Example sentences of "come [adv] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I expect the Scottish Transport Group , before reaching a decision on assistance , to see what it could do to encourage any separate teams to come together to mount a single bid . |
2 | The building blocks have n't come together to form a self-replicating chain like RNA . |
3 | A total of 11 scientific institutions in the UK have come together to form the Tropical Forest Research Group . |
4 | These people — ordinary working-class folk like me — had come together to celebrate a gay relationship and to wish it success and happiness . |
5 | A group of 15 European firms in a range of businesses have come together to create the European Software Institute to improve skills in developing computer software : the Institute , to be based in Bilbao , Spain , will work with customers on software processes and methodology , according to Compagnie des Machines Bull SA vice-president Georges Grunberg , who is the acting chairman ; the other founders are Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa SA , GMD SA , Eritel SA , Finsiel SA and Iberdrola SA from Spain , British Aerospace Plc , the Electricity Supply Board , Lloyd 's Register and Logica Plc , Sema Group Plc , Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , Telecom Ireland , Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA ; each of the founders will pay $118,000 a year for three to five years to fund the Institute , which will have a staff of about 50 ; it hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term . |
6 | A group of 15 European firms in a range of businesses have come together to create the European Software Institute to improve skills in developing computer software . |
7 | They had come together to attend a major seminar on the development of an independent and pluralistic African press , held in Windhoek , Namibia , 29 April — 5 May . |
8 | I am sure you have not come here to satisfy an old man 's whims . ’ |
9 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
10 | They 're especially keen for young men and people from ethnic groups to come forward to add a wider selection of tissue types to the register . |
11 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
12 | At the far end was a place where the backs of four high buildings came together to form a small courtyard . |
13 | The two groups then came together to begin the real business of the day — finding a shared appreciation of the situation in which they were to operate . |
14 | In effect , the two new superpowers came together to crush the great powers of yesteryear ; and the growing voice of Afro-Asia in world affairs was heeded for the first time . |
15 | Artists such as Turner , Cotman and John Martin came here to record the fiery scenes of the ‘ satanic mills ’ whose blast-furnaces belched flames into the sky and seemed to the Romantics something like visions of hell . |
16 | You could n't care less , one way or the other — you just came here to have a little fun at my expense . |
17 | He also points out that a commitment to equality implies also a commitment to a state which will push everybody around until they are equal — Procrustes was a figure in Greek mythology who forced all those he came across to become the same height , either by chopping bits off or by using a rack to stretch their legs . |
18 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
19 | We have about 140 international specialists in human gene mapping coming together to use a new data base system developed at the John Hopkins university in collaboration with people in London at the I C R F Labs and that data base will provide information on all those genes we have already identified and mapped . |
20 | A synergistic effect is defined as two substances coming together to create a greater effect than the sum of the two could achieve separately . |
21 | What was it you said about coming specially to meet the wild man of the wilderness ? |
22 | it 's absolutely wonderful that he 's coming here to launch the National Bowl in May |
23 | All three aspects need to be practised so that they all come together to give the right impression . |
24 | In these meetings , students come together to discuss a defined topic , whose main points are put forward by one of their own number ; the staff members who attend do so not to teach but to play a part in guiding the discussion . |
25 | Roman housewives come here to buy the freshest fruit and vegetables . |