Example sentences of "come [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time to come are n't you more likely to say , ‘ Oh , yes — I 've seen a kiwi , but I ca n't remember where — or with whom ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | The days to come are what matters , not what has past . ’ |
| 3 | Since it presumably means we will not for some time to come be seeing her again stretched horizontal on a sun lounger . |
| 4 | It comes with up to 64 processors , and the T9000 version will take as many as 2,048 processors ; the machines come be configured as hypercubes , rings , or binary trees , and come with standard SCS and Ethernet interfaces . |
| 5 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 6 | Fascinating though they are , thoughts of Classic confrontations to come were put on to the back-burner by another dazzling performance from Zilzal , who stamped himself as one of the outstanding milers of recent years with a thrashing of the French champion , Polish Precedent . |
| 7 | Some powerful hints of what was to come were there to be seen in December 1980 . |
| 8 | The pictures of her life yet to come were as vivid , and yet she could see no meaning in them . |
| 9 | First to come is the Expression , based on the hatchback Merit in either metallic blue or pearlescent red . |
| 10 | Still to come is the awful Ghost Dad , basically another attempt to get Bill Cosby 's TV act to work on the big screen ( Bill plays a workaholic dad who , once dead , gets to spend more time with his family ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Yet to come is a Netware client for Unix users that will allow access to Novell Netware LANs — that will be very interesting for users that want better integration between PC LANs and mission critical Unix applications . ’ |
| 12 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
| 13 | Contrast with the grim event to come is what is wanted . |
| 14 | And still to come is Replay Theatre Company , with its current production ‘ The Zoo Story ’ , which has been touring special schools around the province . |
| 15 | The verb in a sentence such as The sun shines brightly is not deictic in the sense that the verb to come is , but is nevertheless deictic because it is part of a system which relates specific entities to reference points . |
| 16 | The view to which we have come is that the cause was part of a causal circumstance as conceived . |
| 17 | This is Come 's style : why have a drama when you can always settle for a crisis ? |
| 18 | A taste of things to come was the meeting of 258 national and European parliamentarians in Rome in November 1990 . |
| 19 | No hint of what was to come was given at that meeting on 20 February . |
| 20 | This was just an excuse : the real reason they wanted to come was that they very much needed food at home . |
| 21 | And the s the trees they would like to come was the pines and the pines because they they 've got a mop like of of leaves do you see , and they were well sheltered there , among these . |
| 22 | He was already in so far he could not find his depth , and he wanted to turn and strike back for the shore , but , like an unpractised swimmer , found that the distance he had come was too great for him to return . |
| 23 | Adjusting frontiers is historically enormously difficult , there may be two or three very clear cases in the Soviet Union when it came be done without much dispute by general agreement , but on the whole I reckon that observation of human rights is the way to approach this , and then of course the er growth of economic prosperity if it comes will actually help to ease these problems . |
| 24 | We were poor and the people who came were poor . |
| 25 | Shortage of newsprint was another link , and I was constantly in touch with Singapore , London and Calcutta about supplies , which when they came were divided as fairly as possible between ourselves and the independent newspapers . |
| 26 | The closet to Ireland we came were a few students in college , and even they seemed to have interest in politics . " |
| 27 | He tried to remember what they used to listen to but the names that came were too embarrassingly ancient to be spoken in public , even to William . |
| 28 | The men and women who came were dressed differently from those who jostled one another in the rue Sanghines , but they looked at money the same way . |
| 29 | The choir , and all about it , and the church I rather enjoyed because as as I were growing up most of the p people that came were the business people and the people that were conscientious towards that area , St. John 's . |
| 30 | My wife is sure Maurin 's not the type of man to be violent and that the men who came were n't sent by him . ’ |