Example sentences of "it comes " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It comes down to applying a judgement based on the background knowledge we 've acquired from 30 years of monitoring and reporting human rights ’ . |
| 2 | This is a passage about The Slave Ship , painted by the artist in 1840 ; it comes from Modern Painters . |
| 3 | It comes from a book on Tintoretto by Hans Tietze ( the references are left out ) . |
| 4 | When it comes to acting people will always say ‘ Do n't — you 're going to get hurt ’ , and of course you wo n't believe them . |
| 5 | But when it comes down to concrete moral judgements and commitments , such abstractions will be found interpreted in opposing ways . |
| 6 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 7 | None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver . |
| 8 | But to us it comes as echo , shadow . |
| 9 | I know from where it comes and where it wishes to get to . |
| 10 | On the one hand it makes no demands , he wrote , on the other it is the vitriol which corrodes everything with which it comes into contact , the Gorgon which turns to stone all who gaze upon it . |
| 11 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 12 | When it comes to silver-plated cutlery there are just as many confusing statements coming at the caterer . |
| 13 | WHAT constitutes value for money when it comes to food and drink ? |
| 14 | On average , Butler and his staff cook for 800 people a day and all the chefs have an input when it comes to menu suggestions . |
| 15 | ‘ You can buy some special stuff which freezes it so it comes off more easily . |
| 16 | An incomplete or sloppy check carried out on the canopy can be lethal , because if it comes off it is a matter of luck whether it hits or misses the tail . |
| 17 | In very high winds it is usually better to deliberately let the glider swing into wind so that it comes to a stop facing directly into wind . |
| 18 | Because the ‘ prig ’ has to be nailed , it comes as no surprise to find that electronic tagging seems set to join the introduction of ID cards as a means of controlling the ‘ dangerous classes ’ , for as many anthropologists have shown , the concept of movement itself is possessed of dangerous ambiguity and prevents easy classification . |
| 19 | Will they harbour some listed men here , if it comes to it ? |
| 20 | ‘ A stab in the heart leaves a hole , ’ says the proverb of a people Leonard refers to as ‘ professionals ’ when it comes to suffering and loss ; this trauma was one in which Leonard and his sister grew up . |
| 21 | Whether this is the result of oppressive criticism by his school-teachers or family , or whether it comes from a reaction to the finer-than-fine scholarship visible in some branches of Judaism ( which counts letters and finds significance in the smallest linguistic minutiae ) , is not certain . |
| 22 | Computers have a machine-code into which instructions on the program are translated , a code which is a kind of computational ‘ bottom line ’ — a language that does not require a further interpretive step because it comes complete with its own interpretation . |
| 23 | That is , it is open to us to deliberate about the light that this fact throws on the person 's character ; but deliberation is not open to us when it comes to parsing the sentence . |
| 24 | In other words , when it comes to an attempt to understand how someone is likely to respond to a stimulus , a description of the stimulus in terms of its simple physical dimensions is not going to be of any value . |
| 25 | ‘ Other juniors are n't on the same planet as Joanne , when it comes to commitment . |
| 26 | Again it will be they who will become the cutting edge when it comes to the readiness of woodland owners to offer the use of their woods and premises for other business . |
| 27 | The second solution , which contains hydrogen peroxide , is stabilised so that it will not liberate oxygen until it comes into contact with an alkali . |
| 28 | Much of the judgement used in choosing your veneers is instinctive , based on comparing different samples ; it comes from familiarity with woods and an innate colour sense . |
| 29 | When it comes to choosing which machine to buy I would suspect that our requirements would be rather different from your own . |
| 30 | So when the cry is heard again just before the curtain falls it comes as a final appeal for help . |