Example sentences of "[adv] come [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 2 | Such lèse-majesté could only come from a member of the public . |
| 3 | Carol had written it specially for Nicholson ; he could read some of the special nuances that would mean something to him and no one else , nuances that could only come from a friendship and working relationship spanning fifteen years . |
| 4 | Such a deeply mistaken belief can only come from a citizen of a country with a disciplinarian attitude to politics . |
| 5 | I think one of the most valuable points that emerged from the Felixstowe experience , as far as I was concerned anyway was the fact that with all those people there when we heard their views , erm , it was quite apparent that it was n't the case of local people opposing what the County Council traffic people propose to do , many there were many different and varying interests there and , and we , we could , we can then basically come to a conclusion which satisfied , satisfied I hope most of them , but , we , we , at that meeting among the local people some supporters with some of our road safety and some were very much against them , others were neutral , but it was n't just a question of erm a , a united opposition of what we proposed to do er , and this was very valuable . |
| 6 | I 'd just come to a point . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I could just come in a minute — ’ |
| 8 | It really should not come as a surprise to find Lewis , who continues his professional career tonight against Bradford 's Steve Garber at Hull City Hall , owning up to such an unexpected hobby . |
| 9 | This did not come as a surprise . |
| 10 | Given the importance of this area of Russia in the Civil War and the Polish campaign , the Party 's care for and vigilance over the army does not come as a surprise ; nor does the considerable military presence in 1922 in civilian organizations like the hospital and the automobile workshop . |
| 11 | Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck . |
| 12 | This may not come as a surprise to most of you , but relations between Britain — particularly England — and France are not at their best . |
| 13 | This fact is known to managers and should therefore not come as a surprise each time it arises . |
| 14 | It need not come as a surprise to learn that Wittgenstein is in his own way a foundationalist . |
| 15 | The fact that her husband was having a homosexual relationship does not come as a surprise but it is more difficult for Blanche to accept because he needed help but she caused his death by saying that he ‘ disgusted ’ her . |
| 16 | A spokesman said : ‘ Because of the current economic climate it did not come as a shock . |
| 17 | It seems a pity that the gun does not come with a reflector nozzle ( to work near window panes without cracking the glass , for example ) , but this is only a minor point . |
| 18 | If men trained in the learned profession did not , perhaps , scale such heights in the later sixteenth century , at the same time the crossing of career lines did not come to a halt . |
| 19 | As a consequence , evolution normally does not come to a halt , but constantly ‘ tracks ’ the changing environment . |
| 20 | It does not come for a couple of times . |
| 21 | The bolt of lightning did not come until a week later . |
| 22 | One thing , though , I will not come in a condom . |
| 23 | Unlike the founders of the older firms , Reynolds did not come from a management consultancy background ; after his early financial services work , he spent three years with William H. Clark , a headhunter from the price Waterhouse fold . |
| 24 | It was a very neatly packaged piece of disinformation planted on Pincher that carried added credibility since it did not come from a government source but from an opposition Privy Councillor . |
| 25 | Strictly speaking the extreme ultraviolet light does not come from a laser , but it does retain the coherence of the original . |
| 26 | He did not come from a showbusiness family . |
| 27 | As a Chinese proverb has it , ‘ ivory does not come from a rat 's mouth ’ . |
| 28 | but can not sustain a courtly approach with the articulacy of Wilekin : line 23 , quoted here , could easily come from a prayer to the Virgin Mary , and the clerk soon concludes by a sacrilegious plea in Marian terms : ( " For the love of the mother of heaven , change your mind and hear my plea ! " ) |
| 29 | How many of , erm , did you ever come across a house with only one socket in a living room ? |
| 30 | This summer will now come as a boon to the pressurised Irish representative players . |