Example sentences of "come [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he acknowledge that Government Departments have not even come near their own target of 3 per cent . |
| 2 | Paradoxically , it was in this administrative vacuum that many members of the Colonial Service felt they had come into their own . |
| 3 | In mid-winter in the UK , some areas of great natural beauty come into their own . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 5 | It 's only recently that lightweight microfibres , specialists nylons like Pertex and lightweight poly/cottons have come into their own and dramatically increased the versatility and insulation of fleece . |
| 6 | Other critics praised Street Scene : George Blaisdell for instance liked the way in which ‘ simple persons have come into their own ’ and Photoplay told its readers that here they would find the ‘ humour , the pathos and the gripping drama ’ which they saw again and again in their own lives and in their own newspapers , but then it went on to ask : ‘ Will it be box-office ? ’ |
| 7 | The ban against marriage to a deceased wife 's sister was rescinded in 1907 , another sign that the middle classes had come into their own . |
| 8 | Viridian and phthalocyanine green come into their own when a particularly transparent mid green is required . |
| 9 | At least some of the ‘ fossils ’ , or outdated ‘ introns ’ , had come into their own again . |
| 10 | With humanity forced into the undignified retreat of its collective beds , the processes of Earth come into their own . |
| 11 | More often than not , those who have seemed moderate since the previous year 's Cheltenham Festival come into their own with a vengeance . |
| 12 | With Maggie in London , Sheila and Mona had more light to themselves and were better able to come into their own . |
| 13 | And it would n't have been until the development of the first cities that streetwalkers really started to come into their own 11,000 — 12,000 years later . |
| 14 | It is a quiet and comfortable village to stop in , as I know from having stopped there , with good walks up into the hills and good fishing — for trout , which begin to come into their own around here as the mountain fish . |
| 15 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 16 | Only 2 points have come from their last 4 league games , but they want revenge for last season 's 5-3 defeat at the Manor . |
| 17 | God the Creator , the God who had come alongside men in Jesus , now made himself available to come within their very personalities . |
| 18 | That had been their perfect existence before the empire builders had come in their tall ships . |
| 19 | Although far from the dust and heat of India , the Sikhs had come in their thousands , roosting like exotic birds on the chimney-pots and the concrete of Southall . |
| 20 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 21 | Delegates agreed to open Eureka 's project database to east European companies and research institutes , although funding would , as in other countries , have to come from their own resources or from the governments ( which had so far provided less than 30 per cent of funding ) . |
| 22 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 23 | We want companies and workforces to come to their own arrangements . |
| 24 | They are young people from each area who speak in the local language about important development issues , facilitate discussions and encourage villagers to come to their own conclusions through a series of interactive exercises . |
| 25 | People 'll have to come to their own conclusions . |
| 26 | And it must help pupils to come to their own commitments as they live their lives in a world of confusing , diverse and often conflicting values and beliefs . |
| 27 | In collecting biographical material fans were asked to give accounts of the ways in which they had come to their present position in the terraces and to indicate on a sketch plan of the London Road End , past , and projected future locations . |
| 28 | They would have read about these things happening , but now it has come to their own door it has been greeted with great sadness . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Payments will be made according to a formula — even if the parties involved have come to their own amicable agreement . |
| 30 | I ca n't really say any more as to how they themselves have come to come to their particular judgement , but that is the judgement of the members . |