Example sentences of "coming [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 2 | The English could use these at will , and looked to do so later ; the Scots could not approach them without coming into close range of archery they had learned to respect . |
| 3 | The choice of the Waterside railway station as an assembly point only made sense if the sole criterion was the convenience of demonstrators coming from other parts of Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | Many people feel a sense of overwhelming loss , loss of safety and security , perhaps , at the news that is coming from that part of the world , and yet find themselves unable to absorb the import of what is being said . |
| 5 | has brought together , accumulated and assimilated by means of the physical materials of his art a host of desires , intentions , and conditions coming from all regions of his mind and being . |
| 6 | The schools , because of their size and because of the problems presented by pupils of all abilities coming from all kinds of backgrounds , needed to pay attention to problems of ‘ pastoral care ’ . |
| 7 | The farmhouse lay below them , its fire-gutted wing black in the autumn afternoon , a low glow as from an oil-lamp coming from one window of the other wing . |
| 8 | As soon as I entered the room I could hear little pockets of chatter coming from various parts of the audience . |
| 9 | Table 5.1 demonstrates the changing pattern of immigration in this period , by showing the proportion of the total numbers of immigrants coming from each part of the world . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly benefits are coming from those sorts of changes that come from the Health Service reforms . |
| 11 | From the mid seventeenth century the proportion of the government 's revenue coming from direct taxation of the peasantry began to rise steeply . |
| 12 | er it 's it 's about geography is n't it ? er coming from different areas of the country . |
| 13 | YOU could n't conceivably have two carriage processions coming from different parts of London to Westminster Abbey for the coronation and then going separate ways . |
| 14 | If the system is set up to compare the amounts of each wavelength coming from different parts of the scene the problem of colour constancy is solved immediately . |
| 15 | This was the Act of Confinement which forbade Dissenters from coming within five miles of a city or corporation or the place where they had formerly ministered . |
| 16 | However , the ship turned back on March 11 after coming within two miles of Indonesian territorial waters . |
| 17 | The Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) had meanwhile captured Tio on the Red Sea coast on March 2 , and Edd by March 11 , coming within 160 km of Assab , the port through which the capital received most of its fuel supplies . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 19 | We get loads of kids coming round big gangs of kids scaring everyone . |
| 20 | And what did he want coming to this back of beyond ? ’ |
| 21 | Such a view helped trade union leaders to think in terms of coming to some type of arrangement with industrialists who were feeling the pinch of economic policy . |
| 22 | I did n't suggest coming on this heap of a boat to work like a house-servant , is n't that right , Robbie ? ’ |
| 23 | Well , this morning 's satellite picture shows clearly yesterday 's nasty weather out there in the North Sea and as we run the sequence through the day you can see a lot of showers coming towards Scotland and there 's some more threatening cloud coming across southern parts of England and Ireland . |
| 24 | It seems to me we 're also coming across some sort of Eastern influence here as well . |
| 25 | In less sophisticated days earlier this century , wanderers in the Dales were often amused by coming across little quirks of unspoken and primitive humour . |