Example sentences of "come [prep] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | Trained by Nicky Henderson and the mount of Richard Dunwoody , Flown has come through a satisfactory preparation for the step-up to the ultimate test today . |
| 3 | These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building . |
| 4 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 5 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 6 | But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party . |
| 7 | The time had come for a deaf person to occupy it and Hudson 's chairmanship therefore lasted only three years . |
| 8 | The time has come for a radical re-examination of the provision of services for this particularly disadvantaged group of people . |
| 9 | We must recognize that the time has come for a national crusade against pornography . |
| 10 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |
| 11 | This has come as a terrible shock . |
| 12 | ‘ This has come as a terrible shock . |
| 13 | For secondary school teachers of mathematics who have been eager to respond to the call for investigative work , the introduction of GCSE coursework assessment may have come as a rational consequence of what they see as timely changes in the curriculum . |
| 14 | It 's come as a major surprise to his friends at the training club . |
| 15 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
| 16 | ‘ When you got the solicitor 's letter saying you 'd inherited the place it must have come as a terrific shock . |
| 17 | This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself . |
| 18 | The knowledge that fitzAlan had a family had come as a strange shock . |
| 19 | His success had come as a complete surprise to him . |
| 20 | It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder . |
| 21 | It had been clear that Artai 's decision to name Jehan as a member of the embassy had come as a complete surprise . |
| 22 | The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan . |
| 23 | His death today has come as a complete shock . |
| 24 | NEIL Kinnock 's slightly manic conducting of Men of Harlech at Egglescliffe School on Friday may have come as a mild surprise to the attendant gentlemen of the Press . |
| 25 | Did your experience at drama school come as a great surprise to you ? |
| 26 | Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts . |
| 27 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 28 | Her death had come as a great shock to him . |
| 29 | Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock . |
| 30 | Tearful Mandy said : ‘ This has come as a total surprise to me and my family . |