Example sentences of "[verb] come [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want to come against the flat slack flesh . |
| 2 | ‘ Want to come on the Grand Canyon with me ? ’ |
| 3 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 4 | Subject to approval by both Houses of the UK Parliament , the measure was expected to come before the 1994 General Synod for formal declaration . |
| 5 | Despite Cannavino 's touting of the wonders of Greenock , the machines are expected to come from the Far East . |
| 6 | A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties . |
| 7 | The Third Force has come into the Christian spectrum , and it is a force to be reckoned with . |
| 8 | Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’ |
| 9 | Now Fergie junior , one of the few real success in United 's so-far disastrous Premier League start , has come through the toughest test any youngster can undergo — pleasing his father . |
| 10 | ‘ Latin America has come through the worst , ’ says OUP 's David Stewart . |
| 11 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 12 | CHEMICALS group Courtaulds has come through the past year with a 3pc profits rise but is far from confident market conditions will be any easier in 1993 . |
| 13 | When a challenge has not , at a certain point in time , been countered by a riposte , then the person who has suffered injury has come under the symbolic power of the challenger . |
| 14 | Yet , like most faiths in the twentieth century , Christianity has come under the hypnotic spell of this modern attitude , and Christians are beguiled into behaving as it demands . |
| 15 | The nearest any western fighting technique has come to the eastern martial arts , is in the French art of ‘ la Savate ’ . |
| 16 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
| 17 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 18 | More recent authority has come to the same conclusion : see Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 per Pearson LJ and Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 per Megaw LJ . |
| 19 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 20 | DECADENCE has come to the Third Rome . |
| 21 | ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said . |
| 22 | ‘ We all feared this might happen and now it has come to the worst , ’ said one church-goer arriving for the service . |
| 23 | A quick dust , to get rid of the cobwebs , and it 's off to the track , adrenalin pumping , because that time has come for the first track workout of the summer . |
| 24 | The time has come for the Prime Minister to stop playing Conservative party politics with the issues and to rise to the real level of the challenges that confront us in Britain , everyone in Europe and , indeed , every inhabitant of the planet . |
| 25 | Explaining , now , more of the past history of Samavia , Lorestan reveals that the Lost Prince has been found , the time has come for the corrupt government to be overthrown and the message must be carried through Europe that ‘ the lamp is lighted ’ . |
| 26 | It has come at the eleventh hour . |
| 27 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 28 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 29 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 30 | The latest surge in the yen has come at the worst possible time for many Japanese companies , especially exporters . |