Example sentences of "come at [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 2 | Overshadowed by the Gulf crisis , the meeting noted that the multinational forces confronting Iraq " have come at the request of the GCC states and will leave the region when the GCC states request " . |
| 3 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 4 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 5 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 6 | In this , the scene is divided into three sections both horizontally and vertically , and the idea is to line up the shot so that the main features are made to come at the intersections of the imaginary dividing lines . |
| 7 | If the video is to end with music though , you should arrange for the last note to come at the end of the last shot . |
| 8 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 9 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 10 | For instance , in Kenya we came at a herd of elephants fast and low — bang ! |
| 11 | The decisions came at a meeting of a sub-committee of the highways committee . |
| 12 | The decision came at a meeting of the new 14-member Consultative Group on Indonesia in Paris on July 16-17 , chaired by the World Bank , set up after Indonesia dissolved a Netherlands-led aid forum in March in protest at alleged Netherlands interference in its internal affairs [ see p. 38868 ] . |
| 13 | Weakening British exports , as the incomes of the primary producing countries overseas began to fall , came at a time of a downturn in the US economy which greatly aggravated deflationary tendencies . |
| 14 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 15 | It came at a time of growing interest among member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) in new sources for cheaper supplies of bananas , following the relaxation of the preferential access granted to certain African and Caribbean countries covered by the EC 's Lomé Convention agreement [ see pp. 37210-11 ] . |
| 16 | The attack , the most audacious IRA operation on the UK mainland since the 1984 Brighton bombing [ see p. 33365 ] , came at a time of heightened security because of threatened terrorist attacks in connection with the Gulf war . |
| 17 | The warning came at the opening of the European pig and poultry fair at the National Agricultural Centre . |
| 18 | According to the London-based Africa Confidential newsletter of May 22 , the delay came at the insistence of the opposition , which , while claiming that the rainy season would create transport problems for delegates , was in fact concerned that comparatively few parties had as yet been granted legal status . |
| 19 | The first exchange came at the beginning of November 1929 . |
| 20 | The summer came at the beginning of August . |
| 21 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 22 | Signs of willingness to finalize a no-attack treaty came at the conclusion of a third round of high-level talks on Dec. 18-20 in Islamabad , Pakistan , between the Indian foreign secretary Muchkund Dubey and his Pakistani counterpart , Shahryar Khan . |
| 23 | The agreement came at the conclusion of a two-day meeting in Paris of the World Bank 's Egypt consultative group — the first time it had met since 1981 . |
| 24 | Even Bean 's reluctant character , inevitably christened Whizzo , came at the rattle of a food bucket . |
| 25 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 26 | Her moment came at the end of the first course when , without any apparent signal , the parlourmaid came back into the room . |
| 27 | The almost unanimous passage of the decree , by 364 votes to 6 , came at the end of a day of turmoil at the Supreme Soviet sitting in the Kremlin . |
| 28 | But our real kick came at the end of the film when the lights went up . |
| 29 | Five of those minutes came at the end of the first half , allowing Hein to score the first of his morale-boosting tries for Oxford in the right corner . |
| 30 | Bonanza Boy finished a remote eighth in the race and is 10lb worse off with Little Polveir but it is unwise to judge him on that performance which came at the end of a long season after some punishing contests . |