Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge described their life together as a story of high achievement and glorious success , which had come through unrelenting hard work , unlimited self-sacrifice and absolute determination . |
| 2 | We have come through those stupid remarks by responsible people . |
| 3 | He 's quite happy to come for those two ladies . . |
| 4 | Labour leader John Smith bluntly told the Commons : ‘ The time has now come for effective international action . ’ |
| 5 | It has always been difficult to organize hotel workers by the very nature of their industry but the time has now come for those very workers to join the G M B so that collectively we can fight the exploitation of low paid workers . |
| 6 | Barton was the only one of the three to make it as far as the quarters , but he still had to come through another two heats to overhaul Hardman 's tally of points . |
| 7 | The field in which the claims of individual commercialism come into most immediate conflict with reputable notions of social values is that of health … no society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means … |
| 8 | You remember ‘ Egg and chips twice , ’ the Biblethumper who used to come into that little café with his girlfriend every evening when we were in billets on the South Coast ? |
| 9 | The chapters in this section of the reader consider various aspects of teaching and learning that have come under increased official scrutiny by central state agencies in recent years , particularly the curriculum of schools , the assessment of pupil performance in school and the quality of teaching itself . |
| 10 | As government expenditures have grown , the objectives and results of such programmes have come under increased public scrutiny . |
| 11 | This was the first time a Social Work Department in Scotland had come under such public fire for the same reasons . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the fact remains , these are exceptional cases , and it is worth remarking that even in the two cases cited , the freeholders concerned had not come under any previous commitment to a rival candidate . |
| 13 | SIGNS that the economy might be on the upturn come with another major East Anglian employer back in profit . |
| 14 | It was the biggest of her sons speaking now , the one who had opened the door , and he said , ‘ She 's a classy piece , Ma , and she 's come with some strange news . |
| 15 | McDonald 's restaurants in Central and South America ( Argentina , Brazil , Costa Rica , Guatemala , Mexico , Panama and Venezuela ) only use suppliers who document that their beef has come from long established cattle ranches — not rainforest land . |
| 16 | ‘ But the head and the Hand of Glory come from that poor hag . |
| 17 | Ahmed had come from that dizzy town to boast that he had seen a bad strange girl leaving Marie Claire 's house and had shouted and thrown stones at her . |
| 18 | And now , very recently indeed , confirmation has come from that remarkable treasury of early fossils , the Burgess Shalesin the Canadian Rockies . |
| 19 | Then the water vapour which condensed into oceans must have come from early volcanic activity and from the gaseous components of the solid Earth itself . |
| 20 | ‘ The test has shown positive , but as far as we know at the moment it could have come from many different sources . ’ |
| 21 | The genes in an organism today have come from many different ancestors . |
| 22 | Because we had all come from such different backgrounds , and were individuals bound together only by circumstance , I felt it was impossible to criticise their actions as I did n't fully understand their motivations . |
| 23 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |
| 24 | The wastes that go down the drain come from two main sources , the textiles themselves and the residues of chemicals employed in treating them . |
| 25 | Policy development has come from two main sources . |
| 26 | Further confirmation that public attitudes towards corporate crime are hardening and becoming more punitive have come from other American studies ( McCleary et al . |
| 27 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 28 | The pressures for change in industry come from three main areas . |
| 29 | If promised reforms of US healthcare live halfway up to some of the lurid stories being bandied around on Wall Street , then the new administration on Pennsylvania Avenue will have missed a trick : almost every job created since the recession began in 1990 has come from this vibrant industry . |
| 30 | How could all those wonderful , light , fairy designs have come from this dreary-looking lady ? |