Example sentences of "comes [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition is thus established and the second-ranker comes effectively to prevent those of lower status from grooming the female above her . |
| 2 | In fact it comes remarkably close to a conceptualisation of Susan Brownmiller 's famous assertion that ’ Rape is a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear . ’ |
| 3 | An early observer was amused to notice that certain shore-nesting birds took great care about the way they performed their imitation death throes : ‘ The end comes slowly , surely , a miserable flurry and scraping , the dying stilt , however , even in articulo mortis , contriving to avoid inconvenient stones , upon which decently to expire . ’ |
| 4 | The effort continues but change comes slowly . |
| 5 | I was going to say that , that , John 's point about evolution , it comes slowly because |
| 6 | But change only comes slowly . |
| 7 | The codes are fairly learnable , although the skill to make the best of them comes slowly . |
| 8 | When the light comes on at precisely the same time each night and the curtains are n't drawn , it 's clear the house is empty . |
| 9 | ‘ When the pressure comes on , players revert to bad habits , ’ Ryan said . |
| 10 | No light comes on . |
| 11 | ‘ Error ’ here refers to the failure to respond to a warning light that comes on when a signal at red is passed . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the old Chancery practice which compelled B to go through the whole of A's story and give an answer upon oath to everything said in it has disappeared ; the evidence in the ordinary course is given viva voce in court when the trial comes on . |
| 13 | When Breathless first comes on to Tracy , her dialogue is hip and sassy ‘ What does a girl have to do to get to know you better ? |
| 14 | When Breathless first comes on to Dick Tracy , her dialogue is hip and sassy . |
| 15 | ‘ When the Prime Minister comes on , ’ he says , ‘ ask him tough questions . |
| 16 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
| 17 | A man comes on to the terrace while I 'm eating breakfast . |
| 18 | On ascent to altitude after diving at sea level , the display automatically comes on , warning of DCS risks . |
| 19 | Imagine the front hand on the mast is holding the hinge and the other ( back ) hand is placed on the boom level with the shoulder — as the imaginary door is closed , the power comes on . |
| 20 | Also , at the end of the turn when the boom is grasped , unless you are low you will be pulled straight over as the power comes on . |
| 21 | Especially when the rash does not come out or is suppressed and a stuporose state comes on ; stinging pains ; high pitched cry ; scanty urine ; swellings and effusions . |
| 22 | In diarrhoea which comes on when there are hot days and cold nights and the nature of the stools keeps changing ( like Pulsatilla ) Infant diarrhoea may be like this . |
| 23 | It sometimes comes on in the open air . |
| 24 | Often it is better ( > ) for eating and comes on if they miss a meal ; headache with hunger . |
| 25 | Tendency to suppuration ; it comes on rapidly with burning and stinging ( like in |
| 26 | A warm room makes the coryza worse ( < ) before the fever comes on ; after the fever they must have heat . |
| 27 | Pneumonia or pleurisy with sharp , stitching pains in the chest , much fever , aching bones , restlessness and generally better ( > ) motion but prostration comes on , marked thirst and fever . |
| 28 | First there appears a roughness and dryness of the mucous membranes , sneezing and croup comes on before midnight with a dry , hoarse , barking cough , like a saw being driven through a plank of wood , and dry air passages . |
| 29 | Where constipation comes on suddenly , or there is blood in the stools , always ask for medical advice . |
| 30 | It 's a cold , wet night all the way down the West coast , but as we round the Lizard , about 7:00 in , it comes on to blow hard and there 's quite a storm up the Channel until the serene sounds of Dungeness ( at 9:40 ) leading to the mysterious aleatoricism of South Foreland . |