Example sentences of "comes across a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
| 2 | — When going for country walks , one often comes across a railway line , and it is tempting to walk along either beside the rails or stepping on the sleepers between the rails . |
| 3 | One occasionally comes across a man who is almost a recluse and one wonders how he manages to make a living for he does n't seem very interested in doing so . |
| 4 | This is an altogether more simple reading of the section , and would apply where the policeman comes across a person who is using abusive language , and comes to the conclusion that it is likely that somebody in the audience will intervene to put a stop to it , using unlawful violence ( citizens may have the power to prevent a breach of the peace , but not to preserve the public quiet ) . |
| 5 | One comes across a man who resigned his post because of the grief occasioned by the death of a son ; or another who , from disappointed expectations , turned to drugs and thereby unfitted himself for the offices he coveted . |
| 6 | Very briefly , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , you raised the issue of procedures looking at the er post two thousand and six scenario within the light of er a statutory greenbelt er at that time , and I would envisage that the County Council and the Districts , if indeed we 're all er in business at er er in in in the next century , would probably want to run a similar sort of exercise that they would be ran through the end of the eighties , and that is to sit down together , er and look at all the options , er that are available for Greater York , in the same way that they did it in ninety eighty nine , one additional factor at that time would be that er the greenbelt would be statutory , and it would be statutory if the County Council and ninety five percent of the district support on sites would be a tight greenbelt so the options would be looked at erm er in that context , on the comments that er Miss Whittaker , erm questions that Miss Whittaker raised , there is a paper that the County Council produced for the greenbelt local plan enquiry that I remember well as N Y Two , which set out in detail the various components , erm of the York greenbelt in addition to the historic title that the that the focus of the green belt comes across a variety of of of of matters , and if it if it is helpful to this panel that document was acceptable by and large , supported by the District , we can certainly put that in , and can circulate it round . |
| 7 | He comes across a flock of sheep belonging to the priest , one of which he takes ; he then returns to the priest , pretending not to be the traveller already refused entry , and this time is accepted in as he offers the sheep in payment . |
| 8 | The other view is that where the plaintiff comes across a danger which has already been created by the defendant the defence can operate . |
| 9 | Such an assumption is strong enough that when one comes across a response that is apparently irrelevant ( as ( ii ) overtly appears to be ) , an inference is triggered that would preserve the assumption of relevance . |
| 10 | When ever BBCBASIC(Z80) comes across a FOR , REPEAT , GOSUB , FN or PROC statement , it need to remember where it is in the program so that it can loop back or return there when it encounters a line with NEXT , UNTIL or RETURN statement or when it reaches the end of a function or procedure . |
| 11 | Occasionally one comes across an odd book that follows some of his recommendations , as he himself did in his plays — Americanisms like ‘ favor ’ for favour and ‘ labor ’ for labour , or confusions between ‘ ca n't ’ or ‘ wo n't ’ and cant or wont , to name only a few . |
| 12 | A developer trying to buy up a site in a city comes across an owner who charges a ridiculously high price . |