Example sentences of "come [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how come civil servants have mobile phones in their cars ? |
| 2 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 3 | Out have gone the autumnal shades , in have come bold contrasts of saturated reds and greens . |
| 4 | The wheel had come full circle since the heady days of expansion after the Robbins Report in 1963 . |
| 5 | The movement begun in 1945 had indeed come full circle . |
| 6 | In a way , we 've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do , which is teaching . |
| 7 | We have almost come full circle . |
| 8 | From those early Tudor days the English house had come full circle , but these Edwardian houses were warm , practical and comfortable ; they epitomized countrified romanticism . |
| 9 | But the benefits have come full circle , for the long master chronologies subsequently established for archaeological dating and calibration of radiocarbon results are now of just as much value to climatologists studying cycles in weather patterns associated with factors like sunspot activity and variations in the earth 's orbital parameters . |
| 10 | It had come full circle . |
| 11 | The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle . |
| 12 | Wordsworth felt that the wheel had indeed come full circle or rather , to use his own expression , that France was like a ‘ dog/Returning to his vomit ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 935 ) . |
| 13 | In many ways we 've come full circle : in the early days of lesbian feminism , lesbian theorists demonstrated that anti-lesbianism is the most intense form of woman-hating . |
| 14 | And perhaps , sensing that matters have come full circle , some of that era 's pop idols are returning to host a new generation of adult oriented music shows . |
| 15 | Spookily enough , I had come full circle : I was back working for Alan Lewis , the man who 'd given me my first music press job — as his secretary at Sounds , back in ( gulp ) 1977 . |
| 16 | But we have come full circle : by sliding from discussion of women as wives to a discussion of women as mothers and carers , we are once more caught up in the dilemmas about benefits for children outlined in the previous section . |
| 17 | The wheel has come full circle . |
| 18 | Cross the Bahnhof bridge , and you will have come full circle back to the starting point . |
| 19 | Although her wide-ranging attacks on the public housing-building ‘ industry ’ go further than her data alone would justify , the story of post-war public housing seems to have come full circle . |
| 20 | Thus the wheel has come full circle : the main feature in the design of the primitive sickle is included — much to its advantage — in the latest models of the combine harvester . |
| 21 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |
| 22 | She had come full circle . |
| 23 | The conversation had come full circle . |
| 24 | We have come full circle now . |
| 25 | Tonight she had come full circle — from merely suspecting Luke 's motives to hearing him finally admit them . |
| 26 | This curse will reverberate through the whole play and will not cease in wreaking havoc on the whole of Lear 's family until , with death as a result , ‘ The wheel is come full circle ’ . |
| 27 | The Heart of Wales Line has come full circle ; from prosperity in the early days , via near disasters , to what seems to be a gradual revival of its fortunes today . |
| 28 | By the end of the nineteen fifties life in Orkney had come full circle and like everyone else we had acquired a taste for the material things in life . |
| 29 | We spent Chairman , two and a half hours discussing this matter at that point and we had come full circle back to point 1 . |
| 30 | Since the early days when the entire collection was catalogued in one small book , the role of the Botanic Garden has come full circle . |