Example sentences of "comes [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events . |
| 2 | But on the whole , pregnancy comes as a surprise and a shock . |
| 3 | Blyth 's decision comes as a surprise because of their opposition to the pyramid during the Eighties , while Northallerton 's letter is indicative of their ambition to progress beyond the Northern League . |
| 4 | This only comes as a shock if we insist on seeing Theo in terms of sainthood . |
| 5 | It must often seem a ‘ second best ’ situation , to be resisted as long as possible , although for some vulnerable people it comes as a relief and a right , after years of effort , to feel someone else is in charge . |
| 6 | Like the Pickwick , the Owl and the Waverley pen , this volume comes as a boon and a blessing to men . |
| 7 | It often happens in rapid speech that a nasal consonant disappears when it comes between a vowel and another consonant ( for example , this may happen to the in ‘ front ’ : when this happens the preceding vowel becomes nasalised ( some of the air escapes through the nose ) . |
| 8 | When his younger son comes of an age when he wants to get married , any girl he brings home is going to take one look at the life his mother has to put up with and she 'll be off . ’ |
| 9 | Intergraph Inc will preview Microstation , its flagship CAD/CAM software , running under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT — and will also show its new plug-in-and-go system , the PC 466 , a 66MHz Intel Corp 80486 box , which comes with 32Mb RAM , 426Mb disk , TCP/IP and graphics accelerator ; out now , it comes with a 17″ or 19″ colour monitor ; Microstation for NT will ship the second half of the year . |
| 10 | Available now it comes with a 17″ or 19″ colour monitor . |
| 11 | The package comes with a debugger and the documentation covering both sections of the system is comprehensive . |
| 12 | A basic page printer comes with a controller and not a RIP which goes some way to explaining the lack of control that can be achieved with printers like HP 's LaserJet and Ricoh 's 4080 . |
| 13 | A lot depends on whether recovery here comes with a whimper or a pneumatic bang . |
| 14 | Come on , let's get the others moving before a man comes with a hrududu or they 'll scatter all over the place . " |
| 15 | Dataease 4.5 comes with a PIF and icon for use with Windows . |
| 16 | It actually comes down to then , a more local area could be eighteen to twenty into Harlow , and then as you break down into the other figures , that then comes into a road and a postcode will actually go down to about fifteen houses in total , by putting your door number at the end of it , it makes it identifiable to your premises . |
| 17 | Well , Prince comes into a studio and he plays bass , keyboards , guitar … anything . |
| 18 | No problems here : Catherine Cookson 's The House of Women ( Corgi ) is her first of two this year ; Clive Cussler is back with his improbable Dirk Pitt in Sahara ( Grafton ) ; and Alexander Ripley 's Scarlett ( Pan ) comes into A format and straight into the Giants section : all are great . |
| 19 | But now , as in all good rehabilitated hellraiser stories , the only coke he touches comes from a bottle and he has a wife , Becky , who has helped him overcome the demon drink and restored him to his former hunky self . |
| 20 | Probably Tolkien would have accepted the thesis ( not unfamiliar to medievalists ) that all great works of fiction should contain a kernel scene or a ‘ lyric core ’ : to use the terminology of Marie de France , whose ‘ Breton lays ’ Tolkien imitated in ‘ Aotrou and Itroun ’ , 1945 , every conte or story comes from a lai or song . |
| 21 | Not every state approves of the telemarketing schemes , no matter how disguised they are — the fact that the call comes from a prison or a reform school is not part of the sales script . |
| 22 | He comes from a family that does not do things by halves . |
| 23 | This critique of the consequences of science and consumption culture as ideology comes from a method that is ‘ dialectical ’ ; there is a two-sided discourse that through the effect of criticism on consciousness changes over time . |
| 24 | There is no electricity and the water comes from a stream or spring . |
| 25 | Such thinking comes from a belief that swing technique has nothing whatsoever to do with playing well . |
| 26 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 27 | Should specificity be a problem ( for instance , if the target DNA comes in a sample that also contains many other closely related DNA sequences ) then this can be overcome using ‘ nested ’ primers in the second tube . |
| 28 | It comes in a block and is soaked before use ( see page 24 for this month 's special offer ) . |
| 29 | Erm this head rail in addition to white , it also comes in a silver or aluminium . |
| 30 | The food — chicken , brochettes , couscous — comes on a plate and half of it stays there . |