Example sentences of "have come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon . |
| 2 | THE Soviet Union 's quarrelling politicians may have come to a truce , perhaps something more . |
| 3 | Although separated from her husband of 11 years , Diana 's loneliest chapter may have come to an end . |
| 4 | The Soviet Union is too dependent and too much part of the world economy to return to hibernation , but another period of infatuation may have come to an end . |
| 5 | The ‘ Far Eastern ’ memorandum was a superb and elegant paper even though , in its abstract idealizations of how colonialism should have come to an end , it sounded rather like a secular Sermon on the Mount . |
| 6 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 7 | It was not affected by the surrender of part of the premises , however large , although it would be terminated by a surrender of the whole , as then the term would have come to an end . |
| 8 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 9 | Technically , it may have come to an end , but recovery will be slow , sluggish and patchy . |
| 10 | If more would have gone back then the strike would have come to an end quicker cos , I thought more would have gone back then , but all the lads in they stayed out and nobody went in to work . |
| 11 | Norman Pereira has drawn attention to four points between 1856 and 1861 at which , but for the tsar , forward movement might have come to an end . |
| 12 | The answer is that the advice that should have been given in the circumstances that prevailed on that date was , that if the plaintiffs wished to ignore the contract then they were entitled to serve a completion notice which because the vendor was unable to obtain that would have meant that the vendor would be unable to comply with the completion notice and accordingly the contract would have come to an end . |
| 13 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 14 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 15 | It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners . |
| 16 | It may have come as a surprise to some , especially those nations where they have a fixed XV to which they only add as time goes by ’ . |
| 17 | For several years , we were twins , which must have come as a surprise to my mother , then slowly she fell behind as I pulled ahead , year after year . |
| 18 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
| 19 | The honour may have come as a surprise to some , but England 's second city has never played second fiddle in the music business , spawning such performers as The Moody Blues , The Spencer Davis group , Black Sabbath , ELO , Duran Duran and UB40 . |
| 20 | Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls . |
| 21 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 22 | So maybe the lack of interest in Latin American art this week should not have come as a shock . |
| 23 | The demand for subject access may have come as a shock to the library profession but , more importantly , it raised a very fundamental issue : that is , the role of the catalogue in providing access to the library collection . |
| 24 | For the Lancashire committee the vote ( 2,046 in favour , 961 against ) will have come as a relief , and for John Brewer in particular as something of a triumph . |
| 25 | Clovis 's death must have come as a relief to Gundobad . |
| 26 | Mr Runciman said it was decided to issue a profits warning which would have come as a bombshell . |
| 27 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 28 | At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation . |
| 29 | He had read a file on Stepan and Ilya Holovich that would have come with a dust coat out of a Home Office basement reserved for the histories of Aliens ( Naturalized ) . |
| 30 | The coypu-control man must have come on a weekday , though , and it was with that hangover that Adam associated his coming . |