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Sentence Examples Fairytales are hard to come by, especially in New York these days, but the gift of hope brings a magic of its own. Georgie rode out to visit with Tess, though I'm sure she'll come by to visit you and Olivia, as well. The majority of cost increases come by way of contracted pay and benefit hikes. It's not easy to discern a business model when hard information is difficult to come by. There are too many peculiarities and quirks of the hardware, and drivers are hard to come by. Genuine patriotism is a tough commodity to come by in these more jaded, jingoistic times. Apprenticeships were hard to come by and for most of his classmates the only work available was in England. Though official figures are difficult to come by, reports estimate that at least 200 people were killed. Supplies were hard to come by and she had to wear the burqa in the streets and a headscarf and veil while operating. Captive-bred birds are easy to come by now, but the time needed to look after and fly a bird is still a rare commodity. The ones who were sick should really have come by ambulance and the others shouldn't have come at all. If you're nearby and able to venture out of doors, however, you might want to come by this conference. Jobs are not easy to come by and if you have a mortgage and a family to support, you cannot afford to take many risks. In some ways, after-school childcare is harder to come by than it is during holidays. Surely the good folk of Chapelfields would sell inheritances for a cheap, efficient service, where trains come by every three minutes. In the past they've also had genuine stag and real ivory, both of which are now very hard to come by. Cheap laughs were hard to come by, and the crashing economy seemed to be turning all Hong Kong films into horror movies. The server will come by to grind some fresh horseradish into the cocktail sauce, which can't hurt. Sponsorship in a recession is not easy to come by, but he appears to be managing and this piece of good fortune will undoubtedly help. Because the perps have generally kept their faces covered and worn gloves, substantial clues have been difficult to come by. Show More Sentences A combine harvester requires only one operator, which is a big consideration nowadays, when labour is hard to come by. Not only are some of these operating as local businesses, they are also bringing jobs and wealth to areas that find both hard to come by. She took some art materials for the children, knowing that they are hard to come by in the detention centres. Apparently good knife-grade steel was hard to come by, and I had some of the best. Outside Florida, Key limes can be hard to come by, except in specialty produce markets when the fruit is in season, from May through August. Everyone is welcome to come by and have a free blood pressure check with the duty nurse. As with most children's books, dust wrappers can be difficult to come by in Very Good or Fine condition. Nevertheless, in many cases where word order is fixed, a semantic explanation is difficult to come by. Visitors often come by to chat early in the morning while he carefully skims fine, white fleur de sel. At a time when salt was crucial for preserving as well as flavouring food, it was also extremely hard to come by. Even woeful diction can be excused, since, in the mad rush to expand radio, good announcers were not easy to come by. Not only are they horrendously expensive, but they are ridiculously easy to come by and are designed to encourage us all to spend more. One says that our rights come by virtue of our humanity because we are created in God's image and likeness. He never discounted the romantic element but at the same time looked for a completeness that can come by taking the rough with the smooth. Both bask in a kind of bluesy dirty rock n roll that really is hard to come by these days. The one problem I have with the skeptical argument is that it often assumes proof is an easy thing to come by. This is a dynamic landscape, where the changes come by the day, by the hour. I go over to the first tee, to the putting green there, and wait for him to come by. Accurate statistics are hard to come by, especially in a country where social taboos and threats keep many victims silent. Darwin also learned that locals could tell from which islands giant tortoises had come by the shapes of the reptiles' shells. Show More Sentences The snow was up to the tires and the salt truck had not come by to salt the roads. The trash cans were set out waiting for the garbage man to come by and collect them tomorrow morning. Boys from my class would take a break from intramural basketball practice and come by and point and laugh. At a time when radio playlists are tighter and any kind of exposure is hard to come by, 365,000 copies of my work now will be heard. Stadiums sit half-empty, scalpers are going broke, and tickets are easy to come by. After quickly getting among the Conference top scorers this season, goals have been hard to come by for Mullin in recent weeks. This young man has at his command expertise that to these old and experienced eyes is hard to come by. There