Example sentences of "come across [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself . |
| 2 | Sheriff Crozier said : ‘ In over 40 years , I have never come across behaviour such as yours . ’ |
| 3 | Certainly I and probably all the other lesbians in BLGC have come across racism in the predominantly white lesbian movement , for instance , the idea that race and issues of imperialism are irrelevant all that matters is the fact that we 're women and lesbians and that 's the only way that people are oppressed . |
| 4 | Teacher : Definitely I have come across incidents where I have actually seen teachers pick on children for no other reasons than the colour of their skin . |
| 5 | There was a feel to the world unlike anything he had come across back in England . |
| 6 | I think I may have come across Mrs Marr , Amy , in one of them . ’ |
| 7 | I 've come across cocktail sticks all night . |
| 8 | For years , I had been reading and re-reading his novels , ever since I had come across Prester John at my prep school . |
| 9 | I am sure you will have come across synergy , pushing the frontiers or rationalisation , and although most of you will know what they mean , can you give a simple explanation ? |
| 10 | When visiting local aquatic shops the Bartons had come across Fintastic , of Darwen Lancs , where they were impressed with proprietor Paul Eyles ' forthright manner , and willingness to give his time and knowledge to his customers . |
| 11 | In the past I have come across complaints from editors that they have received old material . |
| 12 | He points out that he has come across cases where , a link having been formed between the two , the patient has had phases of extraordinary well-being and health during which his psychologist has succumbed to severe mental malaise . |
| 13 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 14 | Mary Henderson , Greek by birth , had first come across Laura Ashley in Paris when she and her husband had been posted there in 1975 . |
| 15 | It was in the course of that initial watching and listening that she had come across Amy . |
| 16 | ‘ Nevertheless it has to be recognised that there is an unbroken series of dicta in judgments of appellate courts to the effect that there is a judicial discretion to exclude admissible evidence which has been ‘ obtained ’ unfairly or by trickery or oppressively , although except in Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 , there never has been a case in which those courts have come across conduct so unfair , so tricky or so oppressive as to justify them in holding that the discretion ought to have been exercised in favour of exclusion . |
| 17 | In 10 years of filming around the globe , he 's come across Oxfam time . |
| 18 | John-William had come across Mr Moon several times in Leeds and Manchester , had found him to be a decent fellow , and received a strong impression that for the sake of his children — offspring of his first wife long deceased — he would be glad to get back into society again . |
| 19 | It seems unlikely that Minkowski would have come across Smith 's earlier work directly , but he may have seen the reference to them in a paper of Ferdinand Frobenius , which appeared in the main German mathematical journal shortly before the competition was announced . |
| 20 | Solicitors well they will know something about your affairs possibly , because of hav to dealing with houses , other difficulties you may have come across form time to time . |
| 21 | He had come across rooms with hammers hammered into the walls , screwdrivers screwed into the floor and saws sawed in half . |
| 22 | In my investigations so far , I 've come across practitioners who could equally well be categorised as anthropologists , geographers , economists , sociologists and even philosophers . |
| 23 | Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics . |
| 24 | student and I 've actually come across books now , that erm do n't say the mother cleans the house , it 's always a father . |
| 25 | You may have come across Roget as it is affectionately called , but we are willing to bet that not many of our readers habitually use the book or have it on their shelves . |
| 26 | Many children will have come across plants growing in houses and gardens . |
| 27 | You must have come across examples of this kind of thing . |
| 28 | I 'd have thought an organisation like Amnesty would be in the forefront of anti-sexism , but I 've come across sexism before where I would expect an enlightened attitude ( eg Greenpeace ) |