Example sentences of "[noun] have come [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest any western fighting technique has come to the eastern martial arts , is in the French art of ‘ la Savate ’ . |
| 2 | Much of his new support has come from the left , however . |
| 3 | Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ . |
| 4 | But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow . |
| 5 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
| 6 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 7 | The handsome ground rent taken for temporarily housing the national side has come with a built-in penalty clause , too , it would seem . |
| 8 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 9 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 10 | Political defeat has come as a profound shock for the ruling Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |
| 11 | Similar support for a modified accelerator theory as a determinant of investment has come from the recent studies of Catinat ( 1991 ) and Ford and Poret ( 1990 ) . |
| 12 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 13 | The Third Force has come into the Christian spectrum , and it is a force to be reckoned with . |
| 14 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
| 15 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 16 | It is undeniable that a great deal of important and fundamental research has come from the several centres of excellence in the USA . |
| 17 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 18 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 19 | I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture . |
| 20 | Since 1950 my influences have come from the Flemish Primitives , Frances de la Tour and Stanley Spencer . |
| 21 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 22 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 23 | DECADENCE has come to the Third Rome . |
| 24 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
| 25 | The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan . |
| 26 | The glass firm said all the suspect bottles had come from a new lightweight bottle-making process which had now been halted . |
| 27 | She was not smiling now , but her look was full of a benevolent curiosity , and the soft island voice , with the lilt of the Gaelic moving through it like a gentle sea-swell , warmed me as palpably as if the sun had come into the dim and cluttered little shop . |
| 28 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 29 | The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit . |
| 30 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |