Example sentences of "[prep] coming [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 a customer comes in and he was my wife I did n't have er beard then I was clean-shaven , because after coming to this country when I could n't get a job , I thought that this might be a bar so , which was n't right , but we did it .
2 After coming under military bombardment , twenty-two thousand hungry people are marhcing south .
3 A WJC spokesman said in New York that Israel 's Council of Mayors of Arab Towns and Villages , which had originally agreed to resettle the Bosnians in two Arab villages , reversed their decision after coming under heavy pressure from the PLO .
4 However , the ship turned back on March 11 after coming within two miles of Indonesian territorial waters .
5 But they do not move blindly , in the hope of coming to better pastures .
6 Erm , could you tell me erm something about how you felt about the change of coming to this house , you know whether you enjoyed it ?
7 Such a view helped trade union leaders to think in terms of coming to some type of arrangement with industrialists who were feeling the pinch of economic policy .
8 I for one very much welcome the possibility of custodianship as yet another route to permanence for children in care , or at risk of coming into long-term care .
9 Oh you must stop that bad habit of coming into this car , every single time , light a cigarette .
10 ‘ I 'm not going to name anyone in particular but you are all aware of those who have been to Australia this winter with the A team , and they have all got a chance of coming through this summer especially some of the young bowlers . ’
11 I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision .
12 " I 'm grateful to you for your help and for coming to High Brook in the first place .
13 So it is thanks to you for coming to these events and thanks to all who contributed to the organisation for between you all it was a most successful day .
14 For many years before coming to this place , I worked with young children .
15 Since prices and populations generally change over time , it is crucially important to compare real output per capita figures rather than money national income figures before coming to any conclusions about changes in economic welfare .
16 Adrian Titcombe , the FA 's crowd management co-ordinator , said : ‘ We want to be clear where the trouble occurred so we will study all the reports before coming to any conclusion . ’
17 Assuming no relapse , Robson and Steve McMahon , who wore the captain 's mantle so impressively in Stockholm , are capable of winning enough possession to prevent the defence from coming under sustained pressure .
18 This was the Act of Confinement which forbade Dissenters from coming within five miles of a city or corporation or the place where they had formerly ministered .
19 Of course TI is also discounting and will consider purchases of Tsunami and other chips in coming to final prices .
20 Its success in coming to collective agreements and avoiding industrial strife was seen as a gauge of the wider success of the national compacts between employers and unions ( see , e.g. , Pueblo , 3 March 1982 ) .
21 In one of the most influential pieces of feminist research on sex differences ever produced , the psychologist Carol Gilligan argued that women and men tend to use different criteria and reasoning procedures in coming to moral decisions .
22 Perhaps that , yes , her child is intelligent and thoughtful and even knowledgeable ; yes , she would be as competent as many adults in coming to sensible conclusions .
23 Firstly , what was the precise nature of the Allied policy which served as guidance in coming to this decision ?
24 Later , when dealing with the case against the appellant Low , and having told the jury that they could not consider as evidence against him any statements made by the second appellant , he added : ‘ Now in deciding what it was that the first accused is proved to have done , you must consider all the evidence available in the case against the first accused in coming to this decision , but only that evidence . ’
25 Thus her delay in coming to this man .
26 In coming to this conclusion Pearson L.J .
27 In coming to this conclusion he makes two important observations .
28 I am not an optimist by nature , but since coming to this country I have blessed by good fortune .
29 The English could use these at will , and looked to do so later ; the Scots could not approach them without coming into close range of archery they had learned to respect .
30 The artefact 's affinity to the unconscious also allows it to play an important role in marking different forms of social reality , and allowing these and the perspectives arising from different social positions to exist concurrently without coming into overt conflict .
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