Example sentences of "[vb -s] come [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The old spelling is to continue to be ‘ tolerated ’ until the new version has come into general use .
2 Planning a complete package of care This rather ugly term ‘ package of care ’ has come into general welfare use to describe what is often a complex solution to a client 's need for services .
3 ‘ Mental handicap ’ is the term that has come into general usage to describe a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind .
4 The word ‘ carer ’ has come into common usage in the past ten years or so , but it has been used imprecisely .
5 What progress we have enjoyed has come about either as a result of skilled , painstaking experimental work or inspired guesses about how the brain works .
6 I think it is fair to say that this act has come about more as a result of the conduct of estate agents in the South .
7 NEC has come across similar problems is Novosibirsk .
8 With 20 years experience in the retail business , she has come across all sorts of shoplifters , from down and outs to light-fingered public schoolgirls , and despises them all .
9 In the course of gathering material on Dark Age Cumbria she has come across marvellous stories in medieval languages and has published three novels based on them .
10 And it 's such a bubbly one that even the normally brash and loud dandy from Darlington has come over all bashful .
11 Scientists at British Biotechnology in Oxford are pinning their hopes on this second stage of trials of P24 VLP ; the Aids drug has come through first stage trials in London aimed at finding out whether it has any adverse effects .
12 Thirty years later my volunteering instinct has come through intact but I still mistrust the American Air Force .
13 that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves .
14 This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) .
15 CHINA 'S ousted Communist Party leader , Zhao Ziyang , has come under renewed attack in the official media , amid hints of a power struggle in the Chinese leadership .
16 Mr Hawke 's handling of the dispute has come under increasing fire from business , unions and the press .
17 At this price it has come under increasing pressure from the Commodore Amiga , which starts at the same price and attracts similar discounts .
18 The cost and efficiency of the health care system has come under increasing scrutiny and a variety of solutions have been proposed which have implications for inter-professional relations .
19 Explain why the Keynesian model has come under increasing attack in recent years .
20 This emphasis on an ‘ English ’ tradition has come under continuous attack during the last twenty years or so ; during their undergraduate training many young teachers of English will have discussed the assumptions that underlie such concern for our cultural heritage .
21 However , it was based upon the Rasch model , which , as we shall see later , has come under substantial criticism .
22 President Bush has come under congressional pressure to step up the sanctions .
23 Friends of Morton said : ‘ We are convinced the princess has come under unbelievable pressure to issue this statement .
24 This so-called ‘ full extent normal rule ’ has come under considerable criticism from the Court of Appeal downwards .
25 This so-called ‘ full extent normal rule ’ has come under considerable criticism from the Court of Appeal downwards .
26 This so-called ‘ full extent normal rule ’ has come under considerable criticism from the Court of Appeal downwards .
27 The world of analytical measurement has come under severe pressure recently , noted Worswick .
28 But , although Marxists have been able to refute empiricist critiques of their theories by these methods , it has been the case that the original theory has come under severe strain , and this is one reason for the development of the modern structuralist approaches .
29 This interpretation has come under severe attack from Marxists and non-Marxists in the 1970s .
30 The south east of England has come under exceptional pressure from new housing proposals .
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