Example sentences of "[noun sg] to come [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation .
2 ‘ I do n't know how he 's got the neck to come back to these parts . ’
3 I have still not managed to find another young horse to come on with young Basil .
4 Also available from Bisque is the battery-powered , remote-control Bagno-Stat , which allows you to pre-set the towel radiator heater to come on at specific times and maintain required temperatures .
5 This may explain its reluctance to come out of four wheel drive .
6 It 's taken me quite a while to come up with this team and i 'm sure i 've missed some absolute wankers out , but here goes .
7 The onus now lay upon the architect to come up with new designs and new ideas with which to counter the rapidly growing effectiveness of artillery aided , from about 1430 , by the reversion to the use of cast-iron shot which , although more expensive than stone shot , did not shatter on impact , could be made more uniformly in greater quantities ( the making of stone shot was , to say the least , laborious ) and in smaller calibre , thereby increasing efficiency by reducing the need for very large and unwieldy cannon .
8 The heads of governments asked the commission to come back with precise proposals for how this should be done , so that they could act on them at June 's summit in Copenhagen .
9 Police committee Chairman Colin Hay said he does n't expect the new man to come up with instant solutions to the problem of rising crime :
10 John Goodman , Tom Hanks , Aerosmith , Candice Bergen and Bruce Willis all made the effort to come off like good sports , gamely responding ‘ What ? ’ to Myers ' dopey ‘ Fagssaywhat ’ .
11 They do n't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time .
12 Only one good thing to come out of such cold — it kept the bugs from biting .
13 Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well .
14 But BET has the in-depth strength to come out of this recession as a business toughened by adversity .
15 Different people are at liberty to come up with different methods of doing the calculations , but probably the most authoritative index is the ‘ encephalization quotient ’ or EQ used by Harry Jerison , a leading American authority on brain history .
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