Example sentences of "come [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly we have come through the worst of the recession . |
| 2 | Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him . |
| 3 | Yet those who have come off the worse from their dealings with Hamnett may have sharper recall , among them London 's high fashion retailers Joseph Ettedgui and Peter Bertelsen . |
| 4 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |
| 5 | Whatever resources were devoted to the transformation approach , the bulk of agricultural production continued to come from the millions of small farming families who were adjusting their forms of production only slowly . |
| 6 | The day when McQuaid always used to come from the fair in Mohill and we had to make the big tea . ’ |
| 7 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 8 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 9 | Voight came off the better of the two , because Fearless Frank ( originally called Frank 's Greatest Adventure ) was the more interesting in being Phil Kaufman 's debut as director , and having the author Nelson ( The Man with the Golden Arm ) Algren playing a gangster called Needles . |
| 10 | This change came with the eighth in the Val Fajr series , launched in the south on 9 February in commemoration of the period seven years earlier when the Shah left and Khomeini returned from his sojourn in France . |
| 11 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 12 | Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah . |
| 13 | Protests about professionalization also came in the 1960s from the prominenti of Oxford English . |
| 14 | More innovation came in the Thirties in the shape of the first streamlined pen — the Balance . |
| 15 | The first real jewel in the crown of the empire came in the mid-Seventies with the building of the 72-storey First Canadian Place , where the Reichmanns have their world headquarters . |
| 16 | The research will investigate the archives of ministries involved in formulating policies which came in the 1950s to be subject to the control of international agreements between more than two west European countries . |
| 17 | And a grievous weeping came from the last of the three reeds . |
| 18 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 19 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 20 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 21 | But if the worst really came to the worst in Japan , the resulting mess could not simply be welcomed as come-uppance . |
| 22 | He was going like a winner when he came to the third from home , fell and broke a leg . |
| 23 | Gradually the port wing tip fell on the ground and we came to the gentlest of stops some 70/80 yards from the engineering wing perimeter . |
| 24 | Burun estimated that the party of riders beneath it was coming through the last of the little valleys which led out onto the plain . |
| 25 | DeFries made a lot of career decisions for David that worked , but suddenly decisions , desires to do things , were coming between the two of them , so there was a clash on whose decision was going to win and whose idea was going to win . |
| 26 | He did in the end manage to reach Liverpool Street station just as the passengers were coming off the two-twenty from Ipswich . |
| 27 | Goods trains coming from the Baltic to Moscow took between one and four weeks , a distance that was covered in fourteen hours by passenger trains . |
| 28 | Let's come to the Gothic in Jane Eyre , in why , in a sense , i it 's in our reading lis it 's on our reading list this term . |
| 29 | And then , as you would surely expect if not demand , we come to the greatest of all operettas , ‘ Die Fledermaus ’ ( 1874 ) — starting with the famous overture , and going on to excerpts from the party scene of Act II . |
| 30 | Here we come to the first of many possible variations , in that this change of gain may be continuously variable or switched between two different values . |