Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment .
2 Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan .
3 Employing those conceptions , we can ask how we can know that we have succeeded in referring to anything , and how we can know that we have come up with an accurate description of what we have referred to .
4 The young ( you can see it in their faces ) , the stegosaurus rugged no-hopers , the parrot-crested blankies — they 've come up with an appropriate response to this , which is : nothing .
5 Electro-acoustic technology being one of the main battlegrounds in the acoustic guitar war , respected US makers Guild have come up with an all-new pickup to accompany their all-new range of guitars .
6 Junkers has come up with an ecological alternative to worktops made from tropical hardwoods .
7 Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so .
8 Charles and Elizabeth seem to have come up with an intelligent expedient : they would give the boy two Christian names — the first Frome Titford ever to enjoy this luxury — and he could be called ‘ William Charles ’ after his uncle/godfather and father respectively , though they would actually use the name ‘ Charles ’ in everyday conversation .
9 The city of Budapest has come up with an imaginative solution to the problem of where to put over forty years worth of statues , sculptures and monuments dedicated to the heroes and events of communism .
10 He 's come up with an organic binder which makes it possible to turn the left-over dust into briquettes which burn for two and half hours .
11 Thomson-CSF SA has come up with an undisclosed sum to buy the company as a present for Alsys SA , the company sold to Thomson by Ada only begetter Jean Ichbiah in September 1991 .
12 EFFORTS to improve atomic clocks have come up against an unexpected hurdle .
13 I mean , when we was in opposition , if er , if we had a Westminster crisis in Lincolnshire and it suddenly kicked all the conservatives off , we would have been able to come up with an alternative budget to manage this county .
14 Hence representing revenues from community X by R(X) we can say : The consequence is that the group of three communities would not be willing to go for the scheme involving supply to all three , since they would not be able to come up with an agreed method of sharing the £650 .
15 The banks financing the huge project have given Eurotunnel until the end of the year to come up with an agreed costing for completion of the tunnel sufficient to enable them to release fresh loans .
16 The banks have given Eurotunnel until the end of the year to come up with an agreed costing for completion of the Channel Tunnel .
17 Meetings between the Prime Minister ; Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment ; and Nigel Lawson , Chancellor of the Exchequer , have been unable to come up with an agreed solution to put to today 's Cabinet .
18 The Chancellor had totally failed to come up with an industrial strategy to move Britain out of recession , Mr Brown said .
19 Dawn has been eyeing up her own customers as well as the shoppers who frequent rival stores to come up with an in-vogue verdict on local tastes .
20 With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home .
21 Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . "
22 ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there .
23 Unisys Corp has come out with an enhanced version of its one-year-old Open/OLTP on-line transaction processing environment , which uses Unix System Labs Inc 's Tuxedo TP monitor .
24 Rangers are waiting for Keegan to come back with an improved offer after rejecting a staggering £3.3m bid , and Keegan could offer transfer-listed Franz Carr as the makeweight in a new player-cash deal .
25 I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range .
26 I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range .
27 The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote .
28 Two czarist officers , bulky in their comic-opera uniforms , solemnly played Russian roulette , each downing a drink every time the firing pin of their revolver came down on an empty chamber .
29 The-other four Goshawk aircraft came down in an angled line which allowed each gun to rake the target from nose to tail in a continuous devastation of bullets .
30 Half way through his super-human effort his foot slipped and in mid-launch he came down in an uncoordinated heap just outside the throwing circle .
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