Example sentences of "[noun] have come [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow . |
| 2 | I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms . |
| 3 | Funding has come from a variety of sources including the Wolfson Foundation and Charitable Trust , the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London , the British Glass Education Trust and private donations . |
| 4 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
| 5 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 6 | The handsome ground rent taken for temporarily housing the national side has come with a built-in penalty clause , too , it would seem . |
| 7 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 8 | Political defeat has come as a profound shock for the ruling Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |
| 9 | Well , the SAAF has come to a conclusion that others have long held — the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota ! |
| 10 | The announcement that Saudi Arabia is to buy 48 of the aircraft has come as a relief to workers at Smiths Industries in Bishops Cleeve , which supplies cockpit displays for the Tornado . |
| 11 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 12 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
| 13 | Even Sir John Stokes , the bristle-brushed old gent for whom ‘ the twentieth century has been a mistake ’ , sat in the Commons representing the Birmingham dormitories of Halesowen and Stourbridge , where the closest most of his supporters had come to a foxhunt was a roadside cocktail lounge called the Whip and Saddle . |
| 14 | Her eyes on where to place her feet , she failed to notice that Travis had come to a halt , and cannoned right into him . |
| 15 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 16 | The carriage had come to a standstill |
| 17 | PC Fishwick said it is likely the ties have come from a shop in the North-East or North Yorkshire . |
| 18 | We are naturally disappointed that substantial catastrophe losses have come at a time when the pace of our underlying recovery is accelerating , but we are confident that the improvement in our performance is soundly based and will continue to show through as strong management action proves increasingly effective . ’ |
| 19 | Aid agencies all over the world have tried to ease their situation , but more immediate help has come from a Hereford farmer . |
| 20 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 21 | This attitude has come as a shock to many in Hollywood who are falling over themselves to sign him . |
| 22 | A CALL for a big shake-up in the structure of the Scottish leagues has come from a shock source . |
| 23 | However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday . |
| 24 | Recently matters had come to a head . |
| 25 | My ritual cataloguing had come to a halt . |
| 26 | The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan . |
| 27 | This issue had come to a head in July , with the tabling of a no-confidence motion in parliament , and the live broadcasting of the July 18-20 debate on national television . |
| 28 | For it had been when Ryan had died , three years ago now , that the situation between her and Jake had come to a head . |
| 29 | The glass firm said all the suspect bottles had come from a new lightweight bottle-making process which had now been halted . |
| 30 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |