Example sentences of "come [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And as the last shots were being fired , the Syrian tank came to rest outside the very door of the building which housed Lebanon 's ‘ democratic ’ parliament . |
| 32 | Then he kicked and came to rest against the far wall . |
| 33 | With some telepathy at work , his questing glance came to rest in the exact square of window in which her face appeared . |
| 34 | it came to rest in the soft ground 100 yards on . |
| 35 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 36 | ( He goes on to describe how swans came to settle in the public lakes of the city . ) |
| 37 | In 1955 a solitary bottlenose dolphin came to live in the remote Hokianga Harbour in Northland , New Zealand , and was soon to cause a sensation . |
| 38 | Telecommunications policy became more controversial in the 1980S as it came to feature on the political agendas of each nation and of Europe , or Europes . |
| 39 | Legend held that once a year an angel came to dance on the highest peak . |
| 40 | But in time Christian people came to ask after the fundamental values of Christianity ; such that slavery then became an impossibility . |
| 41 | Later , Valencia came to dominate as the major lustreware centre . |
| 42 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 43 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request . |
| 44 | It was the first in a series of brutal references to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ which Hitler came to make during the following years . |
| 45 | Returning briefly to Dublin , she next went to Rome and Athens to do more studying before coming to work in the British Museum , and going to live in Knutsford , Cheshire , where she did her greatest work , the bust of Archbishop Alexander , Primate of All Ireland , which stands today in Armagh Cathedral . |
| 46 | By the 1930s the United States was coming to look like the rising star of the literary tradition , whether in poetry , drama , fiction or critical debate . |
| 47 | Should we not be suspicious of postmodern critiques of the ‘ subject ’ when they surface at a historical moment when many subjugated people feel themselves coming to voice for the first time … . |
| 48 | In order to establish the appropriate conditioned responses ( or expectancies ) during the first stage of training , the subjects would have to attend to and discriminate those features that distinguish A from C and those that distinguish B from C. Any plausible mechanism capable of allowing a subject to do this would also endow the subject with an enhanced ability to discriminate between A and B because it would involve the animal in coming to respond to the distinctive features of each of the three stimuli . |
| 49 | It 's er gon na be with us a fortnight tomorrow is n't it really , and I wonder if you 've got people coming to stay over the festive season , and I wonder if you 're looking forward to it ? |
| 50 | This at a time when the book clubs are coming to trade in the high street . |
| 51 | They then show how these discriminatory procedures could come to function as the semantic anchoring of our lexicon . |
| 52 | Later we shall come to look at the practical areas where conflict is most often experienced and what can be done about it . |
| 53 | It is only when one supposes that , as well as such ideas , there is either ‘ extension in abstract ’ or extended , external , material things which might have parts we can not perceive , that one might come to believe in the infinite divisibility of finite extension . |
| 54 | but erm , sorry the reason I 'm raising my eyebrows is that the people who would come to live in the new settlement if it was to happen , are people who would otherwise have to live somewhere else in in the county |
| 55 | Never train with heavily padded mitts or you will come to rely upon the extra cushioning effect which is not there with the competition version . |
| 56 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 57 | An increasing number of them come to work with the general practitioners in the Conceicao programme for up to one month on a voluntary basis during their holidays . |
| 58 | And no obvious reason exists why meat , so long a symbol of human hegemony , should not , in time , come to stand for the unacceptable face of consumerism . |
| 59 | Often parents bring their children with them when they come to visit for the first time . |
| 60 | look at the money for a moment because if you look , when we come to look at the financial commentary , we will be going down the erm er what we spent our training budget on |