Example sentences of "[adj] to come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brother Peter was too upset to come to the phone today but his secretary confirmed that Hunt , a father-of-two , died of a heart attack during the night . |
| 2 | This was because the winding up petition was due to come before the court again on 30 July . |
| 3 | The Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill was due to come before the Commons this week , but campaigners predicted it would be blocked by the government once more . |
| 4 | erm but ea she would n't bring him over to the phone , she said oh he 's too weak to come to the phone . |
| 5 | Also if a civil servant fails to answer to a committee 's satisfaction , the government accept that the appropriate minister should be prepared to come before the committee . |
| 6 | Old Cowslip was n't afraid to come into the middle of us , was he ? " |
| 7 | ‘ Why I 'm calling , sir , is to ask if you 're free to come to The Randolph this morning . ’ |
| 8 | He had never been too sure as , technically , she was too old to come under the heading of pretty . |
| 9 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 10 | With Celia intermittently in a clinic on the outskirts of north London , Brian at his wits ' end and pondering whether to bribe Mrs Bennett to return , Karen had suddenly made the suggestion that her widowed mother might be willing to come to the rescue . |
| 11 | We hope that it will never occur again , but if it does , may we have clear guidance so that those outside the House will know that if the police warn that it is unsafe to come into the House the Division either will or will not be extended ? |
| 12 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 13 | BIOTECHNOLOGY seems set to come to the aid of the short children of America . |
| 14 | She is not a communicant member because she does n't find herself worthy to come to the lord 's table . |
| 15 | He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ . |
| 16 | But I had to say I 'm sorry Richard , and he said you 're very welcome to come to the service |
| 17 | Within twenty-four hours Washington told Sullivan that the Shah would be welcome to come to the United States . |
| 18 | The thing is , they 're likely to come on the market quite soon . |
| 19 | Sotheby 's open the Impressionist season with Matisse 's ‘ Fatma , la mulatresse ’ painted in 1912 and one of the few pictures of this period likely to come on the market . |
| 20 | Turn to a risk-taking , entrepreneurial company and you are likely to come across the converse of the structure theme : |
| 21 | The amateur collector is most likely to come across the cycad foliage , with its characteristic narrow central rib and flat leaflets . |
| 22 | No traders were likely to come to the Hall that day or any other , and she could hardly risk being seen speaking to them even if they did . |
| 23 | Has the professional body exerted too dominant , and too narrow an influence ? ) ; the learning process ( Is there an undue balance towards the student having to assimilate and memorize material , rather than engaging in active reflection and exploration ? ) ; and the examining process ( Will it allow the student to demonstrate his or her higher-order abilities ? ) are often more likely to come to the fore , when staff from outside the immediate discipline are sharing in the course review process . |
| 24 | Their work is more likely to come to the attention of headquarters staff ‘ in practice … ’ , as a senior man put it , ‘ only when there 's a cock-up ’ . |
| 25 | This is due probably to the fact that people suffering from aphasia are more likely to come to the attention of a neurologist than individuals suffering from certain kinds of right hemisphere damage which may pass unnoticed by the individual himself such that he does not seek medical attention or is not referred for neurological investigation . |
| 26 | Remove any foliage likely to come below the water line . |
| 27 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 28 | as if in recognition of the inherent limitations of the appeals system in this respect , the Magistrates ' Association issued a set of national guide-lines , in 1999 , which set out for the first time a scale of recommended penalties covering the 25 commonest offence types likely to come before the magistrates , together with guidance on the approach to be adopted for different degrees of seriousness . |
| 29 | Words flung out in temper , for instance , do not carry lasting conviction although they may wound at the time , whereas a calm statement , arising from inner knowledge , is likely to come from the centre of one 's being and to hold fast . |
| 30 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |