Example sentences of "come [adv] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Reports began to come in of successful strikes on other vehicles . |
2 | While the role of small firms should not be discounted , recent work at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex has shown just how many significant innovations have come out of large companies . |
3 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
4 | Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well . |
5 | ‘ I expect to come out of these games with good results , ’ said Atkinson , before warning about hidden pitfalls in the long run in to the finishing line . |
6 | cos I want to come out of thick woollies now it is March |
7 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
8 | The bombs fell on South Wales and reports came in of young men killed in the air , on land , at sea . |
9 | Stories came in of fresh controversies and skirmishes between the Desmonds and the Ormondes , and Maurice Fitzgerald began making overtures to Spain in the hope that King Philip might agree to support Ireland and throw out the English , once and for all . |
10 | What we have is picking up a ragbag of stable door legislation , that came out of other Acts , and that 's why we have offices , shops and railway premises from the Oswald Acts which were neatly tucked in the back of Oswald 's Act . |
11 | The computer , to cite another example , required no fewer than six separate strands of knowledge : binary arithmetic ; Charles Babbage 's conception of a calculating machine in the first half of the nineteenth century ; the punch card , invented by Herman Hollerith for the US census of 1890 ; the audion tube , an electronic switch invented in 1906 ; symbolic logic , which was created between 1910 and 1913 by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead ; and the concepts of programming and feedback that came out of abortive attempts during World War I to develop effective anti-aircraft guns . |
12 | Then jagged peaks came out of cloud-filled valleys to steal all colouring from the sky and day flooded the glacier ahead , painting it with a palette of new-formed pastel shades . |
13 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
14 | By its membership , the central committee was the coming together of regional committees to discuss common strategies , which would then be taken back to the regional committees for further discussion . |
15 | Is it not a matter of great rejoicing , wherever we may sit in the House , that throughout the past 40 years , which have seen such momentous changes as the peaceful transition from empire to Commonwealth , the ending of the cold war and the coming together of former enemies in the European Community , Her Majesty has presided over this nation unfailingly , with a dignity and devotion to duty for which we are all greatly thankful ? |
16 | The simplistic edges succeeded in highlighting the strength of the songwriting , the virtuosity of Johnny Marr 's guitar work and the gradual coming together of four musicians with one purpose . |
17 | It 's where you got the er the branch chains coming off of different positions . |
18 | They may have been on the street , or coming out of bed-and-breakfast lodgings . |
19 | It was then but a short — though for many an agonising — step to provide special courses for those coming out of special schools and the remedial classes of comprehensives . |
20 | Contrary to the original plans , therefore , over 80 per cent of the capital is coming out of public funds . |
21 | You can have them coming out of both earholes , each nostril and his mouth all at the same time ! |
22 | Given goodwill on British Coal 's part , the first ‘ private ’ coal could be coming out of these mines by Christmas . |
23 | The twenty thousand required to make that spend will come out of public conveniences budget . |
24 | Foreigners are always apt to find charming the examples they come across of quaint anachronisms , of dated anomalies , in English life . |
25 | What comes out of those films is his willingness to do films . |