Example sentences of "come [adv] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is also a singer and musician , and her talent as a pianist has often come in useful to teachers with specialist classes . |
| 2 | They 'll want to know why it is that Britain 's second busiest airport has once again come perilously close to disaster . |
| 3 | ‘ We came somewhat late to Aberdeen , ’ wrote Johnson , ‘ and found the inn so full , that we had some difficulty in obtaining admission , till Mr Boswell made himself known . |
| 4 | Then if Mr Major takes a cool look at why Mrs Thatcher was overthrown , why he became Prime Minister in 1990 , and why he came so near to defeat in 1992 , he will see a cycle of excessive boom , high inflation and then prolonged recession . |
| 5 | The wartime earnings of most skilled shipyard workers , for example , would have exceeded £60 a year , and with the Admiralty deducting at source and paying over to the Treasury , yields came much nearer to expectation . |
| 6 | It came as near to cattiness as Grenfell could , and gently brought the house down . |
| 7 | Hanley was injured and so Garry led the side — ‘ the proudest moment in my career ’ — and the Lions came as near to victory as any team has ever done Down Under . |
| 8 | In fact Bukharin came very close to Rosa Luxemburg 's proposition regarding a surplus of consumption goods arising from |
| 9 | Now fate was about to take a hand in the outcome of the championship , for at the next race , at the Nürburgring — a great track , in its old version , for its challenges but a wooded retreat for Germanic savages , drunks and the wettest clouds of Europe — Niki came very close to death . |
| 10 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 11 | Through ceaseless activity and a triumph of will-power , she had by 1987 come as near to success as was possible for one , self-sufficient human being . |
| 12 | Some fine and competitive rallying in which was arguably the best match of the three days , saw her come very close to Audra Keller , a 19 year old form Tennessee who was playing in her third consecutive Maureen Connolly Cup event . |