Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 2 | Beleaguered chief executive Chris Hassall said : ‘ The two we talked to — Ken Benjamin and Anthony Cummins — have only just come onto the scene and they are very inexperienced in real international cricket . |
| 3 | This bloke here has only just come about fifteen miles up the road . |
| 4 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 5 | Although its seven hundred years years old , it 's only just come to official notice . |
| 6 | Pronethalol had only just come into clinical use when it was found to produce tumours in mice . |
| 7 | Germany predominating , they also shared the iron ore deposits of the Saar basin and Lorraine ( these last had only just come into use , because of the discovery by an English chemist , Thomas , of a way of making steel from iron ore with a high content of phosphorus ) . |
| 8 | Dewdrops , on the other hand , exist , not because they are durable , but because they have only just come into existence and have not yet had time to evaporate . |
| 9 | It was sparsely furnished , for Anne had only just come into her inheritance , but it was newly decorated and clean . |
| 10 | All attempts to engineer a dialogue between the two have so far come to nothing , whether through UN Security Council resolutions in a sequel to the bilateral Camp David peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978 , or through attempts to associate the PLO leadership with either Jordan or Egypt in the direct talks between them and the Israelis from which the latter have always recoiled . |
| 11 | Both international links have so far come to nothing — the SFE link having been effectively abandoned for the time being , and the CBoT accord never having been implemented . |
| 12 | Mr Hill said attempts by Liverpool to start discussions between the two airport companies had so far come to nothing . |
| 13 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 14 | Peter Chapple-Hyam , his trainer , says that Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the Middle Park Stakes , has only really come to himself this week . |
| 15 | She was suffering as he must have suffered ; and if he knew her pain might he not come to her , as she had so often come to him , gently reminding her that despair was an unavoidable but essential ordeal , of the quest ? |
| 16 | Historians recently decided to lower the estimated number of Auschwitz victims , from 4m — a figure chosen by Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp in 1945 — to between 1m and 2m , an estimate based on transport documents which have only recently come to light . |
| 17 | The first of these statements , which have only recently come to light , was by Lt-Col D M C Worrall MC and Maj J G Denny MC of the Durham Light Infantry : " On the evening of 15 May the handover of Croatian personnel to the YUGOSLAV ARMY was proceeding . |
| 18 | The road has only recently come to Uçagiz ; the whole area emanates a powerful feeling of being on the edge of the world . |
| 19 | Chopra had glimpsed into the mind and understood ; an understanding which had only recently come to him , as his body aged and his life-force drained away . |
| 20 | The centre is family run and has only recently come onto the steam map . |
| 21 | The new Minister , Idris Wakil , who had only recently come from Zanzibar to join the new Cabinet after the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar , explained the reason for the new Ministry. : |
| 22 | For instance , the milk , which is a fairly essential ingredient , has not necessarily come from Wensleydale . |
| 23 | We may well find that what we are saying comes to others as God 's word with prophetic power , as it has already so come to us . |
| 24 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 25 | The initiative for bodies of this sort has not only come from the centre . |
| 26 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 27 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |
| 28 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 29 | 7 Locus standi ( to whom is the duty owed ) Leaving aside the question of duties of third parties who receive confidential information which is dealt with below , the question of locus standi to bring a claim for breach of confidence has not often come before the courts . |
| 30 | Will he acknowledge that Government Departments have not even come near their own target of 3 per cent . |