Example sentences of "come across [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 20 years experience in the retail business , she has come across all sorts of shoplifters , from down and outs to light-fingered public schoolgirls , and despises them all . |
| 2 | Anybody who has taught drama with primary school children will have come across many examples of magic being used as a " Get out " . |
| 3 | REGARDING your article on fuel wastage in Belfast , I have come across two instances of it lately . |
| 4 | Manager Trevor Anderson added : ‘ I 've played all over Europe and have never come across this sort of thing before . |
| 5 | Manager Trevor Anderson added : ‘ I 've played all over Europe and have never come across this sort of thing before . |
| 6 | Before dusk I had a look around and was surprised to come across several graves of British soldiers , here and there in the undergrowth . |
| 7 | . Orienting myself through a large cast of characters , several long flashbacks , and a variety of thrilling events in New York and Jamaica , I came across occasional reminders of the novel … |
| 8 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
| 9 | We came across many cases of schools using minimal resourcing to maximum effect ; and of schools with a substantial PNP staff enhancement manifestly failing to take advantage of what that enhancement could offer . |
| 10 | However , we came across many examples of teachers who had failed to tackle the imperative of genuinely shared planning ostensibly working alongside each other in pursuit of shared goals . |
| 11 | As PNP progressed , we came across many examples of collaborations which were clearly working well and which had liberated staff to work in new ways , to increase their understanding and skill , and to attend more closely to the needs of particular groups and individuals . |
| 12 | Thus it was with pleasure that I came across this series of ‘ cartoon stories for adults of any age ’ , created by French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit . |
| 13 | It was in this cave that I came across another example of Yorkshire wit : revealed in the light of a torch was a daubed inscription on the wall of the cave , ‘ J. CAESAR B.C. 44 ’ . |
| 14 | Guided by a mournful bleating , he came across several groups of sheep , huddled together in the vain hope of safety . |
| 15 | Well , this morning 's satellite picture shows clearly yesterday 's nasty weather out there in the North Sea and as we run the sequence through the day you can see a lot of showers coming towards Scotland and there 's some more threatening cloud coming across southern parts of England and Ireland . |
| 16 | It seems to me we 're also coming across some sort of Eastern influence here as well . |
| 17 | In less sophisticated days earlier this century , wanderers in the Dales were often amused by coming across little quirks of unspoken and primitive humour . |
| 18 | We shall come across specific forms of them later . |
| 19 | You will come across many definitions of rarity and , judging from catalogues and the like , surprisingly many different standards in assessing it . |
| 20 | You may also come across larger versions of plumber 's snakes sold for clearing drains , including electrically-powered ones . |
| 21 | We come across isolated pieces of information and set out to link them up . |
| 22 | I need to be able to read outputs of a maximum of 100A ( this may seem high but in my work you come across this sort of output ) . |