Example sentences of "come to the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 2 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 3 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 4 | Gradually the port wing tip fell on the ground and we came to the gentlest of stops some 70/80 yards from the engineering wing perimeter . |
| 5 | And then , as you would surely expect if not demand , we come to the greatest of all operettas , ‘ Die Fledermaus ’ ( 1874 ) — starting with the famous overture , and going on to excerpts from the party scene of Act II . |
| 6 | Here we come to the first of many possible variations , in that this change of gain may be continuously variable or switched between two different values . |
| 7 | We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] . |
| 8 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |
| 9 | And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it . |