Example sentences of "[adv] come to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 2 | The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children . |
| 3 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
| 4 | Some of these effects were immediate ; others will only come to light in time , if at all . |
| 5 | Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day . |
| 6 | According to Morolli : ‘ The seed sown by Lorenzo eventually came to fruition in Rome in the time of his son Giovanni , the future Pope Leo X. Seen in this light , Bramante and Raphael are the products of Florentine taste ’ . |
| 7 | THE great showdown between Barbie and Sindy finally comes to court in January , with Barbie 's manufacturer Mattel claiming that Hasbro Industries has copied Barbie 's face for Sindy . |
| 8 | But the ideals of the purist must always come to grief in the devastating vortex of national politics . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I continue ( while we have it , let's press the advantage home ) , ‘ you know as well as I do that these couplings between the separate spheres always come to grief in the end . ’ |
| 10 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |
| 11 | But another modern man also comes to life in the eighteenth century : the ‘ collective man ’ . |
| 12 | At all times one is aware that the artist is also a composer — the conviction with which she untangles some of the more complicated , almost obscure pieces , has an unquestionable authority ( the enormous B flat minor Fugue from Book Two instantly comes to mind in this connection ) , whilst the famous pieces are often presented in a totally different manner — the A minor Prelude and Fugue ( Book One ) will surprise many as the Prelude is fearful and serious ( rather than light with the usual staccato touches ) , whilst the Fugue has clipped articulation at the end of each subject entry . |
| 13 | Their interest has been titillated by occasional manuscripts said to come from Ivan the Terrible 's library , which have periodically come to light in Moscow . |
| 14 | This work , however , only really came to fruition in Engels 's famous book The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , a book which although written after Marx 's death was extensively based on his notes . |
| 15 | I think my characters could really come to life in a film ’ . |
| 16 | I think my characters could really come to life in a film ’ . |
| 17 | All parties realize this , and so protectionism acts as a bargaining counter for the rich , and a bluff for the poor , and mainly comes to life in its use as a rhetorical device to satisfy domestic constituencies . |
| 18 | Cases frequently come to light in which submissive children have been treated literally like household slaves , often into late middle-age , by domineering parents . |
| 19 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 20 | A preliminary version of ‘ La Danse ’ , a mural painting executed in 1933 by Henri Matisse for the home of Dr Barnes at Merion near Philadelphia ( see p.7 ) has recently come to light in the possessions of the youngest son , art dealer Pierre Matisse . |