Example sentences of "coming [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could mature well after coming through the junior ranks . |
| 2 | A shaft of sunlight coming through the olive-green curtains wiped out the picture . |
| 3 | Excavations indicate that our ancestors frequented the lake margin where streams coming off the volcanic highlands entered the lake . |
| 4 | but it 's lovely you know when we were coming past the playing fields , it 's erm I did n't |
| 5 | Erm , coming onto the other issues I wish to raise . |
| 6 | So those issues about ‘ blood ’ relations as ‘ natural ’ bonds have been dealt with in some grand , melodramatic way in the American soaps and are now also coming into the British soaps , in less melodramatic forms , but it 's significant that there 's a lot of concern , not around motherhood but actually more around fatherhood . |
| 7 | If the queries coming into the public relations or press office are short questions they can usually be answered on the spot , but quite often they will be in the form of a general request for information on a specific topic and it could be that your organisation has in its files a good deal of material which could be sent out . |
| 8 | The two sets of chromosomes are contributed by the two parents of the new being ; there are normally 23 pairs — 22 like pairs and one pair which , although coming from the two parents , may differ . |
| 9 | The laughter and voices were coming from the closed rooms at the end of the corridor that Ruth had christened the west wing . |
| 10 | Most active construction is coming from the smaller chains and operators like Quality Inns . |
| 11 | Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment . |
| 12 | Male ‘ sex passion ’ was either the result of stimulation from external sensations , or of involuntary influences coming from the sexual organs themselves . |
| 13 | The SPA won 38 seats with 25 per cent of the vote , only six of these seats being directly elected and 32 of them coming from the 40 seats to be allocated on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 14 | A distinctive , erratic song with some metallic-sounding notes coming from the hidden depths of a thicket had finally been identified as belonging to a bluethroat , surely one of the most beautiful small birds in Scandinavia . |
| 15 | The majestic river , bringing life from the sea to mingle with the fresh water coming from the wooded valleys of the Upper Thames , has withdrawn : it is like a very old face , once-beautiful skin shrunk and wizened , hollows and grey lines instead of rosy cheeks . |
| 16 | While Mr Major has signalled that he wants to leave the choice up to backbenchers , he is understood to favour the new Speaker coming from the Tory ranks , dashing Labour hopes that they might be able to nominate the next occupant of the Speaker 's chair . |
| 17 | And make no mistake , although this has been introduced in a piecemeal and seemingly haphazard manner , it is in effect a well thought out policy , with the strategy coming from the Tory think-tanks and implemented with gusto by their close friends and allies in both public and private industry . |
| 18 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 19 | And if it 's coming from the farthest reaches of space — where the tide of expansion flows really fast-it will still not have reached us — even though it started out on its journey at the beginning of the Universe , thousands of millions of years ago . ’ |
| 20 | Bu but basically we are , we are now going for land reform and if the , if th th the momentum from this is coming from the spontaneous actions of the peasants themselves , and if it 's not coming then we 've got ta give them the guidance to move in that direction . |
| 21 | He 's still the most unlikely man in pop , and as for that vocoder of a voice , it still sounds like it 's coming from the very bowels of the planet . |
| 22 | The purpose of this paper is to indicate — by reference to cases coming before the industrial tribunals — that dismissal of a convicted and imprisoned employee is far from always fair and that some industrial tribunals ensure that employers are discouraged from adding a further punishment to the one already imposed by the proper authorities . |
| 23 | This decision , and its reasoning , is still being relied on in the growing number of tax-diversion cases that are currently coming before the inferior courts in England and Scotland , and it has most recently been affirmed as decisive by the High Court once more , in Boulton v. |
| 24 | Now rugby union 's league season is coming to the final fences … three games to go and there 's better news of Gloucester … the Cherry and Whites who 've been fighting off the threat of relegation all season won at Northampton on saturday and should be safe … |
| 25 | capacity at Luton to buy themselves three years extra planning time and therefore very concerned that there should be no undue delay in the er authorities coming to the appropriate decisions on the planning . |
| 26 | I I listened to Mr speech with some incredulity I must say , but I did listen to what he said and if what he said is true then I I find some of the things disturbing and and er I 'd like to see his figures and I I w I I that there have certainly been er two messages coming to the social services committee in in in that case . |
| 27 | The question that has kept coming over the past weeks is : what will this new network sound like — what will it offer ? |
| 28 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |