Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] it come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you give some idea of how it came about that you in fact decided strike ? |
| 2 | The fascinating details of how it came to be are still waiting to be found . |
| 3 | STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN Unfortunately more interesting than 19-year-old Matty Rich 's film — a slice-of-Brooklyn melodrama crusted with symbolism and piety — is the story of how it came to be made : ambitious kid from Brooklyn drops out of film school , blags some equipment and funds a film on the back of radio appeals . |
| 4 | Finally , we learn how the telescope has been used to track spacecraft — there is an exciting account of how it came to be the main receiving station for the first moonwalk . |
| 5 | I expect to read a full and objective description of what 's on the site now , together with a documented reconstruction of how it came to be like that . |
| 6 | A legend concerning the London North Western Railway Company ‘ Whitworth ’ class locomotive named The Luck of Edenhall No 90 — what an unusual name — but then the story of how it came by the name is unusual too . |
| 7 | ‘ We have no knowledge of where it came from , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 8 | We never have a satisfactory explanation of where it comes from . |
| 9 | ‘ Here am I , ’ he explained , ‘ with inside information about a very good story , and I ca n't use it because of where it comes from . |
| 10 | Russia was being left behind when it came to efficiency of production . |
| 11 | But it seems likely that more than four million disabled people and full-time carers are discouraged , disenfranchised and/or discriminated against when it comes to voting . |
| 12 | Okay so that list , in fact that 's what it looks like when it comes into us . |
| 13 | As one delegate to the discussion put it ‘ The women still do n't understand what the real world is like when it comes to their commercial value but at least they 've realised for the time being that they have bitten off more than they can chew . ’ |
| 14 | And wounded pride was something that she could quite easily cope with when it came to Jonathan Whalley . |
| 15 | He told chairman Michael Croucher he had found the nearby new frame while he was walking along The Hollow ( RUPP 45 ) at Bramshott and was puzzled as to how it came to be lost . |
| 16 | Perhaps this observation begins to afford a clue to how it comes about that observable quantities can be associated with certain operators . |
| 17 | The significance of the message depends on where it comes from . |
| 18 | So strategic priorities are not always adhered to when it comes to hard cash . |
| 19 | As to where it came from , no-one really knows , and as can be imagined legends abound . |
| 20 | ‘ I know she treasured it , though she never gave an inkling as to where it came from . ’ |
| 21 | You type it on your computer , erm , say er , or erm , or other hesitation markers , that you will predict will mark hesitation , and on your scr you type this on the keyboard , and on your screen , you will get a whole list of places where this is used with the beginning bit of the sentence , and the end bit of the sentence , and all the ers will be listed down the middle of the screen , with the line numbers , here , so you can check back to where it comes from . |
| 22 | ‘ Call me old-fashioned , and you can shoot me down in flames if I 'm telling a fib , but I 'm pretty much upfront and hands on when it comes to megastardom . |
| 23 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 24 | In dividing behaviour into inherited and learned , he was not so much trying to explain how behaviour develops as how it comes to be adapted . |
| 25 | Now could you tell us about how it came about that you moved to ? |
| 26 | We 've now got a good package which saves us nearly eighty thousand pounds and to actually undo all of that and create an awful lot of public disquiet plus a problem with regard to potential redundancy to particular saving that accommodates this as the absolutely completely inane and except for where it came from , I would be gobsmacked if it came tonight . |
| 27 | There 's not a lot of evidence that the government really does know what it 's talking about when it comes to BSE . |
| 28 | They are not the only people who know what they are talking about when it comes to children and education . |
| 29 | The trouble is , pain is all anyone seems to talk about when it comes to giving birth . |
| 30 | I 'm not bothered about where it comes from . |