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

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1 Don the staff comment one could come under the national curriculum levels if you
2 Although it is still legal to resort to the matches this season , provided the job is done properly , a late harvest followed by a wet autumn could come as a nasty reminder that cereal-growing is not the doddle many would have us believe .
3 Perms , interestingly , do n't vary in price quite as much but check before you go in clutching your pennies , if the perm includes the cut and blow dry as well , otherwise that could come as an expensive little shock .
4 The final crunch could come with the full moon on Thursday — but you will be well able to handle any problems that may arise .
5 Now , er if we could come on a little bit , erm , tt when was it that you became sort of officially politically active , when you actually joined er joined the party ?
6 They did n't happen often , and could come at the unlikeliest times and places .
7 I think all these developments will be painful but could come to a good end : the genetic bad luck of a very few may , eventually , be helped by many in that general health insurance and tough anti-discrimination laws could become reality .
8 The author was , for example , frustrated for some time by a field name written in 1736 as Abboxry Land , and could come to no sensible conclusion as to what was meant .
9 These purposeful wanderings in nearby London commons were the nearest he could come to the idealized world he had found in The Amateur Poacher .
10 Although this grant to Ely , dated 1022 , is a likely forgery , its witness list could come from a genuine document of 1023 , as Cnut may have visited the monastery on his return to deal with trouble involving the abbot , who had recently taken his case to Rome .
11 In sum , therefore , an attendance rate of 90% does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent ; the missing 10% could come from a small number of pupils with lengthy absences or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences .
12 An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week .
13 The input for such a reflex could come from a single class of broadly tuned vertical orientation detectors .
14 The immediate challenge to present Western labour standards , he said , could come from the former communist states , where unemployment was growing rapidly , creating a pool of accessible labour willing to accept low pay .
15 Melton Park would have a very easy passage in the Members ' , but may instead go for the Restricted , where his main opposition could come from The Grey Boreen .
16 I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia .
17 Eye-witnesses believe it could come from the same family of beasts as Ogopogo , Tazama and Pohengamok , who all dwelt in lakes throughout British Columbia .
18 ‘ It is hard to believe that it could come in the Grand National , ’ Gaselee said .
19 A new opportunity for such changes could come in the current review of the board by its chairman , Andrew Large .
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