Example sentences of "come [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals were received coolly by the African National Congress ( ANC ) whose deputy president , Nelson Mandela , warned that the time had not yet come for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 2 | Therefore , if the dust ages are correct then little of it could have come from the sort of rocks found in the lunar samples . |
| 3 | All but three of the 34 residents at the Victoria Residential Home on Barton Street have come from the collection of buildings which make up Aycliffe Hospital . |
| 4 | A copy of the report goes to the minister responsible in advance of publication where the matter is shortly to come before the Council of Ministers for decision . |
| 5 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 6 | A significant part of the other third of its income has come in the past from moneys from the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 7 | ‘ The dangerous dreamed melon of the sage ’ which turned out to come from the dream of Descartes . |
| 8 | Apart from the Society of Friends , there was no established organisation ready to come to the help of children under threat in Czechoslovakia . |
| 9 | The Right has prompted the Left to ponder that perhaps capitalism and democracy have come to the parting of ways ; perhaps there is more life in the democratic road to socialism than many have chosen to suppose ; and so perhaps there are things that need to be defended and advanced from within the British constitution itself . |
| 10 | It is the sixth time the Bobby Charlton sports skills contest has come to the North for heats for the national competition . |
| 11 | An exception to this might arise if a young fan has , as a Novice , shown special merit which has come to the attention of others . |
| 12 | The patient had come to the hospital for tests , and suffered a massive heart attack . |
| 13 | A farmer from Hereford has come to the aid of children at a Romanian Orphange . |
| 14 | In the management of the Council 's Environment Award Scheme we have frequently come across the problem of schools needing practical advice and have assisted whenever possible . |
| 15 | His warning came after the breakdown of talks in London . |
| 16 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
| 17 | I was n't saving up to get married , I was n't very interested in jewellery , and clothes , which I could have been interested in , came under the category of things to look at in shop windows but not to buy , because of the very limited amount of clothing coupons one was allowed to have . |
| 18 | In July a military rising broke out in Spanish Morocco , was supported by many of the garrisons in Spain , and came under the leadership of Generals Mola and Franco . |
| 19 | In 1871 the domains were abolished and all areas came under the control of administrators responsible to Tokyo . |
| 20 | A change which came with the formation of Chemicals & Polymers was the switching of methanol to the petrochemicals business . |
| 21 | The demise of the flying boat came with the development of jets and the spread of concrete runways . |
| 22 | At ten , Eley came into the bedroom with drinks . |
| 23 | The shadow on the step , the wind in his eye , the very fact that Fly was here when he never came into the city on weekdays : it all added up to something he could n't quite catch hold of . |
| 24 | They came into the city in trainloads . |
| 25 | It was to be a good many years before Coniston came within the sphere of operations however . |
| 26 | Important additional sustenance for this cohesive ‘ myth ’ of antislavery came in the deployment by abolitionists of their own history prior to the main drive for emancipation . |
| 27 | The clashes came in the wake of reports of continuing casualties on both sides in May , and of claims by the Human Rights Association that " torture , repression and arrests are all on the rise " . |
| 28 | This ultimatum [ see also p. 38403 ] came in the wake of reports which claimed that Iraqi troops were being massed around Kirkuk . |
| 29 | Ferranti 's move came in the wake of complaints about a market turndown from rivals such as Racal and Thomson CSF — the French group which may bid for Ferranti with British Aerospace . |
| 30 | It came in the form of imports from the ports of Dunkirk , Le Tréport , Dieppe , and Rouen , or from home-grown stocks dispatched from stations in the Vexin , Valois , and Picardy . |