Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have come through this experience with much greater understanding of social workers . |
| 2 | Maria replied that she was to be allowed to come for two days in the week following her letter . |
| 3 | The valleys will have nobody working at all , there 'll be no one paying insurances , no income tax , so where is the money going to come for future pensions for people right through the country . |
| 4 | This bloke here has only just come about fifteen miles up the road . |
| 5 | With adverse publicity about the failure to establish a development programme in the black townships and a renewal of sanctions from the ANC now inevitable , Botha believes that the time has come for ageing administrators like Danie Craven to step down . |
| 6 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 7 | Perhaps the time has come for another name to be engraved on the trophies . |
| 8 | It must have come as one hell of a shock for you , Skeeter . ’ |
| 9 | The vision of God 's strength at Mahanaim would seem to come as timely reassurance of his protection in the dangers to come . |
| 10 | The house in Broad Street was to be inundated in the years to come with hopeful contributions from naval captains , clergymen , convicts , sheep-farmers , and soldiers , as well as Gould 's own specially appointed collectors . |
| 11 | A large proportion of Whitely 's inmates had also come via other gaols throughout the country ; prisons where they could n't be handled adequately . |
| 12 | Analysts expect the pound to come under renewed pressure in the run-up to Thursday 's Bundesbank meeting , which will decide whether and by how much to raise West Germany 's key Lombard interest rate . |
| 13 | The Autonomous Region of South Ossetia continued to come under heavy attack from Georgian forces sited outside its capital , Tskhinvali , which was cut off from aid ; there were reports of hostage-taking . |
| 14 | Nuclear power will help to save oil — the most vital of the USSR 's energy resources , yet a great deal more will need to be done to change Soviet energy structures if domestic oil supplies and supplies to other Communist countries are not to come under extreme pressure in the late 1980s and 1990s. there will still have to be a reduction in supplies to the Communist bloc and a considerable reduction in the proportion of Soviet energy demand which is met by oil . |
| 15 | The British Olympic yachting team , which a week ago was an unknown quantity , has now come into sharper focus with three representatives chosen , and others emerging . |
| 16 | Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years . |
| 17 | My most abiding memory will not be of the joy of the French , but the terrible sight of Pete Sampras ' face at the prize giving ceremony which looked as if he had come into intimate contact with an atom bomb . |
| 18 | Should any of this sodium come into direct contact with water the result could be literally explosive . |
| 19 | However little ‘ charisma ’ had come into these considerations in 1933 , there seems no doubt that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ — or significant elements of it — played an important role in shaping the behaviour of the conservative élites in the following years in at least two ways . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office on May 8 announced that the UK would return to Albania gold worth £10,000,000 ( US$18,000,000 ) which had come into British hands after its confiscation by the Nazis during the Second World War . |
| 21 | The word ‘ carer ’ has come into common usage in the past ten years or so , but it has been used imprecisely . |
| 22 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 23 | With decline , such distinctions broke down , and the ruling race was forced to come into closer contact with the ruled . |
| 24 | The Bengali intelligentsia , the first sizeable social group in Asia to come into close contact with a European nation , were also the first to experience such a revolution in their mental world . |
| 25 | By that time Sheila Rowbotham was beginning to come into peripheral contact with the magazine . |
| 26 | Firstly , to brief top management on the possibilities of AI ; although not likely to come into direct contact with AI they would be first to see the likely improvements in effectiveness and efficiency . |
| 27 | The result is that , by and large , the fiscal has to take the case as the police have presented it ; he does not seize the opportunity to come into direct contact with the investigation and has little chance of finding out what the police have ignored . |
| 28 | After all , she told herself in extenuation , this was the first thing she had ever done to please herself … but , said a small voice — ‘ but ’ is surely the most miserable little word in the English language — but … they had n't asked to come into this vale of tears … . |
| 29 | By the mid-century Freemasonry was strong in Austria and Bohemia , but in the 1780s its activities had come under close scrutiny from the new emperor , Joseph 11 , and the Austrian secret police . |
| 30 | In Iran Rafsanjani had come under strong attack from Khomeini supporters who accused him of siding with America by accepting arms from the Great Satan and helping to get some of their hostages released . |