Example sentences of "come [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , the random scatter of insights prompts one to appeal to Hughes with Keats ' suggestion , modestly opposed to the schematic might of The Godess essof Complete Being : ‘ Wheneer eryou write , say a word or two on some passage in Shakespeare that may have come rather new to you . ’ |
| 2 | She is also a singer and musician , and her talent as a pianist has often come in useful to teachers with specialist classes . |
| 3 | The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
| 4 | ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’ |
| 5 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 6 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 7 | So how come so few of the 141 organisations which have joined Opportunity 2000 , the campaign to improve the balance of men and women in the work-force , are accountants ? |
| 8 | Martin Brundle drove a superbly measured race in his Ligier Renault to come home fifth for his third points-scoring finish in four races . |
| 9 | So far she had got no information and she had come dangerously near to paying the price . |
| 10 | She had come totally unprepared for the northern climes and , at Adam 's insistence , had bought some clothes near to Newark on their way to Teterborough Airport . |
| 11 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 12 | It 's not mentioned anywhere I think it ought to come up first in Q P9 does n't it ? |
| 13 | Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else . |
| 14 | By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on . |
| 15 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 16 | The reflectors , the mean here is at thirteen the average is thirteen they 're all slightly higher , so eighteen to twenty would be a very strong whereas the others have just come out fifteen to seventeen which is strong , you 've actually come out fairly strong there , because the highest score for anything is twenty . |
| 17 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 18 | And oddly enough erm the lead in many cases has come as much from the primary school as from the university in this respect . |
| 19 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 20 | ‘ When I used to come here first of all I did n't know everybody like now . |
| 21 | In fact the local feudal lords were powerful and ambitious , and Todi seems to have come relatively late to communal independence of the count and the bishop . |
| 22 | I part company with the Committee in a small way on its comment that those developments would have come about irrespective of our privatisation proposals . |
| 23 | They 'll want to know why it is that Britain 's second busiest airport has once again come perilously close to disaster . |
| 24 | Changes in oral hygiene and dental practice have come too late for the men and women in today 's Homes . |
| 25 | The law has come too late for Anna McGurk , all her parents can now hope is that by the passing of this bill , some good will finally have come from her death . |
| 26 | Trax hopes to deter potential joyriders … it 's come too late for the people of Barton |
| 27 | While today 's cut in interest rates has been welcomed by industrial leaders , the news has come too late for many businesses . |
| 28 | It had come too late to be effective . |
| 29 | ‘ NEARLY man ’ is an overused term in sport , a label that is often attached to anyone who has come remotely near to making an impact in their chosen vocation before failing to reach the exalted heights expected of them . |
| 30 | In recent years the problem of accidents and accident prevention has come very much to the fore because the huge scale of the problem is now recognised . |