Example sentences of "coming [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the news that the IBM Corp and Apple Computer Inc PowerPC RISC effort is coming on in leaps and bounds ( UX No 384 ) , rumours floated on the airwaves last week that the first boxes built around the architecture will be out by the end of this year . |
| 2 | The evening shadows were lengthening , one or two lights were coming on in buildings across the city and the dark mass of the cathedral stood out sharply against the soft viridian sky . |
| 3 | Tina Dicks , whose son Thomas , aged six , attends the school , said : ‘ My little boy is extremely happy there and is coming on by leaps and bounds . |
| 4 | Beyond facts : the coming together of religions |
| 5 | But even as eye and ear follow the darting changes here and there , as if they were the only reality , even as that happens we are made aware that the great screen is showing some sharply outlined human scene — the easy or awkward coming together of acquaintances in this pub , that cemetery , this newspaper office , that maternity hospital , library or brothel the making and the unmaking of friendships and hopes — the experience of solitude . |
| 6 | The coming together of nations , the exchange of ideas , the forming of friendships . |
| 7 | Perhaps what they are doing at present is coming together on issues that are essentially unproblematic and secure whilst leaving the deep differences untouched . |
| 8 | At an early stage in coming together in associations , then , the first choice is almost always to make a combined plea to those in power for greater access to resources . |
| 9 | Pretty much the same sort of shit was coming down at AMS , if we 'd gone looking for it , and of course it was happening all over town at well-known locations : St Mary 's , St Andrew 's , St Anne 's . |
| 10 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |
| 11 | I would n't mention this to your chums — boys can be so cruel — but I shall be coming down on Sports Day . |
| 12 | I 'm coming down to leeds for the Man City match in about 3 weeks time . |
| 13 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 14 | Coming down to children er , are doing wilful damage and er graffiti and all this sort of thing . |
| 15 | There was no shelter anywhere , and the rain was coming down in torrents , while the mist was rolling here and there in thick white clouds . |
| 16 | Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs , bananas in pyjamas are coming down in pairs , bananas in pyjamas are chasing teddy bears , half of you will be alright to catch them on their way . |
| 17 | Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs , bananas in pyjamas are coming down in pairs , bananas in pyjamas are chasing teddy bears , half of you will be alright to catch them on their way . |
| 18 | Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs , bananas in pyjamas are coming down in pairs , bananas in pyjamas |
| 19 | The day glows phosphorescently ; snow is coming down in chunks the size of a young child 's hand . |
| 20 | Two rivers enter the loch : the River Inver , coming down amongst trees from the hills behind , has a pleasant path alongside much used by anglers , with fishing platforms built over the rushing waters . |
| 21 | In surveys of the retail outlets in Akihabara , a well-known electronics outlet area in Tokyo , the Macintosh LCIII and the Mac Colour Classic ranked in the top 10 most popular computers for sales in February , coming in at numbers six and nine respectively . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't think why we did n't hold the ball outside , ’ said Ayling coming in with newspapers under his arm . |
| 23 | People were coming in with questions on our first little bit hesitant debate . |
| 24 | I had masses of women coming in with ideas , and I would say that more than half of all of my commissions were brought in by women or contained women — writers , producers , directors . |
| 25 | No I 'm just saying it 's harder for me , it was harder to have two people tutoring me because I , you were coming in with suggestions that you know already , you were n't , like then John was coming in |
| 26 | Only a small chance that an overseas liaison Fed would know the guys coming in as firemen from Stateside . |
| 27 | Twenty students from the University are coming in as extras . ’ |
| 28 | Jill Atkin and Gill Brown have withdrawn , with Sutton Coldfield 's Mandy Pickles and Slough 's Sue Chandler coming in as replacements . |
| 29 | Work coming in from solicitors is allocated among members of the chambers by the clerk , who also negotiates the fee for the brief . |
| 30 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |