Example sentences of "[conj] come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This can include a reluctance to ask them to visit , or to come for a meal and even the fear , felt by some women , that a grieving woman may attract their own husbands .
2 It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion .
3 Other than luck — winning the football pools or coming into a legacy — there are three main possibilities for providing you with extra money : your home , work and investment skill .
4 The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement .
5 Respect for human rights and minorities and , in particular , respect for those who speak minority languages or come from a minority ethnic group is an important matter .
6 When the loop is complete the model zooms wildly or comes to a stop in a nose high attitude .
7 It came in mid-morning , and brought them all slipping through the branches and the coarse grass to lie hidden on either side the narrowing of the path with their bows strung and their shafts fitted , listening for the soft thudding of hooves that came as a reverberation along the ground rather than a sound .
8 Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell .
9 In the autumn of 1890 Tiller was asked to present a quartet of children at the Prince of Wales Theatre , Liverpool , in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe , subtitled The Good Friday That Came On A Saturday .
10 I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui .
11 Perhaps the dream tie in today 's ‘ hands on ’ publishing world is that brown one from M&S that came in a set with its own matching handkerchief .
12 The autumn design is composed of some brown fern-like leaves that came from a tree at the bottom of my garden , some tiny pieces of Japanese maple , some elderflower buds , gorse flowers , a few tagetes , some hydrangea florets and some ‘ Red Ace ’ potentillas .
13 Only in the years after the Napoleonic Wars was there any threat to this pattern , and that came from a maverick member of the group .
14 PRIORS MESNE , at Aylburton in the Forest of Dean , has an unusual addition to the normal list of potential fixtures and fittings that come with a property for sale — 110 red and fallow deer .
15 For this reason , top management at one computer company is more likely to provide large allocations for ideas that come with a coalition already formed around them .
16 that 's what I said , so that come like a prayer from heaven it did
17 Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead .
18 Broadway risk is only ever justified by the huge rewards that come from a success .
19 And she said and she said thank you she said , Miss Anderson she said she ought to have more sense than come in a thing like that she said to the officers .
20 And sometimes they 've got one that comes on a test run with a camera strapped onto them and you come
21 Frequently the plan of a few words may be the first thing that comes into a student 's head or more ominously the only thing in the student 's head !
22 There does n't seem to be a consistent upward pattern er traffic that comes into a dealers showrooms to buy cars can be up one week , it can be down the next .
23 No news as yet about the Villa game , except that leslie silver was a bit pissed off at losing the stlg75,000 ( I hope you see a pound sign as I do , and not ‘ stlg ’ ) that comes with a sky appearance .
24 The re-bundling of server software may help to change users ' perceptions , but the great white hope is MVS Open Edition , the new version of the operating system that comes with a Posix interface .
25 As Handy puts it ‘ the power that comes as a result of the role or position in the organisation . ’
26 We hope that you will enjoy and benefit from reading the pages that follow , find the satisfaction that comes as a result of learning mathematics and realise one of the main objects of studying mathematics — development of the power of reason .
27 The conventional wisdom of the decade-obsessed art world sees the Basquiat show as a referendum on the 1980s , placing an artist who had been catapulted into stardom by that era 's hype under the closer scrutiny that comes in a time of greater austerity .
28 But not really frightened , buoyed up always by a child 's invincible courage , the courage that comes from a sense of immortality .
29 It is the sort of legislation that comes from a cosmetics salesman .
30 Recovering my composure , if not much dignity , I followed the bird through the trees and came on a female ( which lacks the long plumes and has a chestnut back and tail ) which appeared to be nest-building almost above our heads .
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