Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rejoicing was shared particularly by WACC 's members and colleagues in Central America , although news has since come through that the Guatemalan government is responding to Ms Menchu 's Peace Prize with a renewed crackdown against the popular democratic movement . |
| 2 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 3 | Fears of a revival of the Cultural Revolution were borne out in some local areas where over-zealous and ‘ leftist ’ oriented cadres interpreted the words of the Party directives too literally , trying to eliminate anything new which had come about since the open-door policy was introduced . |
| 4 | The most rapid decline in employment among elderly people has come about since the Second World War , with the proportion of men over 65 in employment falling from 30 per cent to 10 per cent between 1951 and 1981 , although , because of a rise in married women 's employment , the proportion of the female population over 60 in employment was about the same in 1981 ( 8 per cent ) as in 1951 . |
| 5 | My father and Diggs came along after the young man passed word along the line of people beating their way along the dunes , but I did n't take any notice of those two , either . |
| 6 | If if a major proposal came along and the local authority wan district wanted to grasp it with both hands they could use the er existing erm development plan process to do so . |
| 7 | The mischievous side of the bright-eyed youngster 's character certainly came through when the English Opera Group recorded an LP of the production ; he munched nuts , not realizing that the microphones were picking up every tiny sound . |
| 8 | A frightening and under-hand piece of work that must be addressed , since a whole new generation of Pop kids are now getting into ‘ the bobby socks and engine-stripping { Weltsschmertz } of Grease — a musical that came out before The Manic Street Preachers were born . |
| 9 | One evening the stars came out and the whole sky shone as clear as polished jet . |
| 10 | This came about because the general feeling in the European capitals was that France was a victim of Prussian provocation and that the candidature should be withdrawn . |
| 11 | It all came about when the eleventh hole was accidentally built nearly twenty metres closer to the house than intended . |
| 12 | I felt a migraine coming on as the old girl began to wail and Zylpha screamed a torrent of abuse . |
| 13 | The clubhead is changing from going up to coming down and the resultant force is so great that the wrists break more fully … if you 're relaxed . |
| 14 | The exchange rate , which in a market situation would fall , can not come down because the whole dedication of Government policy is to keep the exchange rate at an unreasonable level . |
| 15 | In particular , how does it come about that the imprecise quantum world yields a precise answer when it is experimentally interrogated ? |
| 16 | Erm all I can say is the county council economic development people are are there on the ground with their helicopters and the cameras when Kimberley Clarke comes in or the Central Science Laboratory and the car people and so on of the moment . |
| 17 | But who comes through as the fourth semi-finalist is much more complicated . |
| 18 | Pellet formation takes place in the stomach , and it comes about because the small size of the pyloric opening connecting the stomach to the rest of the digestive tract and its high placement prevent the passage of larger particles into the intestines ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |