Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] come [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 2 | And he wanted all the girls who were interested to come to the great city . |
| 3 | No traders were likely to come to the Hall that day or any other , and she could hardly risk being seen speaking to them even if they did . |
| 4 | We turned over the Bundesliga championships , and then were unlucky to come across an inspired Rangers side , who , but for the odd-bribe or two could have gone all the way . |
| 5 | As a QANTAS flight was due to come through the following day , they hoped that Koepang W/T would be on the air before their arrival at Timor . |
| 6 | This was because the winding up petition was due to come before the court again on 30 July . |
| 7 | The Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill was due to come before the Commons this week , but campaigners predicted it would be blocked by the government once more . |
| 8 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 9 | Who was this coming from a doorway ? |
| 10 | This was a test of how fast the regiment could pack up and move out to its battle positions , and was supposed to come as a big surprise , but Maxim knew how easy it was to predict . |
| 11 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 12 | Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst . |
| 13 | Probably based in Germany , it would have a significant British element and was likely to come under a British commanding officer . |
| 14 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 15 | Whenever he rang up he was welcome to come for a night , or meet them in London and have dinner . |
| 16 | He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ . |
| 17 | Ceauşescu was unwilling to come to the phone and Verdeţ had difficulty controlling the mood inside the cabin . |
| 18 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 19 | It was the sort of thing said about someone who was unable to come into the office or , worse , for disciplinary reasons was prevented from doing so . |
| 20 | Social change , therefore , was unlikely to come from the top and the peasantry were badly educated and impoverished smallholders . |
| 21 | I was pleased to come across an item in Microfile ( November 30 ) about the launch of Teesside Poly 's course on computerised communications using CMCS ( computer-mediated communication systems ) delivery . |
| 22 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |
| 23 | Of course , it was necessary to come to a decision at some point , and to do this the system relied primarily on the acoustic probability scores attached to each labelling . |
| 24 | Having taken into account the facts known to the inspector , the Special Commissioner was entitled to come to the conclusion that the inspector 's opinion was reasonable in the circumstances . |
| 25 | He referred specifically to the point that this concrete path was only " " seven feet long " " , and it seems to me that on the evidence he was entitled to come to the conclusion which he reached on the question of fact , i.e. that in all the circumstances the steps formed part of the building . " |