Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 2 | It must have come as one hell of a shock for you , Skeeter . ’ |
| 3 | More direct indications of function come with small groups of vessels having three solid or horizontally pierced lugs for suspension by a cord or thong ; these were designed primarily as household utensils . |
| 4 | New and more productive cereal cultivars have contributed their share to improved yields , but the biggest share in developed countries like the United States has come from increased use of fertilizers — 55 per cent between 1965 and 1976 , according to the New Delhi paper quoting an FAO estimate . |
| 5 | In a recent study of all Higher Education Institutions it has become quite clear that the main impetus towards Equal Opportunity Policies has come from female members of staff or particular unions representing female members ( CRE , unpublished ) . |
| 6 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
| 7 | Endorsement of the award has come from many sectors of industry , including Stirling Gallacher , chairman of Sutcliffe Services Group Limited , who says that people are the key to our current and future success as leading contract caterers . |
| 8 | Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis . |
| 9 | Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland . |
| 10 | For many people , ‘ human ’ and ‘ computation ’ come from opposite ends of their thesaurus . |
| 11 | Much of what we now know , in a still difficult and very controversial area , about different kinds of ‘ televised violence ’ and their differential effects on differently situated children , or about the effects of different kinds of political broadcasting — party statements , electoral reporting , definitions of the ‘ main issues ’ — has come from this kind of research . |
| 12 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 13 | We sent a message of solidarity to the 250 women on board the ship , who had come from different parts of the world including the Arab Region . |
| 14 | Reports on May 5 said that US troops had come within 2 km of the town of Dahuk , south of the " safe havens " zone . |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't come within three players of putting out my best team , ’ he was quoted as saying yesterday . |
| 16 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 17 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 18 | Many Christians of a liberal disposition have come to this conclusion of some aspects of the myth . |
| 19 | have come to this world of the mortals . |
| 20 | Oh yes yes oh well yes for a rum and coffee yeah , and I 'm afraid it was very acceptable on a winter 's morning , but erm now we come , we 've come on that side of Road , we 'll now start at the top of Road again and come along as far as er what I call Street I believe it 's now where St Michael 's church is , and you come to Sammy the butchers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Anybody who has taught drama with primary school children will have come across many examples of magic being used as a " Get out " . |
| 23 | REGARDING your article on fuel wastage in Belfast , I have come across two instances of it lately . |
| 24 | Manager Trevor Anderson added : ‘ I 've played all over Europe and have never come across this sort of thing before . |
| 25 | Manager Trevor Anderson added : ‘ I 've played all over Europe and have never come across this sort of thing before . |