Example sentences of "come [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap . |
| 2 | She did n't want to come against the flat slack flesh . |
| 3 | Japan risks remaining saddled for years to come with the primitive financial sector that created the domestic boom and bust of the late-1980s . |
| 4 | Formally , however , Sussex had come into the mainstream English religious experience . |
| 5 | He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed . |
| 6 | That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Much of the northern produce has come from the subpolar maritime fringe , notably whalebone and whale oil from the open sea , seal oil , hides and furs from islands and sea ice , fish , and , most recently , shrimps from the continental shelf and slopes . |
| 9 | The remainder come from the following four categories : |
| 10 | Objections to the application for planning permission had also come from the Western Regional Fisheries Board and Westport Tourism as well as several individuals . |
| 11 | Much of what we now know about the tool-using behaviour of wild chimpanzees has come from the remarkable long-term studies carried out at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania by British primatologist Jane Goodall . |
| 12 | The human beings who survive the Flood come from the old corrupt , violent order . |
| 13 | If I was to have any chance of being posted to Calvi , I would have to come in the top five in basic training . |
| 14 | Subject to approval by both Houses of the UK Parliament , the measure was expected to come before the 1994 General Synod for formal declaration . |
| 15 | ‘ Indeed a bill might be one of the first to come before the Scottish Grand Committee . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’ |
| 17 | At present the authorities in Berlin are having difficulty coping with those who have arrived so far , though no more than 1,100 or so have come in the past few days . |
| 18 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 19 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 20 | If Labour suddenly seemed old and unelectable , a real youthful challenge to the Thatcher regime seemed to come from the new Social Democratic Party . |
| 21 | That was an odd comment to come from the right hon. Gentleman who , judged from his comments in recent days , would not have accepted the social charter . |
| 22 | The biggest European danger to Millar seems likely to come from the six-strong German contingent , who include two of their Seoul Olympic gold-medal team , Franke Sloothaak and Ludger Beerbaum . |
| 23 | ‘ The light is come upon the dark benighted way . |
| 24 | The realization that these three systems can interact , and the identification of the mechanisms involved , has only come within the past few years . |
| 25 | It was n't Miss Wharton 's morning and Mr Capstick , who likes to come to the nine thirty Mass , had influenza . |
| 26 | And you 're most likely , here not just for communion but because it 's your custom to come to the six thirty service . |
| 27 | Use the erm , they they invited the Chislehurst May Queen , dan maypole dancers to come to the next open evening . |
| 28 | The nearest any western fighting technique has come to the eastern martial arts , is in the French art of ‘ la Savate ’ . |
| 29 | Thus , both the Fisher and Cambridge versions of the quantity theory come to the same important conclusion : that an increase in the money supply leads directly to an increase in spending and , with full employment , the general price level is proportional to the quantity of money in circulation . |
| 30 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |