Example sentences of "come of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One couched in the form of an account of the sale of the deceased 's effects says , ‘ Of Mr Marshall for the fine of the yeares to come of the lease of the house ’ |
2 | Very little seems to have come of the initiative until five years later , when the Treasury created something along these lines for the Conservative Chancellor , R. A. Butler , as part of an examination of spending on the social services . |
3 | Nothing seemed to have come of the silver salver idea , no doubt because of the continuing need for secrecy . |
4 | Here are come of the issues and challenges we faced . |
5 | At this stage news came of a revolt of the Irish Catholics against the Protestant ascendancy , in which thousands of the latter had been slaughtered . |
6 | My father , as I say , came of a generation mercifully free of such confusions of our professional values . |
7 | Nothing came of a suggestion to bring over a preacher from Germany to take care of the miners ' needs . |
8 | She came of a family whose heads felt cold in the night ( their father had worn a nightcap ) and now she rose to a sitting position looking , in the gloom , like some eastern potentate , her beautiful nose and high forehead all surmounted by what seemed to be a turban but was actually some sort of woolly garment skilfully disposed about her head . |
9 | He was highly cultured and came of a family of minor nobility . |
10 | , Richard ( fl. 1647–1696 ) , republican administrator and Particular Baptist preacher , came of a Gloucestershire family and was a cousin of Richard Deane [ q.v. ] , general-at-sea , who was killed in action in 1653 . |
11 | A building to house the round table was begun , but otherwise nothing came of the idea . |
12 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
13 | However , some good came of the course — he discovered the recommended textbook , Handyman Gardener by David Stevens , Octopus 1989 , £1.50 . |
14 | Some very optimistic people thought that the war would be over in a couple of weeks and these hopes were reinforced when news came of the invasion of Normandy . |
15 | Nothing , however , came of the project . |
16 | Even if nothing came of the interviews , he could work for his father . |
17 | This enthusiasm , inspired by Scottish sections , was short lived , and nothing came of the move , but it did signal a phase of agitation over representation that was to culminate in formal acceptance of the principle at the 1917 Congress . |
18 | No doubt they had made considerable preparations before the news came of the cancellation ; it is hoped that they were not inconvenienced too much . |
19 | The whereabouts of Flaxman 's death mask was not known , and nothing came of the suggestion . |
20 | Nothing came of the meeting and when it broke up there was much animosity between its organiser and the non-attenders . |
21 | ‘ Nothing came of the enquiries I made this morning . |
22 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
23 | He watched the slim body of Samantha dive into the pool and thought that by the time she came of an age for love he would no doubt be drifting round eternity in the unwelcome company of his wife with all rogering out of the question . |
24 | And were there things coming of the walls for instance ? |
25 | No-one thought then that much would come of the idea , but just two years later it was picked up by Margaret Thatcher 's review and emerged as a central plank of the restructured NHS . |
26 | ‘ No good 'll come of the province of the flesh , sonny ! ’ |
27 | If the latter prevails , nothing will come of the encounter . |
28 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
29 | Also , they come of a class of person frequently on the move from household to household so a great deal of time was wasted by officials seeking to interview relatives who were in fact temporarily with other members of the family in another part of the country , where , of course , the authority I am representing has no jurisdiction . |
30 | When his younger son comes of an age when he wants to get married , any girl he brings home is going to take one look at the life his mother has to put up with and she 'll be off . ’ |