastic monsters look like ruling the planet for some time to come with the mammoth film and merchandise promotion that 's going on , selling everything from dinosaur lip balm to brontosaurus burgers . |
| 4 | The plastic monsters look like ruling the planet for some time to come with the mammoth film and merchandise promotion that 's going on , selling everything from dinosaur lip balm to brontosaurus burgers . |
| 5 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 6 | The three sets which have not been to the Joint Committee come under the negative procedure and are consequential upon the main affirmative orders . |
| 7 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 8 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 9 | At first it had seemed he was only there to sit out the war with his French woman , but then the summons had come from the Dutch army and Isabella had known that her husband would follow Sharpe . |
| 10 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 11 | Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship . |
| 12 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 13 | The main differences between the account of the journalist and the sociologist come from the different orientations that each brings to the subject of study . |
| 14 | I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture . |
| 15 | In relation to transfer , about 50 per cent of employment had come from the local area and almost 25 per cent from the region . |
| 16 | A number of test cases on Sunday trading and the possible conflict with the treaty of Rome have already come before the European Court and all have been referred back to the various countries involved . |
| 17 | If some clarity of purpose and coherence of action is to take the place of this drift , the ideas and energy ought to come from the political parties because , in theory , they are supposed to provide the driving force in political development . |
| 18 | The advocates of " Unity " argued , however , that a considerable change had come over the Communist Party and that it had given up its " social fascist " accusations . |
| 19 | I have , however , experienced enough , and spoken to sufficient numbers of experienced psychics , to come to the private conclusion that the psychic is a reality . |
| 20 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 21 | Women are gentler , softer , cleaner , altogether nicer things and I , who always considered myself one of the boys , had come to the surprising conclusion that the companion I Wanted most was a woman . |
| 22 | I had seen the island where time begins , and had come to the sorry realization that the Pacific , the vastest of all oceans , is a far more complicated entity — if indeed it could ever be regarded as such — than it was possible to imagine . |
| 23 | A nice enough chap and he was knowledgeable in theory you see , but when it come to the practical experience and the practical doing of the work , he would just say , Well what did you do the last time Jimmy ? |
| 24 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
| 25 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
| 26 | ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’ |
| 28 | We have come to the clear conclusion that Parliament , in adopting the phrase ‘ office or employment , ’ intended section 16(1) of the Act of 1968 to have a wider impact than one confined to the narrow limits of a contract of service . |
| 29 | In the last section we have come to the interesting conclusion that B may alone exist of all our variables but we reached that conclusion on a magnet shape not much used in practice . |
| 30 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |