Example sentences of "come at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overshadowed by the Gulf crisis , the meeting noted that the multinational forces confronting Iraq " have come at the request of the GCC states and will leave the region when the GCC states request " . |
| 2 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 3 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 4 | It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday . |
| 5 | erm The more recent developments in erm women 's fiction , feminist fiction , erm the lead has come there certainly from America so that not only do you have leading erm women novelists but you have leading women black novelists and black women novelists and this erm of course may very well come , and I hope it does , in this country , but it has n't come at the moment . |
| 6 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 7 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 8 | It may be significant , as S.D. Keynes has suggested , that the chapters which bear most signs of his influence come at the end , and that their subject matter is closely related to that of the tracts entered before the Letter . |
| 9 | Inevitably , in such a well-established industry — modern-style factoring has been in existence in the UK since the 1960s product improvement has come at the margins . |
| 10 | 1-0 at half time was n't so bad , especially with a second leg to come at the Manor . |
| 11 | ‘ We need to come at the issue fresh each time , ’ says Nigel Pike of the Department of Transport 's ad agency D'Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles . |
| 12 | In this , the scene is divided into three sections both horizontally and vertically , and the idea is to line up the shot so that the main features are made to come at the intersections of the imaginary dividing lines . |
| 13 | If the video is to end with music though , you should arrange for the last note to come at the end of the last shot . |
| 14 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 15 | They function as a diversion to the eye , a focus for a view , a foretaste of grandeurs to come at the entrance to a park . |
| 16 | Well , if they 'd like to come at the fire station with their money today , barring fire calls , when we 'll be out of course , or if they see the fire engine driving round Didcot and it has n't got its blue lights on and they want to flag us down , they 're more than welcome to . |
| 17 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 18 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 19 | The warning came at the opening of the European pig and poultry fair at the National Agricultural Centre . |
| 20 | Some who came at the outset no longer come to events , but others have joined since . |
| 21 | Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France . |
| 22 | It was almost 4 a.m. when the three loud knocks came at the door . |
| 23 | The disclosure came at the trial for insider trading of Thorold Mackie , an investment analyst and director of Bell Lawrie White . |
| 24 | that neither angel nor devil came at the hour that he was dead . |
| 25 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 26 | According to the London-based Africa Confidential newsletter of May 22 , the delay came at the insistence of the opposition , which , while claiming that the rainy season would create transport problems for delegates , was in fact concerned that comparatively few parties had as yet been granted legal status . |
| 27 | The first exchange came at the beginning of November 1929 . |
| 28 | The summer came at the beginning of August . |
| 29 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 30 | A final triumph came at the Paris exhibition of 1878 , where he and ( Sir ) Arthur Sullivan [ q.v. ] organized the British musical element , and Leslie 's choir won first prize in the international choral competition . |