Example sentences of "[adv] have come [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him . |
| 2 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 3 | After that , there was a series of horrific , shaming cameos that could only have come from the unconscious . |
| 4 | The Palace believes that information could only have come from the princess 's office . |
| 5 | Pictures that could only have come from the Americans or the British , ’ Kragan answered warily . |
| 6 | ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’ |
| 7 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 8 | The invitation could not have come at a better time . |
| 9 | The timing of the announcement could not have come at a more politically sensitive time . |
| 10 | For Sinton , who made his England debut in Poznan in the crucial final qualifier against Poland last November and was a member of the England B side that defeated France B at Loftus Road in February , that run could not have come at a better time . |
| 11 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 12 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 13 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 14 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 15 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 16 | ‘ Then my news could not have come at a better time ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 19 | It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners . |
| 20 | So maybe the lack of interest in Latin American art this week should not have come as a shock . |
| 21 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
| 22 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 23 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 24 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 25 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 26 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 27 | All the same , the feather in his pocket could hardly have come from an imaginary swan . |
| 28 | He could n't possibly have come by the letter honestly or even accidentally . ’ |
| 29 | It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion . |
| 30 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |