Example sentences of "come at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him .
32 And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’
33 Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time .
34 Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time .
35 It has come at the eleventh hour .
36 It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east .
37 The latest surge in the yen has come at the worst possible time for many Japanese companies , especially exporters .
38 He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment .
39 You have come at the wrong time .
40 ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive .
41 The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela .
42 Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage .
43 They er they used to come at the first , and I 'll tell you this and I , it 's my opinion , they got one of their own men er I 'd foxed them off , you know what I mean , to do their own odd jobs .
44 William was forced by the lie of the land to come at the Saxon strongpoint from the south .
45 Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives .
46 Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged .
47 Is he guaranteeing to tell us where everyone of the cooks is going to come at the next Policy Meeting .
48 Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp .
49 The political will came at a critical time when it was very necessary to keep the food costs component of the total wage bill ( including the foreign exchange component ) as low as possible to allow rapid and profitable industrialisation .
50 The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records .
51 But that Triple Crown and Championship of ‘ 85 came at a terrible price .
52 The decision to agree in principle came at a Labour group meeting at the start of COSLA 's annual conference .
53 In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) .
54 Er he , the family , must have came at a later date into Galashiels .
55 So it was n't the fact that he 'd cut back on government it 's just that the government came , the spending came at a different er point in the , in the political structure .
56 Dr Robat Williams , who has devised the joint charter , said the launch came at a difficult time because of the General Election campaign .
57 THE YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB YEARBOOK 1992 — McDermott 's withdrawal came at a bad time : an anticipatory profile of the Queensland firebreather leads the 92nd edition , followed by a réumé of others born outside the county line .
58 The left 's moment of revenge came at the Labour special conference at Wembley in 1980 .
59 Her letter came at the wrongest time .
60 Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open .
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