Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] come to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In an organization , they may rarely come to the attention of a predominantly male management in ways that give them power and encouragement .
2 ‘ Aye well , miss , if I do n't see her the night on the quiet , I 'll only come to the shop the morrow , an' I 'll put it plainly to her da . ’
3 They 'll all come to the tea .
4 It 's been developed in C++ and is known as Interviews , though it 'll probably come to the market as Fresco .
5 ( b ) Where however the prosecution evidence is such that its strength or weakness depends on the view to be taken of a witness 's reliability , or other matters which are generally speaking within the province of the jury and where on one possible view of the facts there is evidence upon which a jury could properly come to the conclusion that the defendant is guilty , then the judge should allow the matter to be tried by the jury .
6 Traditional expectations and traditional assurances could again come to the fore .
7 I could never come to the situation where I would say we 're all equal .
8 It may also come to the rescue of ailing banks .
9 When she left the desert , and the Sandrat knew she would eventually come to the end of the sand , the face would be waiting for her .
10 In explaining each point , I shall begin by posing a problem that the living machine faces ; then I shall consider possible solutions to the problem that a sensible engineer might consider ; I shall finally come to the solution that nature has actually adopted .
11 The sort of girls who would quickly come to the fore are the sort of Malory-Towers-Swallows-and-Amazons type ; practical down to earth and capable , but there would probably be many unlike that who would be perfectly handless when it came to organisation and practicalities .
12 In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham .
13 Tom would sometimes come to the office for a file , but usually he dealt with Emily Lightbody rather than with me .
14 Though the base grant for 1991–92 remained at C$8.5 million , nevertheless , the AGO continued to spend at 1990–91 levels , confident that the ministry would again come to the rescue .
15 ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ?
16 because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course .
17 In the last two chapters , Chapters 8 and 9 , we will finally come to the question of the directions in which teacher-supported change to schools might proceed .
18 Now , the cheats amongst us ( like me ) will discover that you can import graphics into the Cel editor , and will quickly come to the conclusion that very lifelike images can be formed by using a scanner to scan individual frames from a film , and then pick out the bits they want and place them on cels to form a small animated sequence .
19 Dolphins will also come to the defence of each other in fighting off an attacker or threat , and they are ready to extend these forms of rescue to humans in distress .
20 Ask a follower of the warbird movement to ‘ decline ’ the sub-types of the Fw 190 and that will be done ; marks of Spitfire will be no problem ; who built B–17s and the distinguishing items of a ‘ G ’ — easy ; principal Italian fighter aircraft will also come to the tip of the tongue with only the occasional stutter .
21 Like all prisoners of circumstance , you will probably reflect a good deal on the whole subject of ‘ time ’ and of its strange habits of hanging , dragging , or running out too quickly , but if you decide to use and dominate it , instead of allowing it to dominate you , you will inevitably come to the conclusion that it is only wasted if it is thrown away , never when it is offered freely , as a gift of love .
22 More usually , though , a line ferret will drive the loose ferret away and it will then come to the surface of its own accord .
23 That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ .
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