Example sentences of "come [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Poetry alone is worldwide and limitless ; and even through the mangling of translation , the images of beauty come through a hundred tongues unsullied .
2 ‘ People forget that the nucleus of our side — notably our pack — is made up of players who have come through the junior ranks . ’
3 The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered .
4 It will be more concerned with how industrial relations practices are related to the distinctive logic of operation of public enterprises , and how they have changed as the enterprises themselves have come under the political pressures referred to above .
5 The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell .
6 The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " .
7 Similar support for a modified accelerator theory as a determinant of investment has come from the recent studies of Catinat ( 1991 ) and Ford and Poret ( 1990 ) .
8 The remainder come from the following categories :
9 Both animals , with many others , had come from the higher parts of the rivers .
10 Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping .
11 We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers .
12 It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes .
13 They claimed the move had been simply to bring Scotland into line with England and Wales and that the initiative had come from the big bookmakers , who would be the main beneficiaries .
14 Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship .
15 Since 1950 my influences have come from the Flemish Primitives , Frances de la Tour and Stanley Spencer .
16 They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives .
17 But the most cohesive programme to yet be devised has come from the United Nations Environmental Programme ( UNEP ) .
18 The main differences between the account of the journalist and the sociologist come from the different orientations that each brings to the subject of study .
19 It is undeniable that a great deal of important and fundamental research has come from the several centres of excellence in the USA .
20 So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death .
21 The greatest period of administrative reform in the history of the Habsburg territories had come in the two decades after 1749 ( see pp. 153–4 ) ; here Joseph achieved much less than his mother .
22 Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway .
23 John Gibson , 28 , a farmer , said he had come upon the two men in his barn eight hours after the alleged bank raid .
24 The ‘ how ’ of it occupied her mind as she stared out of the window , yet she had come to no definite conclusions when the sonorous drone of the engines made her eyelids start to droop .
25 We may forever want confidence that we have come to the ultimate facts about some physical process .
26 Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross .
27 Forced to examine the situation anew , I have come to the following conclusions :
28 It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people .
29 She had come on no other Scarabae beyond Cheta , who had brought her breakfast .
30 He must have come across the low fences that separated the row of back gardens .
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