Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 2 | His reappearance in 2010 decisively resolves this , at the cost of making him come on like a Californian religious freak about ‘ something wonderful ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ You can come down for a nice sit in me kitchen , ’ said Mrs Beavis . |
| 4 | Well it 's a question of balance I I the forty one thousand figure in my view should come down by a few thousand to reflect constraints in specific areas , I wo n't go into that now cos it 's a separate discussion later on . |
| 5 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 6 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 7 | If we 're looking at the question of services coming together to deal with the emergency erm obviously I suppose the army and that will come in on a voluntary basis which but it might be necessary to see where someone could be authority to coordinate the services and bring it whatever is required . |
| 8 | I do n't exclude myself from myself , but I I I 'd give him a nine and I I 'd come in at a seven I think . |
| 9 | But it could always of course come in as an odd . |
| 10 | He writes : ‘ No knowledgeable reading researcher disputes the fact that a higher level of national literacy will come only through a higher level of nationally shared information . ’ |
| 11 | My experience with organizations of all kinds in many different countries has convinced me that effective value-adding managerial leadership of subordinates can come only from an individual one category higher in cognitive capacity , working one category higher in problem complexity . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 13 | The structure of courses is flexible and if you do n't fancy multi-activity then you can come along on a specialist week concentrating on one sport . |
| 14 | The planning will need to take account of the fact that the groups should come together at a later stage . |
| 15 | Really , it 's what Blaze have always been about : we want to see every nationality come together on a peaceful level . |
| 16 | These two facets are complementary rather than necessarily exclusive — an EEIG could come together as a multi-disciplinary vehicle to tender for a construction , engineering or hi-tech project , whether within or outside the Community . |
| 17 | Perhaps they would come together in a future incarnation — not the next , probably , but perhaps the one after . |
| 18 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 19 | As we shall see , there are other and less familiar ways in which genes from different ancestors can come together in a single descendant . |
| 20 | Outside of those times , there is a night-line which is on , so any calls that come into the press outside of those times will come through on a special number which will ring and anybody can pick up . |
| 21 | Well , in some countries this might be the only opportunity learners get to hear extensive chunks of the language , so you could treat it as a " language bath " session and concentrate on helping your learners come away with a general idea of the content . |
| 22 | Er for example all of us in this room , if we went to one destination , we 'd probably all come away with a different combination of things that we 'd actually got from it . |
| 23 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 24 | Lisburn , with a 13-point cushion , go to Strangford Road at the top of their form and if they can come away with a maximum haul of 22 points , will be very comfortably placed at home to North the following week , with the prospect of the trophy making its way back to Wallace Park for the first time since 1980 . |
| 25 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 26 | Even if I went onstage and did a direct rip-off of Jagger or Bowie it would never come off as a complete copy because Blondie is a girl . ’ |
| 27 | This does n't come automatically to a dyslexic person very often , and we also look at letters from left to right , but if you look at a u and then turn it upside down in your mind , you have an n , or h and y can be reversed to turn into each other , if you like , in the same way . |
| 28 | It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot . |
| 29 | It is unlikely that we shall come up with a mechanical formula — in quite a number of cases , judgments will be necessary ; but I would be surprised if the guiding principles did not lead to pretty definite answers in the majority of cases . |
| 30 | However the conservationists and oil companies both agree that President Bush must now come up with a viable energy policy . |