Example sentences of "it comes [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you ca n't con you can control when it comes but you ai n't gon na ch you 're not gon na control how much you pay for , for , for almost anything , I 'm afraid . |
| 2 | For we must not misunderstand ourselves ; we are as much automatic as intellectual ; and hence it comes that the instrument by which conviction is attained is not demonstrated alone . |
| 3 | The irony of Mr Skinner 's re-regulation of the airline industry , say Wall Street analysts , is that it comes after the shake-out among domestic carriers has taken place and serves only to reinforce the advantages enjoyed by the surviving majors . |
| 4 | There is still a creative role in developing campaigns but it comes after a firm foundation of fact has been established . |
| 5 | It comes after a national survey revealed one in four 15 year olds smokes regularly and that sales of cigarettes to children are estimated to be worth around £70m a year . |
| 6 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on such faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to come out of his two-year retirement . |
| 7 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 8 | We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage . |
| 9 | It comes as some surprise , therefore , to hear one of the men likely to benefit turning his nose up at the prospect of winning a ‘ cheap cap ’ . |
| 10 | FOR SOMEONE whose music is as aggressive and uncompromising as Ice-T 's , it comes as some surprise to discover that the rap superstar lives in a charming country cottage about ten miles from Los Angeles . |
| 11 | When set within an historical perspective , it comes as something of a shock to learn that primary education as we perceive it ( with children and teachers housed in buildings built or adapted to ‘ meet the needs of the children themselves , ) is a recent phenomenon . |
| 12 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 13 | It comes as a surprise , often , to realise that such a clause as you know is constrained by rules , varying in meaning as it moves from one part of the sentence to another , and being disallowed in certain contexts . |
| 14 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |
| 15 | And I 'm scared of the light when it comes because I see things that are , like my face getting old . |
| 16 | I know from where it comes and where it wishes to get to . |
| 17 | Understandably , therefore , people take success as it comes and rarely consider the ingredients of the success nor how to replicate it . |
| 18 | Ron and I take each year as it comes and we always plan for me to run a personal best every season . |
| 19 | In the meantime I intend to stay healthy enough to enjoy success when it comes and you 'd be wise to do the |
| 20 | It comes and goes , and many men are free from symptoms for much of the time . |
| 21 | It comes and goes that does n't it ? |
| 22 | Oh , just wait till it comes and see what happens . |
| 23 | and it comes and goes , |
| 24 | Ah , it comes and goes . |
| 25 | No , it 's not really , it 's er it comes and goes , but it 's not as bad as it was . |
| 26 | ‘ Everything flat and grey , no real joy over anything , nothing to look forward to , just somehow getting through each day as it comes and giving a sigh of relief when it 's finally over . |
| 27 | In a series of meetings with employees he explained : ‘ A slimmed down , more agile Wedgwood Group will be much better placed to take advantage of worldwide recovery when it comes and to fight off our increasingly aggressive overseas competitors . |
| 28 | ‘ Our perception of the problem is that it comes and goes , according to the availability of the salmon and a lot of them have been trapped in the system because of the lack of rainfall recently . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've had my share of fame but it comes and goes , ’ he says reflecting on his career from quiz show host to stand up comic . |
| 30 | Well I think it comes and goes with everybody do n't it ? |