Example sentences of "come [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entry of Britain into the Common Market in 1973 had given us access to a 10% repayment scheme of the Consolidated Fund , allowed under EEC rules , and it was from this source that the money would come for the expansion of the Customs fleet . |
| 2 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 3 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
| 4 | Another time I was lying in a hospital bed after a car crash — I 'd been lucky and escaped with minor injuries , but I 've always had a keen sense of drama , so I lay there feeling as though I 'd just come through the Battle of Britain . |
| 5 | These can only come in a planned economic system and will never come through the irrationalities of the market . |
| 6 | The battle for respectability led to better cinemas but it was always conceded that real victory would only come through the production of better films . |
| 7 | When boring the holes , take great care not to go too deep or you 'll come through the face of the door ! |
| 8 | There was no year on the letters , but they must necessarily come after the publication of Ash 's dramatic poems , Gods , Men and Heroes , which had appeared in 1856 and had not , contrary to Ash 's hopes and perhaps expectations , found favour with the reviewers , who had declared his verses obscure , his tastes perverse and his people extravagant and improbable . |
| 9 | For the colonies of the European empires it was not over , but independence there would come after the victory of the working classes in Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ No good 'll come of the province of the flesh , sonny ! ’ |
| 11 | Well I think I 'll go round actually cos they 're queuing up , we want to go to the grocers so er if we go up The Avenue we shall just come past the front of it . |
| 12 | He hated the dirt ; he wanted to touch nothing ; he lay on his side , trying not to let his ribs come against the inside of his shirt or his hand touch the blanket . |
| 13 | Strawberries must come near the top of the list . |
| 14 | Only change to the Bomber Command Hall will come with the removal of the Mosquito T.III , which is being replaced with the much more appropriate Mosquito B.35 TJ138 , which has been refurbished at St Athan . |
| 15 | Nor was the itch yet in them to engrave finger bones — though that would come with the passage of time . |
| 16 | Did he come with the start of the scheme then really ? |
| 17 | They need to be motivated to teach the child and this may come with the prospect of starting nursery where the child has to be clean . |
| 18 | Microsoft has worked tirelessly to implement user-friendly Windows applications which you could come under the banner of ‘ enabling technology ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Very likely ; and I think it would come under the heading of overwork . |
| 20 | When we feel good we look good , so much that is said about health might equally well come under the heading of beauty . |
| 21 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | The draft treaty on immigration , which is to be discussed at Maastricht next week , contains a series of proposals starting with article A. That proposes that immigration and asylum matters , together with certain police , fraud and drugs issues , should not come under the competence of the treaty of Rome , but should be dealt with on an intergovernmental basis — a view with which the Government completely agree . |
| 23 | The commercial use of our facilities for filming/photography etc. in future could come under the remit of the Business Development Director , in liaison with Public Services . |
| 24 | Although only the 23 Nato and Warsaw Pact countries are directly involved in the arms negotiations , the treaty will come under the umbrella of all Helsinki Declaration countries . |
| 25 | Although only the 23 Nato and Warsaw Pact countries are directly involved in the arms negotiations , the treaty will come under the umbrella of all Helsinki Declaration countries . |
| 26 | Now the commercial deals will come under the umbrella of the FA . |
| 27 | If , after a few thousand years of reduced temperature the trend reverses and average temperatures creep up again , the animals will come under the influence of a new selection pressure , and will be pushed towards growing shorter coats again . |
| 28 | All Cluniac abbeys and priories were directly subject to the abbot of Cluny and to the pope and did not come under the supervision of the diocesan . |
| 29 | THE site where a building firm hopes to erect 28 executive-style detached houses and bungalows will come under the scrutiny of planning councillors on Wednesday . |
| 30 | ‘ DETERIORATING ’ rail services may come under the scrutiny of concerned councils in the NorthEast . |