Example sentences of "[adj] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How strange to come across you in a civilised setting such as this . |
| 2 | limbo yeah , you 're coming together again in the house or whatever you have , a reception , and you need to go through that to come to terms with it or you can , you can need to go through that , but some people ca n't take the pressure emotional pressure of , you know , all the , hour , two hours , three , four hours before that it just , they |
| 3 | There 's a door like that to come into to have a little er there was n't a passage because the front door was straight onto the street in this room . |
| 4 | Furthermore , there are significant flaws in the use of such substitutes as Methadone : sufferers from addictive disease will commonly use other drugs including intravenous drugs in addition to their oral Methadone and when they do finally want to end their suffering and come off drugs altogether they commonly find that it is far harder to come off Methadone that to come off heroin . |
| 5 | It takes Jane no longer than that to come from Thirsk . |
| 6 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 7 | The main body of these superb watercolours is of more recent vintage and runs the whole gamut of the seasons it is refreshing to come across a trio of such shivery snowscapes as Deep Snow , Upleatham ( 28 ) , Road into Guisborough ( 78 ) and Tocketts Farm in Snow Guisborough ( 22 ) . |
| 8 | However , it is possible to come to grips with the key factors to facilitate meaningful negotiation . |
| 9 | As in so many debates on the nature and location of power in Britain it is not possible to come to a firm and lasting conclusion as to the nature of prime ministerial power relative to the position of the cabinet since Prime Ministers have always differed in their degree of command of the cabinet . |
| 10 | It is not possible to come to a clean and simple judgement . |
| 11 | All this information is related to molecular structure , but it is rarely possible to come to definite conclusions about the constitution , shape , size or conformation of a sample purely from its PE spectrum . |
| 12 | It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment . |
| 13 | Even today it is possible to come across a secondary school without any library , in the sense of a collection housed in a room set aside entirely for that purpose ; some of these libraryless schools are in the private sector , and eager parents pay heavily for the " privilege " . |
| 14 | Although it is unlikely that decomposing snails will be found within the workings of computers , it is possible to come across computer " bugs " ; and there may still be some further nasty surprises . |
| 15 | His brother Peter was too upset to come to the phone today but his secretary confirmed that Hunt , a father-of-two , died of a heart attack during the night . |
| 16 | On March 15 a 23-member grand jury indicted four officers involved in the beating ; they were due to come for trial on May 13 . |
| 17 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 18 | There was a moment , particularly at tea , when I would sense that our conversation was , so far as he was concerned , due to come to an end . |
| 19 | On reflection , does the Home Secretary consider that if someone is due to come to Britain with the sole purpose of inciting race hatred there is no reason why he should be allowed in , and that Le Pen should have been excluded ? |
| 20 | Only a few short weeks before she was due to come to Edinburgh and receive the medal , she was forced to go into hiding in her own country . |
| 21 | The second phase of Gullfaks would involve the exploitation of the eastern part of a large field of which the western part is due to come on stream in 1987 . |
| 22 | Joe and Terry had finished their training and were due to come on leave when Joe was promoted to Lance Corporal and sent on a course , and Terry came home alone . |
| 23 | The bitter weather was ending and everyone was feeling more cheerful when Joe was due to come on leave , but shortly before he arrived his mother had a vivid dream in which she saw him lying dead on a battlefield . |
| 24 | Under pressure from within the PSOE , the government continued its freeze on building nuclear power stations , and on April 30 an agreement was reached with Algeria to construct a US$1,300 million gas pipeline through Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar ; the line was due to come on stream in 1995 . |
| 25 | The offshore wind scheme , due to come on stream early next year , is currently being built off Vindeby , on Lolland Island in the Baltic Sea . |
| 26 | The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April . |
| 27 | The night sitter left at 7 a.m. and the home care aide was due to come at 8 a.m . |
| 28 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 29 | As a QANTAS flight was due to come through the following day , they hoped that Koepang W/T would be on the air before their arrival at Timor . |
| 30 | That case involved a solicitor who was a salaried partner in the first of the firms involved in the case and an employee in sole charge of a branch office of the other firm giving undertakings to a bank to pay over certain funds which were shortly due to come under his firm 's control to the credit of individuals who were seeking loans from that bank , the undertakings being accepted as security for the loans . |