Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] come " in BNC.

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1 Bacharach and Lawler ( 1980 ) distinguish between what they call the bases of power ( or what is controlled that enables behaviour to be changed ) and sources of power ( or how individuals or groups come to control the bases of power ) .
2 It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones .
3 Martin Kaye also helped Joan to make sure that the conversation was not too oppressively silent when ordinands or clergymen came to meals .
4 But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century .
5 In some cases it can be difficult or even impossible to find texts again ( for example if the text is a lecture , or a television programme ) , but you should still keep details of them as fully as possible , so that your reader knows exactly where ideas or words come from .
6 From these observations the task before the court on this appeal can be distilled in this form : the court is concerned to inquire as to the persons with respect to whom Parliament is presumed to have been legislating when using the expression , ‘ any person , ’ and in making that inquiry Parliament is to be taken to have been legislating only for British subjects or foreigners coming to the United Kingdom , unless the contrary is expressed ( which it is not here ) or is plainly implicit .
7 Many of the current members joined up after catching one of the club 's many demonstrations , or parents came to the Royal Commonwealth Pool to see what their kids were actually up to — and stayed .
8 A full report will appear in the December Fly/Past , but some of the prize ‘ lots ’ were either withdrawn or bids came nowhere near their allotted reserves .
9 An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine .
10 It is part of the conventional wisdom of educational theory , that educational realities may be ordered according to a set of polar types to which particular instances or individuals come more or less near .
11 Here 's his best save or saves coming up .
12 Fees take months or years to come in , and quite a proportion are never recovered .
13 Eventually the Avars did homage to Charles ; their tuduns or chieftains came to Aachen and were baptised .
14 When your friends or relations come to stay you 'll be glad you bought the new carpet
15 In the light and shifty winds which Conner enjoys , because they give him ‘ leverage on the opposition ’ , Stars & Stripes came from behind on the third leg to gain 65 seconds on Koch 's America to take the lead which Conner clung to tenaciously for a 1min 56sec victory .
16 At this point , cars or bicycles come into their own .
17 On the subject of overseas coaches or players coming over for big money to coach Irish clubs Armstrong has strong views .
18 This occurred when they had their children baptised or mothers came into contact with other Christian young mums through the play group organised by the church .
19 I wonder if in ten years ' time Mr. Duggan will be looking back at videos of ‘ England 's glory years ’ and then be writing to RW&P to remind us of the lock forward who elbowed his opposite number from behind , perforating his eardrum , or the flankers who really do n't seem to mind where their feet or hands come into contact with their opponents .
20 The Trustee Act 1925 , ss31-32 , should be extended ( see Williams on Wills 6th edn , Butterworths , 1987 , vol 2 , p1267 and 1275 ) if monies are to be retained until such child or children come of age , so that the trustees have flexibility in their use of both income and capital of a child 's share of the trust fund , as should the power of investment so that it is not limited by the Trustee Investments Act 1961. ( v ) Insurance — Section 19(1) of the Trustee Act 1925 limits a trustee 's power to insure to insurance against fire to three-quarters of the value of the property ; as the trustees will probably not have any cash , the occupier wife should be made responsible for insurance .
21 ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’
22 Nevertheless , visiting hours were an ordeal far more to be dreaded than the occasional unattractive things the doctors or nurses came and did to me .
23 He stressed the scheme was experimental and said the council would review it as necessary if problems or complaints came to light .
24 Yes , there is a future for the concept of the mainframe — the centralised repository upon which the whole enterprise needs — but to say that is not at all the same thing as saying that the centralised repository has to be — or even should be — a $50,000 to $100,000 per MIPS machine that runs MVS — or 1100 OS or MCP or BS2000 or GCOS come to that .
25 When responsible citizens or policemen came rushing out into the road to grab at it and avert a disaster , Uncle Titch would leap up from behind his seat and pretend they just had n't noticed him .
26 ‘ Neither death nor life nor angels , nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come , nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God … ’
27 Tonight the Minister of the big Methodist church in the township of Harare opened it for people of all colours and creeds to come and pray and find God 's plan .
28 ‘ Well , dear , fathers and sons come to resemble each other , do n't they ? ’
29 Over at Cheltenham racecourse yesterday history was made as the runners and riders came to post for the first-ever Sunday National Hunt meeting … around thirteen thousand people turned out to watch … and racing hopes , of course , that steeplechasing on Sunday will become a firm fixture …
30 They are separable ; but in the end it is only when process and artists come together that the most memorable work is achieved : when Dürer and woodcut , Daniell and aquatint , Greenaway and colour printing meet in immortal partnership .
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