Example sentences of "come at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The convenience and exclusivity come at a price , though : £1.75 per metre , ex-VAT per day , and electricity costs £2 per day extra . |
| 2 | I hope that the inquiry will consider all those aspects , because the things that we all desire come at a price . |
| 3 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 4 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 5 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 6 | ITN 's cash problems have come at a time when news is more in demand than ever |
| 7 | We are naturally disappointed that substantial catastrophe losses have come at a time when the pace of our underlying recovery is accelerating , but we are confident that the improvement in our performance is soundly based and will continue to show through as strong management action proves increasingly effective . ’ |
| 8 | The disappointing results of this survey come at a time when the second WHO review of its Health for All policy concludes that ‘ the implementation of strategies to achieve those aims has in many cases slowed down ’ . |
| 9 | Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks . |
| 10 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 11 | Bob knew that , whether she called herself Mad Maggie or Margaret Stanhope , friendship came at a price . |
| 12 | The idea came at a school council meeting and members of the fours bands , Euphoria , Affected , Jesse 's Hat Collection and Necro-Cannibal Bloodfeast , all Bohunt pupils , had been practising hard . |
| 13 | For instance , in Kenya we came at a herd of elephants fast and low — bang ! |
| 14 | The Gloucester rugby men were weekend winners too … they beat Nottingham by nineteen points to three at Kingsholm … but victory came at a cost … a serious injury to hooker John Hawker |
| 15 | The first official and public indication that the Soviet Union was seeking large-scale Western aid came at a press conference between Gorbachev and Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on May 22 , when Gorbachev made plain his desire to attend the July G-7 meeting . |
| 16 | The proposal came at a meeting organised by the National Consumer 's Council , a representative body established by statute in 1975 . |
| 17 | The decisions came at a meeting of a sub-committee of the highways committee . |
| 18 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 19 | The warning came at a meeting with Scottish Social Work Minister Lord Fraser during the associations 's annual conference in Inverness . |
| 20 | The decision came at a meeting of the new 14-member Consultative Group on Indonesia in Paris on July 16-17 , chaired by the World Bank , set up after Indonesia dissolved a Netherlands-led aid forum in March in protest at alleged Netherlands interference in its internal affairs [ see p. 38868 ] . |
| 21 | The support given to Vera Coppard and her family by the Quakers came at a point when the Jewish organisations in Berlin and Vienna were reduced almost to the point of impotence . |
| 22 | Anselm had known Hugh as papal legate in France when he was abbot of Bec , but his close association with him came at a moment when he was in a very perplexing situation . |
| 23 | This kind of move came at a time when Tetley 's , along with other arms of Allied Breweries , espoused and encouraged a culture of well-informed and caring in-house designers . |
| 24 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
| 25 | His historic speech at Harvard University on June 5 , 1947 , came at a time when it was increasingly clear that there was a fundamental imbalance between the US economy , which had emerged bigger and stronger from the war , and the destitution of Europe . |
| 26 | Ironically this change in public opinion came at a time when Arab terrorists were letting off bombs in Paris , which French people thought quite terrible . |
| 27 | In reflection , Nicholson remembers that apart from the task of writing a film about a new subject on which there was very little in the way of written research material , it also came at a time when he was going through his divorce . |
| 28 | The dog attacks in England came at a time when the government were losing their grip — becoming very unpopular . |
| 29 | The seminar came at a time when the contribution of women in the Church promised to become an increasingly important part of the decision-making process in the life of the Church ’ , the editorial continued . |
| 30 | His moment came at a time when shoring up the old seemed all that mattered or all that anyone could think of . |