Example sentences of "may come [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ DETERIORATING ’ rail services may come under the scrutiny of concerned councils in the NorthEast .
2 On the second point : a new member may come to a meeting quite prepared to help , but wary of taking on a very demanding job .
3 For example , a client may come to a bureau because he is concerned that the housing benefit to which he is entitled is taking a long time to materialise .
4 There are , therefore , some grounds for modest optimism that the slump in the housing market may come to an end this year , although prices are likely to fall by as much as 3% or 4% from current levels before stabilising .
5 A partnership may come to an end in any one of a number of different ways , as follows .
6 These indicate that time itself had a beginning about fifteen billion years ago and that it may come to an end at some point in the future .
7 The material that may come to the country from Iraq is highly enriched uranium .
8 When political conditions permit , for example when the commercial orientation is more prominent , the internal agenda may come to the fore and inform the objectives of the corporation .
9 It is not simply the information brought to the fore during the session itself which is significant , but also anything which may come to the patient 's mind between the end of that consultation and the beginning of the next .
10 extra resources may come to the school ;
11 Erm in my view the Secretary of State may come to the view on the latest figures that are available for him and erm No that is what I hope he will do when it comes to erm producing regional guidance .
12 ‘ But you may come to the barbecue . ’
13 Alternatively , you may come to the conclusion that there is a real distinction between the authorities , and in this event the problem must be looked at from the point of view of general legal principle or public policy to decide whether it should be brought under the one head or the other .
14 In particular workers may come to the conclusion that their real wage rate is fluctuating procyclically ( this surmise may , in fact , turn out to have been erroneous , but that is another story ) : when prices are rising more rapidly than previously , workers suspect that the real wage rate has also risen .
15 Having said that , you may come to the conclusion that you do n't want to continue because it is n't what YOU want to do .
16 In his summing up Judge Hyam told the jury , you may come to the conclusion that the young woman was quite disturbed , craved affection and was quite able to tell untruths when it suited her .
17 Years after the excavation took place , it may come to the notice of schoolchildren studying history , but by this time , the site that required so much work to gain so much information is likely to be described in just one or two sentences .
18 Knowing that these and similar things are being said , in order to commemorate past deeds , so that they may come to the notice of future generations , I have not been able to hide the struggles of the wicked or the lives of those who have lived righteously , even in much uncultivated speech .
19 So , it may come to the point where I ahve to offload three tickets for the Kop ( watch this space ) .
20 Other possible approaches that may come to the rescue include interactive video , expert systems ( a form of ‘ machine intelligence ’ ) , and the use by tutors of authoring systems to produce at speed specific , computer-based ‘ lessons ’ made up of text , graphics , and self-assessment questions .
21 The growth of wheat , the birth of a lamb , the movement of clouds , put him in awe of nature : the locomotive he sees as man 's response : the switch and throttle are his magic wands … the girl may come to the science lesson with a less eager curiosity than the boy , but she too will need to feel at home with machinery .
22 Nosebleeds may come with the coryza , with fear or a headache when the head is congested , hot and full .
23 They need to be motivated to teach the child and this may come with the prospect of starting nursery where the child has to be clean .
24 Real travellers will have discovered that most taxi drivers have only a cursory grasp of English so it may come as a surprise to learn that foreign cabbies ‘ drive at breakneck speed ’ while talking eloquently of ‘ local proverbs and giving handy hints about what to buy in the local market . ’
25 The conclusions may come as a surprise .
26 It may come as a surprise to realise that the press have a right to cover hearings , although they may not , in any way , identify the children who are the subject of those hearings .
27 ‘ It may come as a surprise to you , Marron , but that includes you .
28 It may come as a surprise to learn that in the last years of the twentieth century there is still a part of one of Europe 's most enlightened democracies where women can not vote .
29 After all the cutbacks and retrenchment over the last decade or so , this may come as a surprise to you and has certainly caused us to reassess the way we approach our planning .
30 The picture of an old man in the sky is not taught by any of the great religions — yet this may come as a surprise to many people today .
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