Example sentences of "that [pers pn] comes " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says .
2 In very high winds it is usually better to deliberately let the glider swing into wind so that it comes to a stop facing directly into wind .
3 Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’
4 The irony of Mr Skinner 's re-regulation of the airline industry , say Wall Street analysts , is that it comes after the shake-out among domestic carriers has taken place and serves only to reinforce the advantages enjoyed by the surviving majors .
5 Stone seems to think that feminist history would insist on an active campaigning role for women , and this unfortunately causes him also to dismiss the significance of gender as a category for historical analysis on the grounds that it comes with too much ‘ ideological baggage ’ ( p. 12 , n. 19 ) .
6 It says something for the delicacy of the proposal that it comes not from the Japanese government , but from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party .
7 For a painter in the 1990s to attempt this sort of transcendent landscape is rather startling , and , frankly , I am not at all sure that it comes off .
8 The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century .
9 ‘ I have to believe that it comes from angels , or spirit beings . ’
10 These are both recommendable performances : the Monte-Carlo orchestra , in particular , is on top form , and plays this familiar music for all its worth , so that it comes up as fresh as it must have sounded in St. Petersburg a century ago .
11 For instance , in the Finale Paray drives the music very hard from start to finish , with the result that it comes over as something genuinely exciting as well as grand and loud .
12 We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage .
13 For some reason or other a believer gets into his head such a wrong idea of God that it comes between him and God or between him and his trusting God .
14 Again very light ‘ rock ’ this time with smoother edges , and natural in the sense that it comes from Icelandic lava flows .
15 Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both .
16 Yet it is at this point that it comes into sharpest conflict with the cultural and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes .
17 ‘ Conveyance ’ can be proved by describing the thing concerned and in cases of difficulty by showing that it comes within the definition of a conveyance as shown as B ( 3 ) ante .
18 Always pick a flower on the very day that it comes into full bloom , because the process of ageing takes place very rapidly in flowers , and pressing does not rejuvenate them , but only halts the ageing process at the moment of pressing .
19 But worse is that it comes at the very moment Davies and Jeff Young , the WRU technical director , and forward-looking others have put into place a representative structure designed to facilitate the flow of full international candidates .
20 You should also call the dog to you when you are wearing the slippers and , assuming that it comes readily to you , make a fuss of it .
21 Add a length of plastic pipe over the top of the funnel so that it comes up to the top of the bottle .
22 It is only through feminist psychology 's attention to work like Ladner 's Afrocentric sociology , that it comes to consider specific features of black girls ' socialization in their families and communities ( Williams 1979 ) .
23 Most importantly , Rita , just as she makes her own diagnosis , knows — unlike the professionals — exactly what the ‘ shock ’ is and that it comes from somewhere :
24 In defence of Maxim 's interpretation , it should be said that it comes closer than usual to the notated metronome marks .
25 Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 .
26 No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events .
27 Again , the main technique is of modifying the structure of the face-to-face interview so that it comes to resemble , in certain respects , a conversation .
28 Some stars will become so small that their gravitational fields will bend light to that point that it comes back toward the star .
29 Both these words were used in medieval times ; and we can understand the word knacker as an equivalent for harness-maker when we learn that it comes from an Icelandic root , knakkr , meaning a saddle .
30 If you make the right noises about the wine — it 's on the cards that it comes from the proprietor 's own vineyard — you 're likely to find another bottle on the table gratis … .
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