Example sentences of "[noun] come at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 2 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 3 | The first official and public indication that the Soviet Union was seeking large-scale Western aid came at a press conference between Gorbachev and Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on May 22 , when Gorbachev made plain his desire to attend the July G-7 meeting . |
| 4 | First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) . |
| 5 | The deal came at the end of the 20th annual session of the intergovernmental commission on economic co-operation between the two countries . |
| 6 | ‘ The interview came at the end of a long day . |
| 7 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 8 | Bob knew that , whether she called herself Mad Maggie or Margaret Stanhope , friendship came at a price . |
| 9 | The study comes at a time when many health authorities are reducing the number of clinics and there has been a 35% rise in teenage pregnancy rates over the last 10 years . |
| 10 | But the new Accord comes at a crisis time for the motor industry . |
| 11 | This uncertainty comes at a time when the housing needs of all elderly people are increasing and there is a clear need for more good low-cost rented accommodation . |
| 12 | But Irvine 's job boost comes at the expense of Workington , where Volvo 's bus operations were located before the transfer to Scotland as part of a rationalisation . |
| 13 | The impending civil action comes at a time when Saunders ' career has reached a new high with eight goals in 10 matches since moving to Villa . |
| 14 | The research comes at a time when serious questions are being asked about the use of advertising and public relations by the government , and when the media , too , are the subject of considerable scrutiny . |
| 15 | But consciousness comes at a price , and the price is banishment from the Garden . |
| 16 | Moreover , it 's surely no coincidence that PWI comes at a time when anti-trust allegations against Microsoft are reportedly still under investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission . |
| 17 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 18 | The decision came at a time when 1,500,000 besieged refugees in the city of Asmara , the last government stronghold in Eritrea , faced imminent death by starvation . |
| 19 | The decision came at a meeting of the new 14-member Consultative Group on Indonesia in Paris on July 16-17 , chaired by the World Bank , set up after Indonesia dissolved a Netherlands-led aid forum in March in protest at alleged Netherlands interference in its internal affairs [ see p. 38868 ] . |
| 20 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 21 | The truly disgraceful bit came at the end , where it said , ‘ Rights Offered : First British Serial only ’ . |
| 22 | The family dip came at the start of a nine-day summer cruise around the Ionian Sea . |
| 23 | Five of those minutes came at the end of the first half , allowing Hein to score the first of his morale-boosting tries for Oxford in the right corner . |
| 24 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 25 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 26 | It may be significant , as S.D. Keynes has suggested , that the chapters which bear most signs of his influence come at the end , and that their subject matter is closely related to that of the tracts entered before the Letter . |
| 27 | The convenience and exclusivity come at a price , though : £1.75 per metre , ex-VAT per day , and electricity costs £2 per day extra . |
| 28 | The dog attacks in England came at a time when the government were losing their grip — becoming very unpopular . |
| 29 | The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records . |
| 30 | The proposal came at a meeting organised by the National Consumer 's Council , a representative body established by statute in 1975 . |