Example sentences of "[noun sg] come to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | A health issue comes to the fore Sunday . |
6 | A boy comes to the same house the next day and because one arm is injured , they think he must be the robber . |
7 | And you 're most likely , here not just for communion but because it 's your custom to come to the six thirty service . |
8 | During the spring the recommendations of the Top Salaries Review Board and the Doctors and Dentists Review Body came to the Prime Minister . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Thus , both the Fisher and Cambridge versions of the quantity theory come to the same important conclusion : that an increase in the money supply leads directly to an increase in spending and , with full employment , the general price level is proportional to the quantity of money in circulation . |
14 | Along a short passage , the visitor came to the locked theatre door ( the same door whose creaking had sometimes disturbed Coleman in his introductory lectures , when old students who had come to pay their respects , arrived after he had begun ) . |
15 | Now the woman came to the third cave , where lived the great bee . |
16 | The Crown Prince was just six years old when his father came to the Imperial Throne , and from that moment on all communication — even the most personal — between himself and the Kaiser took place through the formal intermediary of the Chief of the Military Cabinet . |
17 | that refusal of the creditor 's claim comes to the same thing as the extinction of the debt ? |
18 | It was some relief to come to the Bolivian town of Copacabana with its huge white cathedral . |
19 | And the storm went on and on and on ; when finally relief came to the exhausted crews , it seemed the only recourse was to turn tail and head for home . |
20 | The commonplace accusations of medieval anti- feminism came to the Middle Ages as an ecclesiastical tradition . |
21 | Sleep came to the distant noise of a ship 's siren , blown once , but echoing , a long way off . |
22 | ‘ Success comes to the common man , and even to commonplace ability ; but to triumph over the calamities and terrors of mortal life is the part of a great man only . |
23 | Pop music comes to the hallowed chamber . |
24 | He 's made reference , in his mov motion , to a report coming to the next property services sub-committee , and I recognise that report as referred to in nine two of these minutes of budget review sub-committee . |
25 | a small town murder mystery comes to the small screen . |
26 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
27 | Following by instinct , following the trail of mind and memory that he had left , she had surely and with great purpose come to the final place of Harry 's death |
28 | Rakhmanov appealed on Nov. 21 to leaders of armed factions in the country to come to the Supreme Soviet . |
29 | In Oxford , particular care has been taken to try to identify all cases of self-injury coming to the general hospital , irrespective of whether they have been referred to the hospital psychiatric service . |