Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago more than three quarters of Imperial 's total income came directly from government in the form of a grant . |
| 2 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
| 3 | If any wonder whether they made the right decision to come home and marry a British man , Dolly Howard who danced round the world had the wittiest appreciation of the difference between the continental men and the boys back home : |
| 4 | The awful change came suddenly . |
| 5 | Attempts to survey political opinions came rather later , though they did have not dissimilar aspirations to those of the market surveyors ; however , they were rather less well conducted . |
| 6 | And its panoramic views come comparatively cheap . |
| 7 | Herbs distributed about the garden mixed in with the general plantings will often supply that " surprise " quality that the old garden-landscape designers insisted on , as an aroma wafts through the air on a hot sunny day , or when a plant is brushed accidentally so that a spicy smell comes apparently out of nowhere . |
| 8 | It is also important for the City to ensure that the central bank and monetary institution come here . |
| 9 | Ray Packwood 's pet bull mastiff Bess is used to strange animals coming home with her master so Caspar the Kinkajou was made to feel very welcome . |
| 10 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 11 | I know some of the potential problems with microchip circuitry , and that high reliability comes very expensive . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , as British buy-outs come firmly into vogue , they raise the same question that early American ones did . |
| 13 | Propane-rich fuels come mainly from oil extraction and refining , and can be burnt either in spark-ignition motors or dual-fuel units . |
| 14 | My Queen , there is a gale and a high tide coming together , and the general view is that the women and children might be better off up in the hill-houses . ’ |
| 15 | As an experienced head of the educational system in Vitebsk pointed out in 1832 , it was " extremely difficult to persuade capable and reliable Russians to come here , even to take important posts " . |
| 16 | After they had eaten a Royal Marine accordionist came ashore , song sheets were handed out , and the night air rang to the sound of Boy Scout songs and sea shanties . |
| 17 | Linguistic and sexual terminology come together most often in the context of the Saussurian theorization of binary opposition , illustrated by an excerpt from a paper given at a conference on linguistics : |
| 18 | Erm , but at the trot , when th the the legs are moving the diagonals are moving so of course the front and the hind foot come very close together |
| 19 | This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill . |
| 20 | Ideas which had already been darkly germinating in Ludens 's overcrowded mind came vividly into view . |
| 21 | For an hour and a half no German aircraft came near . |
| 22 | Be seeing a pigging card come now , now I 've split them up . |
| 23 | The old priest came steadily up after him ; his car , small and dusty , parked under their thatched shade . |
| 24 | The builder , of Pretoria Road , Patchway , said seconds earlier he saw a brown car coming fast through the lights and shouted a warning . |
| 25 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 26 | If the inland waterways came even close to being a nation-serving system , this was more a matter of outcome rather than of preconception . |
| 27 | ‘ The old lady comes here too sometimes , but I have to bring the chair through the back . |
| 28 | From March the best of British Broadcasting comes together in pastures new . |
| 29 | But in relative terms there can be no doubt that British broadcasting comes close to the Public Service Ideal while the British press comes nowhere near it . |
| 30 | It is in this period that English and French work come closest together . |