Example sentences of "[Wh pn] come to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adding to these the 431 children sponsored by Inter-Aid in the months before Kristallnacht , the 700 or so who came to Britain under the auspices of Youth Allyah , the 100 orthodox children rescued by Rabbi Schonfeld and the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations , and the Polish and Czech refugees saved by Nicholas Winton and his friends , brings the total to well over 10,000 . |
| 2 | Why , one might ask in reply , did Anderson never develop stories that engaged with just these issues , even when Joseph Losey , an American who came to Britain in the early 1950s as a refugee from the communist witch-hunts , could deal with them in an assignment for Hammer . |
| 3 | He was the son of James Six ( 1695–1743 ) and his wife Ester , daughter of Louis Ducaufour , and descended from the Huguenot refugee families who came to Britain in the sixteenth century and settled in Canterbury , where they engaged in the silk-weaving trade . |
| 4 | An inspector who came to Durham at the same time as myself to read Law and the Sociology of Law , found the latter course required a move to concepts outside normal police experience . |
| 5 | This effort , as far as the administrative machinery was concerned , was initiated by the French advisers who came to Spain in the early years of the century with the first Bourbon king , Philip V ; later it was encouraged by Choiseul , who saw in the effective mobilization of the resources of his ally the means to defeat England and lay the foundations of a Franco-Spanish world power . |
| 6 | One man who came to Aswan at the Queens request , was a youthful-looking Frenchman with a shock of curly hair and a slightly puzzled expression behind his glasses . |
| 7 | Though the operation of the principles embodied in these generalizations is borne out by the vast majority of the careers of scholars listed in the biographical dictionaries who came to maturity after the beginning of the sixteenth century , both generalizations require some degree of qualification . |
| 8 | The Caribbeans who came to London in the main waves of migration in the 1950s and early 1960s were not on the whole from the lowest social classes , although " the employment made available to West Indians was mainly menial and often of lower status than the jobs they had left behind them in the West Indies " ( Dalphinis 1991 : 46 ) . |
| 9 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 10 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 11 | It was designed and begun by Matthias of Arras , who came to Prague in the 1340s from the court of the Popes in Avignon . |
| 12 | The number of kings who came to grief in the fifth century is staggeringly high , and this must have had a deterrent effect on kings who contemplated taking initiatives . |
| 13 | In doing so they helped to create resentments against the Masai in the minds of those who came to power in the post-colonial state . |
| 14 | Libyan politics has been dominated for over two decades by Col. Moamer al Kadhafi who came to power in the military coup of 1969 [ see p. 23569 ] . |
| 15 | Many directors who come to opera from the theatre are incapable of understanding this quite special form of human expression . |
| 16 | It is the angel Gabriel who comes to Charlemagne at the end of the poem , just as Gabriel and Michael — the fighting archangel , whose cult was flourishing anew in the tenth and eleventh centuries — come to Roland to carry his soul to heaven ; the poem is definitely Christian , and an attempt to set a religious seal on knightly glory ; but the knightly glory has in its turn captured the Church , and harnessed it , in the person of the archbishop of Rheims , to the holy war against the infidel . |
| 17 | Hilton is aware that the Incarnation must always be the starting-point for reforming in feeling , and only through the processes of faith and penance for the sins which deform the body of Christ can the soul come to see the reality of the being of God in man — Christ : It is this ghostly love that the soul glimpses in the darkness , and in doing so experiences the reality of the resurrected and ascended Christ who comes to man in the Holy Spirit and completes the story of the Incarnation . |
| 18 | She is Elizabeth Reid , 46 , who comes to Lothian from the London Guildhall University where she was deputy provost responsible for all aspects of planning and development including financial planning and employee relations . |
| 19 | The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself . |