Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have come for three hours while Joe is selling the pigs . ’
2 But as he says , our planet has managed to come through worse cataclysms than any we have so far invented , and there are always winners .
3 Under the new hygiene regulations fryers are likely to come under close scrutiny because traditionally the job of cleaning them is one of the worst in the kitchen .
4 So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land
5 Pronethalol had only just come into clinical use when it was found to produce tumours in mice .
6 That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there .
7 Where there is only one in-situ anchor , or else you are making your own anchor points , the first person down should have back-up protection , clipped independently into the abseil ropes , and adjusted so as to come into immediate effect if the main anchor fails , but without directly supporting it .
8 Have to has to come into common use before it gets into the dictionary .
9 In particular employment in central and local government has come under fierce assault because of its non-market nature .
10 The changes on the labour market had come with greater rapidity than anticipated , too much reliance had been placed on the automatic adjustments , the mobility , of the market mechanism ’ ( quoted Flanagan et al. , 1983 , p. 605 ) .
11 Substantial balances have come from new customers while the overall average balances are higher than Gold 90 balances which are themselves significant .
12 The Scots trailed 12-0 to Nadroga at the interval though , as in Canberra , the opposition scores , through Lala and Esala , the latter 's converted by Suka , had come from Scottish largesse when originally in possession .
13 The Scots trailed 12-0 to Nadroga at the interval though , as in Canberra , the opposition scores , through Lala and Esala , the latter 's converted by Suka , had come from Scottish largesse when originally in possession .
14 The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country .
15 Circulars despatched to the shareholders of a widely-held private company by a purchaser are therefore likely to come within this definition if they relate to an offer or a potential offer .
16 They have come in five games since his move from Liverpool and Villa have won them all .
17 March had come in more lamb than lion , there were windflowers in the woods , and the first primroses , unburned by frost , undashed and unmired by further rain , were just opening .
18 Often we prefer our figures to come from other sources if we feel these are more likely to be unbiased .
19 No decision is likely to come from that avenue until New Zealand have had their regular meeting with the Australian officials in the near future .
20 Miss were you able to come to any view as to whether the call was genuine , from what you heard ?
21 Whether he would have come to that conclusion if the building was betting-shop is an interesting thought , but we ‘ ve been delighted to go along with his judgement .
22 But half the ex-Yugoslavs who have come to Western Europe since the start of the Balkan fighting have not applied for asylum .
23 The brush was all brown as though autumn had come to these islands where there is no autumn but only a more dangerous summer , but that was because the leaves had all been blown away .
24 You 've had this video now and I 've come to this school since you started this school , so you should know more about Stranger Danger than other schools cos I keep coming every year and talking to you about it .
25 These authorities , be they judges , constitutional lawyers or senior political scientists , have come to this view as they have been forced to ponder on two things .
26 Claire Robinson in her affidavit deposes that all parties were in agreement that the court on 16 February had not come to any opinion as to whether or not Mr. Bell had broken or was likely to break any condition of his bail .
27 And finally can I reemphasise that we have not come to any conclusion as to which road we shall go down on this one .
28 I went back to the beginning and started over , but had n't come to any conclusion when I reached the sign telling me that the Florabelle served the thickest steak in five counties .
29 But these really hard scrappers have come on short lines when float fishing , and a short line makes a lot of difference to how a fish fights when the elasticity is negligible .
30 The next time I went slowly past their table , refill coffee pot at the ready , the conversation was back to the journey , with Xanthe this time saying she basically thought horseracing boring and she would n't have come on this trip if her father had n't made her .
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