Example sentences of "not come [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence .
2 Zbigniew did not come off the boat .
3 All Cluniac abbeys and priories were directly subject to the abbot of Cluny and to the pope and did not come under the supervision of the diocesan .
4 There can be intentionally deceiving verbal behaviour that does not come under the heading ‘ telling lies ’ .
5 The draft treaty on immigration , which is to be discussed at Maastricht next week , contains a series of proposals starting with article A. That proposes that immigration and asylum matters , together with certain police , fraud and drugs issues , should not come under the competence of the treaty of Rome , but should be dealt with on an intergovernmental basis — a view with which the Government completely agree .
6 Two decades earlier Louis XIV had put it more succinctly : " Nothing happens in the world which does not come under the cognizance of … a good ambassador " , while in the early eighteenth century a leading international lawyer wrote flatly of resident diplomats that " it is precisely for the purpose of getting information that they are maintained in the courts of friendly powers " .
7 If however each of the enterprises achieves more than two thirds of its turnover within the same single member state , then the merger does not come under the Regulation .
8 A note about symbols : the usual convention for the syllabic mark is that it should be placed below symbols that do not come below the line , for example , but above a symbol that does come below the line , for example .
9 It really should not come as a surprise to find Lewis , who continues his professional career tonight against Bradford 's Steve Garber at Hull City Hall , owning up to such an unexpected hobby .
10 This did not come as a surprise .
11 Given the importance of this area of Russia in the Civil War and the Polish campaign , the Party 's care for and vigilance over the army does not come as a surprise ; nor does the considerable military presence in 1922 in civilian organizations like the hospital and the automobile workshop .
12 Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck .
13 This may not come as a surprise to most of you , but relations between Britain — particularly England — and France are not at their best .
14 This fact is known to managers and should therefore not come as a surprise each time it arises .
15 It need not come as a surprise to learn that Wittgenstein is in his own way a foundationalist .
16 The fact that her husband was having a homosexual relationship does not come as a surprise but it is more difficult for Blanche to accept because he needed help but she caused his death by saying that he ‘ disgusted ’ her .
17 A spokesman said : ‘ Because of the current economic climate it did not come as a shock .
18 Her mother would not come into the arena with her , strip naked for combat , risk her life and her neutrality for Maggie , and Maggie recognised that tonight with a new sadness .
19 Because in some sectors the rail network actually does not come into the equation .
20 Or may not come into the equation .
21 The daughter , apparently , had no feelings ; she did not come into the picture , as elder sisters frequently do not .
22 Luckily , Domino Mei-Ling did not come into the office to meet Damian for lunch that week .
23 The idea of doing our duty is deeply ingrained in most people , and we tend to forget that children do not come into the world armed with standards of moral and social behaviour .
24 It seems a pity that the gun does not come with a reflector nozzle ( to work near window panes without cracking the glass , for example ) , but this is only a minor point .
25 But now they do not come at the end of the list .
26 These reflections do not come at the end of the piece — Palomar then goes on to make analogies with human communication — but they do encapsulate its essential spirit and that of many other pieces in the book .
27 If men trained in the learned profession did not , perhaps , scale such heights in the later sixteenth century , at the same time the crossing of career lines did not come to a halt .
28 As a consequence , evolution normally does not come to a halt , but constantly ‘ tracks ’ the changing environment .
29 Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just .
30 ‘ I did not come to the presidency to become a president who will consolidate partition or to manage a crisis , ’ he said yesterday .
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