Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 2 | It must have come as one hell of a shock for you , Skeeter . ’ |
| 3 | The vision of God 's strength at Mahanaim would seem to come as timely reassurance of his protection in the dangers to come . |
| 4 | After all , she told herself in extenuation , this was the first thing she had ever done to please herself … but , said a small voice — ‘ but ’ is surely the most miserable little word in the English language — but … they had n't asked to come into this vale of tears … . |
| 5 | More direct indications of function come with small groups of vessels having three solid or horizontally pierced lugs for suspension by a cord or thong ; these were designed primarily as household utensils . |
| 6 | New and more productive cereal cultivars have contributed their share to improved yields , but the biggest share in developed countries like the United States has come from increased use of fertilizers — 55 per cent between 1965 and 1976 , according to the New Delhi paper quoting an FAO estimate . |
| 7 | In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) . |
| 8 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
| 9 | Endorsement of the award has come from many sectors of industry , including Stirling Gallacher , chairman of Sutcliffe Services Group Limited , who says that people are the key to our current and future success as leading contract caterers . |
| 10 | Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis . |
| 11 | Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland . |
| 12 | For many people , ‘ human ’ and ‘ computation ’ come from opposite ends of their thesaurus . |
| 13 | Much of what we now know , in a still difficult and very controversial area , about different kinds of ‘ televised violence ’ and their differential effects on differently situated children , or about the effects of different kinds of political broadcasting — party statements , electoral reporting , definitions of the ‘ main issues ’ — has come from this kind of research . |
| 14 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 15 | We sent a message of solidarity to the 250 women on board the ship , who had come from different parts of the world including the Arab Region . |
| 16 | At the end of the day Child and I were cursing our luck and Douglas Hamilton was waxing lyrical about the placidity of the beasts , who had allowed him to come within six yards of them . |
| 17 | These seem to come from two kinds of sources ; either the Theatre Games of Viola Spolin ( 1963 ) or an extension of the widening of activities in drama lessons introduced by Brian Way . |
| 18 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 19 | Reports on May 5 said that US troops had come within 2 km of the town of Dahuk , south of the " safe havens " zone . |
| 20 | ‘ I have n't come within three players of putting out my best team , ’ he was quoted as saying yesterday . |
| 21 | We have to come to some kind of deal with the trade unions in this complex interim period . |
| 22 | ‘ All the same , it makes sense to come to some kind of agreement about this . |
| 23 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 24 | We began the year with the Department of the Environment withdrawing the Comber-Dundonald portion of the track-bed from the market and refusing to come to any form of agreement with the Trust regarding the future of this portion of the line . |
| 25 | We have a a very large brethren , er brother in the methodist ministry , and er when the mayor of Derby addressed the Methodist Conference , he said , you know , he like to come to these kind of events , and he 'd talk about the specific sort of things . |
| 26 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |
| 27 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 28 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 29 | Many Christians of a liberal disposition have come to this conclusion of some aspects of the myth . |
| 30 | have come to this world of the mortals . |