Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
2 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
3 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
4 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
5 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
6 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
7 | It had not been hard to persuade Brian to come up with the fees for university . |
8 | However , its subsidiary , Barclays Direct Mortgage Services , was able to come up with the sums in a matter of days . |
9 | So , for example , when I ask a group of students at the beginning of an interdisciplinary course in women 's writing and the visual arts , to come up with the names of any contemporary women artists , they can rarely mention more than one or two . |
10 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
11 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
12 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
13 | These men had come out of the tubes of a submarine , probably a Delta class . |
14 | However , none of us should forget the relief of misery and the ending of conflict which have come about through the changes in Ethiopia , in Angola and in Cambodia , and we should not forget the changes in Vietnam , in Mozambique and in the western Sahara . |
15 | Thousands of ethnic Serbs came on to the streets in their support . |
16 | his feet came down to the knees on it |
17 | The vicar ‘ came down to the steps at the top of the nave , accompanied by a server with a basket of palms and we all went up and got one except J[ack] . ’ |
18 | It was still warm during the day , and the sun came in over the trees of the forest outside the camp . |
19 | The model came in with the cups of tea , still glowering darkly at Paula from beneath her fringe of false eyelashes . |
20 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1958 After flirting with failure , the Swedes came through to the finals with a point to spare after a 2-0 victory in Poland in their last qualifying game . |
21 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
22 | It was a day of mixed emotions for a player who came up through the ranks at Ayresome Park . |
23 | Many of today 's athletic superstars , such as Linford Christie , Colin Jackson , Roger Black , Sally Gunnell and Liz McColgan came up through the ranks of schools athletics . |
24 | The inspector was standing in a public place at the time , and of course this message came up over the radios of all police officers on the Division … |
25 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
26 | Of course , once we got into government a great many of our ambitions and aims and the ideas we 'd seized hold of from talking to the Americans , people like Robert McNamara for instance , of the American Department of Defense , came up against the realities of Whitehall . |
27 | Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray . |
28 | Then I came back to the courts at Bisham again before going back to school again at 3pm for history and then I come back and play again afterwards . |
29 | Then they came back to the families in batches , sometimes several hundred at a time . |
30 | In summing up what they learned from their primary and middle school case studies , Briault and West ( 1990:99 ) came back to the purposes of good management : The objective of management , in whatever sphere , is to improve the product and to meet the customer 's requirements . |