Example sentences of "[noun] have come [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
| 2 | The wheel has come full circle . |
| 3 | Thus the wheel has come full circle : the main feature in the design of the primitive sickle is included — much to its advantage — in the latest models of the combine harvester . |
| 4 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 5 | The wheel had come full circle since the heady days of expansion after the Robbins Report in 1963 . |
| 6 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 7 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
| 8 | By the end of the nineteen fifties life in Orkney had come full circle and like everyone else we had acquired a taste for the material things in life . |
| 9 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 10 | And perhaps , sensing that matters have come full circle , some of that era 's pop idols are returning to host a new generation of adult oriented music shows . |
| 11 | Even when she passed the two-furlong pole , some five lengths off the leaders , she knew she had them ; but if the post had come ten yards earlier , she would never have got up . |
| 12 | Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau . |
| 13 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |
| 14 | Yet with the new season have come new strains which have opened up a fundamental debate about its future . |
| 15 | From his innovations have come many developments opening the way for similar independently minded choreographers . |
| 16 | The Heart of Wales Line has come full circle ; from prosperity in the early days , via near disasters , to what seems to be a gradual revival of its fortunes today . |
| 17 | Since the early days when the entire collection was catalogued in one small book , the role of the Botanic Garden has come full circle . |
| 18 | She said homeopathy had come full circle now and it was quite the in-thing to be treated by herbal remedies . |
| 19 | The conversation had come full circle . |
| 20 | The soldiers had come five months earlier . |
| 21 | But the benefits have come full circle , for the long master chronologies subsequently established for archaeological dating and calibration of radiocarbon results are now of just as much value to climatologists studying cycles in weather patterns associated with factors like sunspot activity and variations in the earth 's orbital parameters . |
| 22 | A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle . |
| 23 | With the new jobs has come wider ownership . |
| 24 | With the new science and technology had come new weapons of destruction : armoured tanks , steel submarines and warships , aerial warfare , bombs , machine guns and the huge infantry field-cannons . |
| 25 | From those early Tudor days the English house had come full circle , but these Edwardian houses were warm , practical and comfortable ; they epitomized countrified romanticism . |