Example sentences of "[vb mod] come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had enough sense to realise that this was one argument that ought to come to a stop right now . |
| 2 | Diana , and then we ought to come to a decision . |
| 3 | For only £500 a week all inclusive , I 'll show you how to put on walking boots , where the zip on your kagoul can be located , how to prepare a salami sandwich , and what to do if you should come across a gate . |
| 4 | It was hoped that Japan could re-establish herself to some extent in the islands of Habomai and Shikotan while the Kurils should come under a UN mandate . |
| 5 | Perhaps not the literal truth ( it is unlikely that Jane Eyre , the unloved orphan , should come into a fortune and gain mastery over Rochester who was once her master or that Pip should be ‘ raised from his station ’ by a mysterious benefactor , who turns out to be Magwitch , the convict he once fed ) , but what Henry James called ‘ the truth of the imagination ’ . |
| 6 | Using a fishing snap-link on the end of the flying line , hook it onto the bridle ( commercial kites should come with a ring on the bridle ) and suspend the kite upside down . |
| 7 | So it 's six hundred , plus about half , which comes to a about nine hundred , should come to a bit less than nine hundred , and it does , so that 's almost certainly |
| 8 | ‘ If all the charities followed the Wolfson 's example , medical research should come to a standstill . ’ |
| 9 | If convincing contrary evidence is presented within that period , they should come to a settlement with the buyer . |
| 10 | So it should come to a little bit more than that one , should n't it ? |
| 11 | Our proposals were that SERPS should be abolished and that the second pension should come from a variety of new options in the private sector which we would make available . |
| 12 | The rule 's important , but it should come from a need of the child rather than be imposed at some arbitrary time when the teacher thinks that all the children are ready for that rule . |
| 13 | But the department spokesman said the money should come from a community care grant to local authorities for the mentally ill . |
| 14 | ‘ Borrowers can pay more when rates move up , but they must come to a branch to make a specific request to do so . ’ |
| 15 | Schlieffen was dead by 1914 ( his dying words are reported to have been , ‘ It must come to a fight . |
| 16 | The information collected will be diverse and complex , and the assessor must come to a view as to the relative importance of different pieces of information and prioritize the information into a manageable , but valid , summary . |
| 17 | ‘ I know it must come as a shock to you . |
| 18 | Secondly , any changes that come to the primary schools must come as a result of changes at the secondary level . |
| 19 | In the light of the Boipatong massacre and now the shootings in Bisho in the Ciskei it must be clear to the International Board that a political solution must come before a rugby solution . |
| 20 | To be a suitable physical means of exchange , money must be light enough to carry around , must come in a number of denominations , large and small , and must not be easy to forge ( see Box 16.3 ) . |
| 21 | This kind of shine , you felt , must come from a renunciation , not necessarily religious , of the world … ’ |
| 22 | The traditional rituals of port drinking are well-known , but it may came as a surprise to many that it is not the crusty British lawyer savouring his even crustier port that constitutes the core market for port shippers , but the trendy young Frenchman , enjoying young ruby . |
| 23 | But pragmatism also allows progress to be made where a more analytic approach might come to a halt , faced with some intractable epistemological obstacle . |
| 24 | This , it was suggested , could lead to a situation of ‘ dual power ’ , which might come to a head over the ‘ nationalisation ’ of some foreign-owned factory which would be ‘ occupied ’ on behalf of the Irish nation . |
| 25 | As for the circumstances in which an auditor might come under a duty to report , the banking act as well as the financial services act and the insurance companies act , uses , use the phrase in his capacity as auditor , here again we have no powers to clarify this on the face of the regulations . |
| 26 | But the scale of the increase might come as a surprise : on the 21-week agreement 10p a week extra pushing up the rate of charge from 26. 1 per cent to 72.5 per cent for example , or on the 15-week agreement 1 p a week extra almost doubling the rate . |
| 27 | And this might come as a surprise to our brethren in the popular national press — Thirty-eight . |
| 28 | We are more or less aware of all this , even though it might come as a surprise to most viewers to discover how far news material is already being treated prior to transmission . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , this might come as a surprise to you , but I felt safer here than down there . |
| 30 | It might come as a surprise to find that the Kalkadoons would use two different words in these circumstances — a kili in fabric but a ndia in the ground . |