Example sentences of "comes [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she sat there for about 'arf an 'our , listenin' to the singin' and so forth , and then , just as she was beginnin' to get a bit bored , this Billy Graham comes on to the platform . |
| 2 | The trespasser comes on to the premises at his own risk . |
| 3 | Alright , when the supply comes on to the market , you know , it may be nine months down the road if it 's an annual crop , if you 're looking at something like erm , production of cocoa , right now , a cocoa tree takes about nine years to mature , therefore alright , you 're not going to know what prices are going to be nine years down the road , you 're going to have to base your production decisions and therefore your output decisions on what prices are nearly a decade , nearly a decade ago . |
| 4 | When something of that kind comes on to the market it creates a storm . |
| 5 | And as the years go by and the father retires the son comes on to the boat , so it is really a very family thing , the lifeboat service . |
| 6 | A man comes on to the terrace while I 'm eating breakfast . |
| 7 | Just a fraction of the household and commercial waste that comes in to the landfill site at Oakley Wood in Oxfordshire every day . |
| 8 | Greet the interviewee as she/he comes in to the room . |
| 9 | Lucker comes down to the water 's edge . |
| 10 | Again , it comes down to the concept of institutionalisation and the harmful effects on mentally handicapped people living with large numbers of other handicapped people as opposed to integrating freely with the community at large . |
| 11 | Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality . |
| 12 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 13 | So the next night this m the man comes down to the shore and here was two men with a rowing boat . |
| 14 | And that comes down to the individual . |
| 15 | Essentially , creativity , as Coleridge sees it , comes down to the ability to perceive the whole picture . |
| 16 | I think the basic problem is erm it goes back further than that and it comes down to the organisation that my colleague here belongs to . |
| 17 | Bullfighting may be about grace and beauty , a poetic dance between man and beast , but it all comes down to the kill . |
| 18 | erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in . |
| 19 | People do n't take up what they are entitled to , which comes down to the way the government presents the information . |
| 20 | The choice of where to hold the party usually comes down to the home or a local hall . |
| 21 | It all comes down to the quality of your trash . |
| 22 | Cinderella , oh I do n't know when that one 's coming down if it comes down to the pictures we 'll go and watch it , I 'll promise you that , right , who 's nicked my cup ? |
| 23 | Perhaps the lack of team success comes down to the fact that only three Minor Counties had home ties . |
| 24 | Everything comes down to the fact that each one of us has to look out for ourselves , because nobody else cares a damn . |
| 25 | So , in the end ( or should one say ‘ at the beginning' ? ) it comes down to the health of the living soil . |
| 26 | In places it almost comes down to the ground . ’ |
| 27 | Clearly , part of that under-reporting comes down to the fear of victimisation . |
| 28 | He often comes down to the evening meal drained and exhausted after a day of writing his name at the bottom of letters like these . |
| 29 | It comes down to the clowning , the pratfalls , the catcalls , |
| 30 | We have a situation where the landowner is going to have to sell land relatively cheaply , in order that the land then , the land prices do not reflect too horrendously when it comes through to the price that has to be paid by the person who 's going to occupy the property ; either in terms of a letting figure or of something which is going to be an , effectively a mortgage figure . |