Example sentences of "come [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some kind of befriending scheme using volunteers would be a particularly promising approach , perhaps with people who have come through similarly difficult circumstances . |
| 2 | The names and dates tell their own story : the Treason Act of 1842 , passed after an impotent attempt to frighten the sovereign by a young hunchback with a faultily loaded pistol ; the Vagrancy Act of 1824 which allowed the flogging of ‘ incorrigible rogues ’ , commonly elderly tramps , and which has come into more recent notoriety through the ‘ sus ’ laws ; the Diplomatic Privileges Act of 1708 which offered protection to Ambassadors and their servants ; and the Knacker 's Act of 1786 which dealt with the irregular slaughter of horses and cattle . |
| 3 | Champagnes made with a high proportion of Pinot Meunier sometimes have an earthy tone of fruit and when the grapes have come from less favourable sites , there can be a distinctly sweet aroma which reminds one of a confectioner 's shop . |
| 4 | Since the new rule was rubber stamped last Monday , the blows raining down upon racing 's legislators in Portland Square , London , have come from fairly predictable sources . |
| 5 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
| 6 | She wore the New Look , a coat of beige gaberdine which fell in two swaying , graceful pleats from her waist at the back ( the swaying must have come from very high heels , but I did n't notice her shoes ) , a hat tipped forward from hair swept up . |
| 7 | Shotwell ( 1955 ) attempted to distinguish between bones from different sources by devising an index of completeness of preservation , by which species represented by most complete remains must have been transported shorter distances and therefore have come from communities close by , while species with less well preserved remains must have come from more distant communities . |
| 8 | The burghers of Lichfield are a cultured and discerning lot , and were clearly charmed by guest speakers Joanna Trollope and Mark Wallington , who could hardly have come from more different writing genres . |
| 9 | Erm it 's a difficult balance , change is very rarely popular and quite often it 's only ever talked about but sometimes it happens and even then it 's not popular but a balanced and open mind is required to approach change but perhaps more important , and this is n't always mentioned , suggestions about change tend to come from rather specific areas and there are rather specific interest groups which may start the process of change |
| 10 | But we will still need 50 per cent of energy to come from more concentrated power sources . |
| 11 | And although they tended to come from less advantaged backgrounds , only children performed as well as , or even slightly better than , fellow pupils from two-child families . |
| 12 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |
| 13 | In two careful analyses of the survey evidence over the past four months , the Washington Post and the American Political Report , an influential newsletter , have come to broadly similar conclusions . |
| 14 | Investigators who have reviewed the research have come to quite opposite conclusions . |
| 15 | There is no real reason to believe that the civil-military mission which the US sent to Vietnam would , in any event , have come to substantially different conclusions but the fact remains that their report was made under the impact of the Korean War and as one of its leaders said of the other his thoughts seemed largely to be with ‘ his ’ division in Korea . |
| 16 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 17 | There was a minor , uninfluential theme in his posthumous reputation that he had come by abnormally horny knees from long hours in prayer . |
| 18 | Jane was a Welsh woman from the Gower Peninsula , and there was something about her that my grandfather had not realized when he married her after my grandmother died so young : she came of very inbred stock , and had periodic mental lapses . |
| 19 | The share advance came against more poor trading news , with Jaguar 's US sales down 19.1 per cent last month . |
| 20 | The swords which had been clubbed or shortened into daggers for want of space to use them , now came into more orthodox play ; and the Welsh archers above on the hills were able to select their targets again without killing their own comrades , and worked with supercilious skill as long as there was light to slay by , and an Englishman still alive . |
| 21 | Distorted faces peered from walls , agonised limbs writhed from the pavements , and pillars of stone groaned with voices that came from once human lips . |
| 22 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 23 | However , not quite normal , since the mouse will have four parents if the original two embryos came from quite different mothers and fathers . |
| 24 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 25 | The three cases described by the Health Service Commissioner differed in detail , and in each the Commissioner came to slightly different conclusions . |
| 26 | The Supply of Petrol ( MMC , 1990 ) came to quite different conclusions regarding the superficially similar vertical arrangements in that industry . |
| 27 | Partly for technical reasons , partly for temperamental reasons , Russell came to very different conclusions to the Platonic ones with which he began . |
| 28 | The invitation to appear on it came at very short notice , and even though she 's no longer modelling except at charity functions , she feels a need to keep in the public eye , so she did n't want to turn it down , but she insisted that Florian and I should keep to our plans . ’ |
| 29 | Unlike quasars and active galactic nuclei , which seem to require black holes to explain the enormous energies coming from very compact regions , the energy generated by Sgr A is rather feeble . |
| 30 | Physical attacks on leading government figures might at least disorganize the regime enough to force it to accede to the appeals for political reform which were once again coming from more moderate sections of public opinion . |