Example sentences of "come a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the bottom of the hierarchy of the production structure , where spirits are assumed to be crushed , have come a new army of workers — fresh , vivacious and increasingly angry . |
| 2 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
| 3 | ‘ So how come a nice girl like you is trailing the streets of London beating up strangers under an assumed name ? ’ |
| 4 | Despite having come a close second to every junior side in the county at least once over the years , as the senior side in the tournament it is hardly surprising that Athletico should have done remarkably well . |
| 5 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 6 | The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system . |
| 7 | Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough . |
| 8 | AIR travel has come a long way at Aldergrove since the first wide-eyed civilian passengers flew there 30 years ago . |
| 9 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 10 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 11 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
| 12 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 13 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 14 | Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion ! |
| 15 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 16 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 17 | Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) . |
| 18 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 19 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 20 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 21 | In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then |
| 22 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
| 23 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 24 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 25 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 26 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 27 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 28 | And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then . |
| 29 | For example , supposing you want to refer to the fact that the groom is a medical student and you have a story about a king dying in the Middle Ages who says the physician has killed him , tell this story but end it , ‘ Of course medicine has come a long way since those days , . |
| 30 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |