Example sentences of "[noun] come to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 2 | Des O'Grady had the honour when he and Kyle came to the 6th . |
| 3 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 4 | Parental care is often carried out for many weeks with no harm coming to the young , but you occasionally get a pair that are very prolific and , in their need to spawn they will often eat their previous brood . |
| 5 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |
| 6 | The next thing is that when the vote comes to the General Secretary for the union , anyone who 's been out of the particular industry for longer than eighteen months wo n't be able to vote . |
| 7 | Leonora Buckmaster came to the front doorway as the Daimler pulled up . |
| 8 | A recent cityscape by Kitaj was bought by one of a party of twenty-five members of the Tate Gallery 's Patrons of New Art , virtually the only British visitors to come to the fair . |
| 9 | Self-government and independence came to the British colonial territories in Africa in the late 'fifties and early 'sixties — with them all the internal pressures towards reshaping a school system and its curriculum towards new national goals and aspirations . |
| 10 | Jane Melvin came to the New Inn at Pembridge in Herefordshire in 1984 , and turned it into one of the most popular country pubs in the county . |
| 11 | Many of the current members joined up after catching one of the club 's many demonstrations , or parents came to the Royal Commonwealth Pool to see what their kids were actually up to — and stayed . |
| 12 | A health issue comes to the fore Sunday . |
| 13 | A boy comes to the same house the next day and because one arm is injured , they think he must be the robber . |
| 14 | Nelson argues that the failure of other reviewers to come to the same conclusion was because they used vague definitions of depression and failed to take into account the severity of the disorder . |
| 15 | And you 're most likely , here not just for communion but because it 's your custom to come to the six thirty service . |
| 16 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 17 | Willis came to the front door dressed only in a pair of trousers . |
| 18 | The bream came to the lone anglers swim first and he blanked too . |
| 19 | During the spring the recommendations of the Top Salaries Review Board and the Doctors and Dentists Review Body came to the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | I I listened to Mr speech with some incredulity I must say , but I did listen to what he said and if what he said is true then I I find some of the things disturbing and and er I 'd like to see his figures and I I w I I that there have certainly been er two messages coming to the social services committee in in in that case . |
| 21 | Other analysts may well develop different ways of making the connection ; however , no matter how close the systems ideas come to the real-world activities , it will always be necessary to temper those ideas with a firm grasp of the practical effects of any changes . |
| 22 | Use the erm , they they invited the Chislehurst May Queen , dan maypole dancers to come to the next open evening . |
| 23 | In my judgment , both Potts J. and Phillips J. came to the right conclusions for the right reasons . |
| 24 | Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron . |
| 25 | The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail . |
| 26 | At that precise moment , Delaney came to the same conclusion as Nell . |
| 27 | Both the vet and the keeper came to the same conclusion — that Sam had eaten something that did n't agree with him , as he had n't eaten much of his food from the day before . |
| 28 | capacity at Luton to buy themselves three years extra planning time and therefore very concerned that there should be no undue delay in the er authorities coming to the appropriate decisions on the planning . |
| 29 | It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda . |
| 30 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |