Example sentences of "[is] come [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language .
2 The government has said to the European Community that , of the 7.7-percentage-points improvement it hopes to make in the total public-sector deficit between 1992 and 1996 — from 9.6% of GDP to 1.9% — more than half , 4.1 percentage points , is to come from extra taxes .
3 I thought Chairman that er Mr is saying that er they would consider any consult with the Union on some of the statements that have been made and I quite er the item D is in fact necessary that er I I I gave no arguments , it should be given consideration if it is come to that and er it will come back presumably to form a proposition of deal with it then .
4 She added as she reached the bottom of the stairs where Miss Merchiston had arrived to meet her , ‘ I 've told the mistress as how Miss Kyte is come at last , and she said to bring her up straight . ’
5 ‘ The electrician is coming at eight tomorrow morning and we 're going out to dinner late tomorrow night . ’
6 ‘ That other boy who is going to do the hens for me is coming at six for me to show him what to do .
7 Aunt Margaret is coming at ten . ’
8 Erm and this seems to be the whole kind of class of which the government is coming to this this document .
9 Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence said : ‘ Due to increasing legislation , the management of waste is coming under stricter control with pressure being borne directly on waste producers to get their house in order .
10 However , it is noticeable that as the activities at school increase , the caretaker 's holiday entitlement is coming under increasing threat .
11 An important product , Retardmac , is coming under increasing pressure due to the Government 's desire for permanent re-instatement of roads after patching and this does not bode well for the long-term future of the product .
12 But , now it 's in , Britain is coming under increasing pressure to support a single European currency ; this scheme has already raised the hackles of Mrs Thatcher who says that sacrificing the pound will undermine Britain 's right to manage its own economy .
13 A senior mining executive has warned his colleagues that in the wake of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro the mining industry is coming under intense scrutiny over its environmental record .
14 Mr Parkinson is coming under heavy pressure from competing private consortia to approve an alternative route to a new terminus at Stratford in east London , which they say would be cheaper than the British Rail scheme to Waterloo and King 's Cross .
15 THE Cork ‘ 20 ’ Rally , its position in the Dunlop Tarmac championship already believed threatened , is coming under more pressure .
16 But Blackheath administrator Alun Davies said : ‘ The knee is coming on fine but it needs at least another couple of weeks rehabilitation .
17 Apparently she 's got a problem that the oil pollution is coming off this site where they 're refurbishing the boilers .
18 Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper .
19 It follows on from that question , it comes , you 've got a line B Sky B er , you 've got a line B Sky B in the T V er , division so it presumably , that loan interest is coming in that division , is that right , rather than net if off against interest ?
20 Erm and er this is coming in old Ordnance Survey map , coming in past the race course , at .
21 Likewise in ( 84 ) one can not hear a tune " come " from somewhere ( cf. the strangeness of * I heard the tune come from the top of the hill ) : its source of emission can only be identified by a process of deduction which interprets what is directly observed in order to arrive at the conclusion that the sound is coming from such-and-such a point .
22 Many people feel a sense of overwhelming loss , loss of safety and security , perhaps , at the news that is coming from that part of the world , and yet find themselves unable to absorb the import of what is being said .
23 one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations .
24 What we do need to know is er who is coming from each function .
25 All told , some 10-15% of the foreign capital going into China is coming from ASEAN countries .
26 What is needed , is to increase public investment in public transport and there is n't any increased public investment , the increased investment is coming from higher fares and the private sector , and slashed the road building programme .
27 A healthy contribution to company profits is coming from Bonded Developments Ltd. , a subsidiary set up to sell the Bonded Machine Worldwide .
28 But I think it is it could well be counter-productive to put bans on buying tropical timber , particularly blanket bans , on the other hand , I think there 's a lot of case to be , a lot of point in asking people and pressing people to say whether the folk that the timber is coming from sustained yield forest .
29 Funding is coming from Northern Arts , Durham County Council and Wear Valley District Council which has six schools also trying the artist in residence scheme .
30 It does n't matter what you 're up against , who 's being unfair or where the financial and emotional pressure is coming from this week .
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