Example sentences of "come in the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspired , yes , by a bus run , but the booler is definitely my own husband who is devoted to sport and allows nothing to come in the way of his bowls , both indoor and outdoor bowling . |
| 2 | The black director Spike Lee has made a similar mistake in Malcolm X , not so much in characterisation but in allowing awe of the man who challenged white authority in America to come in the way of good film-making . |
| 3 | Morel 's even-handed appeal to ‘ artisans ’ and ‘ industrialists , quickly gave way to the belief that ‘ if any radical changes were to come in the system of intercourse between states … the driving force must come from the organisations of labour . ’ |
| 4 | There are those who think that the ordination of women is bound to come in the course of time and wonder why it is necessary to campaign for it . |
| 5 | SOME shock results on the first day of the French Olympic classes regatta at Hyeres yesterday showed that there could still be plenty of surprises to come in the race for British team selection . |
| 6 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 7 | This was McConnochie 's third success in his career and he gave a hint that there may be more to come in the Hennessy at Newbury on Saturday , saying : ‘ Gala 's Image should run well as long as the ground is not sticky . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Are you going to come in the bath with me , Bob ? ’ she asked , reddening . |
| 9 | This is for teachers to come in the evenings after school and erm work with computers and perhaps more important is discuss with each other how they 're using computers or whatever in , in their classes . |
| 10 | A further pandering to the star would seem to have come in the change of title to Alfredo Alfredo , repeating the name of Dustin 's character , but in fact it was Germi who was not happy with the original title , which sounded as if the film were a sequel to his big international hit of 1961 , Divorce Italian Style . |
| 11 | A significant part of the other third of its income has come in the past from moneys from the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 12 | Have , in the classic phrase of Raymond Chandler , a man come in the door with a gun , make your detective them run for his life or chase the gun-toting man . |
| 13 | So , from time to time , " have a man come in the door with a gun " , as Raymond Chandler famously said , or have another murder committed , as Dame Agatha famously did . |
| 14 | Formed groups are alarming mostly : Frederica had not come in the expectation of enjoying herself . |
| 15 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 16 | It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion . |
| 17 | The blood had come in the middle of the night and she had still been appalled . |
| 18 | ‘ You have come in the nick of time , ’ Alexandra told him . |
| 19 | Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner . |
| 20 | It mattered to Randolph Ash what a man was , though he could , without undue disturbance , have written that general pantechnicon of a sentence using other terms , phrases and rhythms and have come in the end to the same satisfactory evasive metaphor . |
| 21 | If there was an increase by 1545 , much of it may have come in the years after 1530 , and become important economically only after the period covered by this book ( 75 , p.69 ) . |
| 22 | The one good thing that had happened too him in his life had come in the form of Jane . |
| 23 | Recognition for Michael 's work has recently come in the form of a fifteen thousand pound joint first prize in the Jameson awards for environmental research . |
| 24 | A turning-point came in the case of Ridge v. Baldwin in which it was held that the distinction between administrative and judicial functions was of no relevance to deciding whether a decision-maker ought to comply with the rules of natural justice or to the availability of judicial review remedies . |
| 25 | The 5:4 ruling came in the case of Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes , and was accompanied by sharply worded dissenting opinions from those justices who argued that the decision went too far in restricting the rights of habeas corpus . |
| 26 | On the contrary , it came in the course of a remarkable postwar recovery , which was transforming France into a modern , prosperous , and dynamic society . |
| 27 | For all these reasons , the education of women came in the category of voluntaristic innovations strongly desired by government — into the category of social improvements which relied on the example and inspiration of individuals . |
| 28 | The rescue came in the nick of time as the sewer filled with flash flood water just minutes after the pony was brought out . |
| 29 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |
| 30 | THE KILLER blow for Punch came in the middle of probably its last lunch yesterday . |