Example sentences of "to come by " in BNC.
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| 1 | While not a complete substitute for manure or compost , it is of particular use to those who find bulky animal manure hard to come by . |
| 2 | Turning to English ( where , he assures us , the quality is much harder to come by ) , he reviews the claims of a Ben Jonson lyric , of George Herbert , Christina Rossetti and LionelJohnson . |
| 3 | Large quantities of organic food were not easy to come by in Surrey . |
| 4 | His own form suffered at home , largely because of the poor standing of Widzew , and with Polish clubs finding success hard to come by in European competitions , the profile of individual players was dropping . |
| 5 | Calm assessments were hard to come by in the shadow of a tragedy of such proportions . |
| 6 | The River Severn at Shrewsbury was frozen solid in places and some anglers found fish hard to come by . |
| 7 | Hepworth justified poaching from literature because of ‘ the advantage of a well-made plot , which was not at all easy to come by in original film scenarios ’ , but what this ignores is the responsibility of producers like him to foster the writing skills which would end British cinema 's reliance on the novel or play , and novelistic or theatrical styles of storytelling . |
| 8 | Foreign exchange is hard to come by for imports into the GDR , and shortages and waiting periods , not so frequent in the West , are normal . |
| 9 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 10 | The contradictions fall into something like a natural order of things , in a flamboyant era when the natural was notalways easy to come by . |
| 11 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 12 | This year , the white-berried twigs with their narrow , leathery leaves are harder to come by and more expensive than ever . |
| 13 | Although the remoteness of the region makes accurate information hard to come by , in 1979 , even before the main expansion of the industry , an estimated 4100 dolphins and porpoises were being killed each year for bait . |
| 14 | Recession is guaranteed for several months to come by higher taxes , higher interest rates and an exchange rate depressed both by a squeeze on the supply of local currency and by a surfeit of dollars from the booming trade in cocaine paste . |
| 15 | The best of today 's Mozart ( not easy to come by ) sacrifices none of his classical elegance , but also contains the robustness and vigour that come from within the music . |
| 16 | The latter offence is an inchoate offence of a familiar kind : possession with intent , in circumstances where an innocent reason for possessing explosives is fairly hard to come by ( unless the defendant is engaged in quarrying or another business in which explosives are used ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I put it to you , ’ some old goat would bleat from under his wig , ‘ that these scheming , unprincipled charlatans , stopping at nothing to come by their ill-gotten gains , forged the very hand of a peer of the realm in a dastardly conspiracy to frustrate the worthy efforts of their local benefactor . ’ |
| 18 | There are not all that many King Charles Spaniels born each year , and consequently puppies are hard to come by . |
| 19 | Cash buyer finds reasonable prices hard to come by |
| 20 | However , ideal situations are hard to come by , and the next best thing is to be able to perceive a horse 's changing emotions — especially if they indicate that we are likely to lose control of the horse in the near future ! |
| 21 | Other testimonials to Dury 's character proved hard to come by . |
| 22 | The expectation is of five to come by 2000 . |
| 23 | Everything was hard to come by at the moment . |
| 24 | Photographs of Handsworth box are not easy to come by , so this view from a passing train , of 02 No. 63734 is particularly welcome . |
| 25 | The new site , because of its dependence on steam , needed regular coal supplies and , as the railway had not by this date reached Bourton , coal supplies had to come by cart from either Adlestrop Station , some six miles away , or Cheltenham , sixteen miles away . |
| 26 | Coal and flour supplies still had to come by cart , the flour deliveries to Cheltenham being transported by a three horse team and covered wagon . |
| 27 | Cash may be hard to come by from firms but time involvement may be much more forthcoming . |
| 28 | Information is now easy to come by ; it should be distributed equally liberally , particularly to those who have a right to know . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , experienced models are hard to come by on most of the Polynesian islands , though it is possible to find a few in Papeete . |
| 30 | Millions of people living on the streets , congestion , pollution yet through it all , caring and a friendship which are not easy to come by even in the richest parts of the Western World . |