Example sentences of "[vb infin] come [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She did n't want to come against the flat slack flesh .
2 He just did not expect to come across the late Norman Britton in the garden of the Ferret and Firkin at half past six in the evening .
3 If I was to have any chance of being posted to Calvi , I would have to come in the top five in basic training .
4 Whoever he finally chose would have to come from the right stable .
5 Teachers , like managers , need to review their attitudes , especially as the majority will themselves have come through the nursing system " which will have shaped their values and behaviour .
6 It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own .
7 It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants .
8 I would myself have come to the same conclusion as that which the deputy judge expressed [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 514 , 528 :
9 I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction .
10 It seems that he would have come to the same conclusion regarding the implication of such control .
11 ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’
12 Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him .
13 He must have come across the low fences that separated the row of back gardens .
14 ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’
15 They may have come from the inner chamber of the tholos tomb known as the Treasury of Atreus .
16 That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) .
17 the other side of th , you know , should have come from the other side .
18 It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes .
19 The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century .
20 It is not perhaps surprising that the source of substitution should have come from the traditional opposition group , the Bani Hashem .
21 In the process of making them , did you meet any opposition apart from that which you said may have come from the medical malpractice fear ?
22 Normally , patients will continue to come to the nursing station for periodic assessment during the first ten days of treatment but already by the second day they attend lectures and individual and group counselling sessions .
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