Example sentences of "was come [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 23 the Foreign Ministry confirmed the terms it considered acceptable for an " allied multinational force " to be based in south-eastern Turkey : the force was to come under the joint command of Turkish and US commanders ; its ground element would be based at the US/NATO airfield at Incirlik and its air element at Silopi , with some facilities available at Batman in south-east Turkey ; any intervention against Iraq would need Turkish government approval ; and initial Turkish permission for the presence of the force would expire on Sept. 30 . |
| 2 | In the last game when we lost two players in the same position the last thing I wanted was to come to a quick decision with my brain still buzzing after a training session . |
| 3 | The Company 's management evidently came to the conclusion that the only effective way to avoid the expense of lifting the rails , was to come to a speedy agreement with the L.C.C . |
| 4 | She could get them to broadcast an announcement for her , spread the word around the gallery that Mr James Worsdale was to come to the main entrance . |
| 5 | Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage . |
| 6 | Andy Murdoch 's fine penalty save from Mark Hateley was a bitter pill for the home support to swallow but worse was to come in the 65th minute . |
| 7 | He was to come in the small hours , . |
| 8 | That was bad enough ; but worse yet was to come in the third stage . |
| 9 | It was to come from an unexpected quarter : the environmentalists . |
| 10 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 11 | But the views in winter are rather more spectacular , and although we were starting to feel that snow was coming on the strengthening wind , we at least enjoyed the open sweeping aspect to the south and east as we walked . |
| 12 | The Labour government found itself under pressure from three directions : from the left wing , largely concentrated in the ILP ; from the TUC , which , under the leadership of Citrine and Bevin , was coming to a new view of the causes of unemployment , one based upon the writings of John Maynard Keynes ; and from Sir Oswald Mosley and his supporters . |
| 13 | During the journey we were informed that tomorrow , we were going to go and see the Queen who was coming to the small town to visit the hospital . |
| 14 | While the Feldwebel was talking to the driver of the car , the little soldier who was coming as an additional escort stood by the suitcase . |
| 15 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 16 | A low , scudding cloudbank was coming off the western horizon , purple with unshed rain . |
| 17 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
| 18 | Who said and on which occasion : ‘ In church on Sunday it was lovely , and the sun was coming through the stained glass window and falling on some flowers . |
| 19 | The music was coming from the closed door . |
| 20 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
| 21 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 22 | The lorry , which was coming from the local gravel-pit , drew up , and the Arab driver put out his head : ‘ Where are you going ? ’ he asked in French . |
| 23 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |
| 24 | But she was coming round the next day to have lunch with him . ’ |
| 25 | He was coming inside the English Association with the hope of assuring himself that his own principles were being carried out by it . |