Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] come [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The impetus for change comes from the Management Charter Initiative ( MCI ) , an employer-led pressure group which hopes eventually to transform all management qualifications into quantifiable ‘ competences ’ .
2 In the most emotional speech of the day , Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Vice-President , appealed for parliament to come to the aid of the Russian minority in the TransDniestr region of Moldova , the scene of bitter fighting in recent months .
3 In the case of Northern Ireland , the pressure for uniformity came from the majority of the electorate who want to be as well treated as British citizens are in England or Scotland .
4 Beccaria 's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment .
5 The appeal for a day of prayer for peace came as the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina grows worse and threatens to spread into other areas of the Balkans and beyond .
6 The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner .
7 The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine .
8 A cry of horror came from the artist when he saw the terrible face in the portrait .
9 Mention a low cost tank and all the issues of new or salvaged glass , glass thickness , and quality of build come to the fore .
10 Came quite deliberately , though as usual Hilda had made plenty of noise coming down the stairs to ensure that her presence was known .
11 They were here in a deserted old house in the middle of nowhere on a black and starless night in one of the more mysterious bits of Scotland , and there was a scrabbling , clawy sort of noise coming from the ceiling above him and this other drunk , stoned man .
12 These variations do not appear to be fully explained by differences in the types of case coming before the courts concerned ( Jones , 1995 : 116 ) .
13 The milk of paradise came from the story of the Old Man of the Mountains , Hassan , who drugged men and sent them forth as assassins .
14 His instinct of dishonesty came to the fore again and he thought a way to get the money would be to take the car which he was allowed to use but not to sell . ’
15 In Wester Ross only 29% of income came from the farm and in North Yorkshire only two of the nineteen farms provided more than 50% of the total taxable income .
16 So , there is no other source of income coming into the household ?
17 League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots .
18 I mean there 's so much of money coming in the house every week
19 Crippled chairs with missing feet and tufts of stuffing coming through the cracks ; dead , useless grandfather clocks with faces but no hands ; embroidered hangings eaten with mould patches that made hunt scenes resemble maps of unknown worlds .
20 In the Senate in the same year 9 per cent of funding came through the parties , 62 per cent from individual contributions and 19 per cent through political action committees .
21 As Carolyn started to read a look of absorption came over the child 's face , and her thumb slotted into her mouth .
22 Their change of mind came after the president 's aides had said that if denied a referendum he would carry out a non-binding plebiscite anyway to settle the power struggle that has paralysed his reform programme .
23 At the same moment , a rush of flame came from the rear , followed by a flock of fire-arrows streaming into the rigging .
24 Jane had heard sounds of violence coming from the Shill 's room on several occasions , and she knew that in early October , shortly before their arrival , Maria had complained to the police after sustaining a broken collar bone when Joseph pushed her through a window .
25 Those links were particularly strengthened when a major test of the management of information which bore on student 's continuity of study came with the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) in 1982 .
26 It must be late , there was an eerie splash of light , a bar across the taps and the edge of the table — the moon had moved to the gap between the two houses opposite , to a position where a finger of light came through the kitchen window .
27 A square of light coming through the open hatch made half-hearted patterns through the ladder and silhouetted the Negro .
28 They had blue cushions on them , but I thought they 'd register better just white , so I glanced round the paper adding carious different coloured touches — light on dark and dark on light — to give the impression of light coming through the leaves .
29 At one and the same instant the audience burst into a thundering shout ; the orchestra pealed forth the strains of the Hallelujah Chorus ; the wheels of the great Ellis engine in Machinery Hall commenced to revolve ; the electric fountains in the lagoon threw their torrents towards the sky ; a flood of water gushed from the McMonnies Lake and rolled back again into the basin ; the thunder of artillery came from the vessels in the lake ; the chimes in Manufacturers Hall and on the German building rang out a merry peal , and overhead , the flags at the top of the poles in front of the platform fell apart and revealed the gilded models of the ships in which Columbus first sailed to American shores .
30 The February early morning was chilly , with a hint of snow to come in the air .
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