is usually only a very light pressure to overcome, and the precise target shooter wants the exact instant of the shot to come by surprise. There's a gripping tension to it that's hard to come by in comics designed to be all-ages entertainment. Scores were getting harder to come by as both sides tightened up their game and Tinnahinch began to tire after their early hectic pace. For the first time in the match it was game on, the hurling was frantic and well contested with scores hard to come by. Most current visitors come by car, though a good many of these vehicles are also towing boats. And when I come by to see her, she's all white and trembly and totally wet. He had been playing the flute for some time when he realized that high quality flute repairmen were hard to come by. When the shovelers come by, they shovel the bread, rats and spoiled meat into the sausage vats. Respect has been hard to come by for the Syracuse product, who was touted as an underachiever in college is expected to be a tweener in the pros. Details on the materials used in the construction of the tweeter and woofer were difficult to come by. A cushy job pulling in clients for a big law firm might be tough to come by if the powers-that-be take away your lawyering licence. This may be helpful in a particularly high-risk area, where premiums are sky-high or insurance coverage is generally very difficult to come by. Figures on financial loss created by bogus claims involving hi-tech goods are hard to come by. Show More Sentences I'll write a referral so someone from the emotional crisis center will come by, okay? Between courses a server may come by with a slop bowl and collect your bits of bone, fat or other food waste. Whenever you're frustrated about something, you come by here for a booty call. She had a look that spoke for nobody to come by and her entire outfit was dripping with some sort of liquid substance. They come by the dozens, laborers swarm this vehicle hoping to be hired for the day. I think that trying to find a major turning point of this rather one-sided affair is hard to come by. The postmaster said the mail-carrier would come by in an hour to take the mail on to Summit. They were somewhat difficult to come by, anchovies packed in oil are much easier to find, but I finally located some and soaked them overnight. Meaningful internationals are hard to come by for the Socceroos, which is why Farina intends to take all he can out of the Scotland game. The multi-million pound investment would come by attracting upmarket shops, housing and tourism to the town. The sides were well matched and with good defending and sharp goal keepers on both sides scores were hard to come by. It would seem that entry through the stage door to stardom does not come by simply donning a pair of jelly shoes and a rah-rah skirt. We numbed the pain of what was to come by eating and drinking. So I think that that kind of concentration, and focus, and attentiveness, is hard to come by. The Brazilian superstar has found playing time hard to come by at the San Siro, but perhaps his latest stunt will get coach Carlo Ancelotti to wake up and smell the coffee. They come by air and air-dash to the Amarnath cave in helicopters. We hope to see signs of what is to come by looking at how dark energy behaves now, and how it has acted in the past. They sit on corners waiting for some guy to come by to get the gardening done at his estate. Today, these tiles are fixed on tabletops, and are rare to come by. Pristine white beaches with beautiful bays are within easy reach, and although rooms are hard to come by in high summer, it is possible to camp on the dunes without incident. Show More Sentences New York is a mad expensive city and real estate is not easy to come by. Silk screening was at one time an incredible innovation, but today it is very expensive, and also, high-quality serigraphers are getting hard to come by. Interactions usually take place in confined settings with captive animals or, more rarely, with unconfined animals who have been conditioned to come by being fed. With her sweet smile, rosy cheeks, and wavy white-blond hair, she found money was easy to come by. Yet a troubling increase has come by way of the Black Sea, which borders Bulgaria on the East, and the Danube River, which forms its northern border with Romania. The rest remains unspecific and therefore solutions are hard to come by. The rise of equipment purchases has paralleled an apparent increase in local SWAT teams, but reliable numbers are hard to come by. He actually saw his car, and it looked like a snowplow had come by. Yet, if tries were impossible to come by and this Irish side have still scored eight in the current championship there were some memorable moments in a bruising challenge. Non-religious colonial art, which was mostly restricted to portraiture, echoed European styles and conventions although, due to the distance, prototypes were hard to come by. It is likely, though statistics are hard to come by, that husband and wife remaining together in a very unhappy marriage resulted in high incidences of spousal abuse. Between them they made all the costumes out of crepe paper, butter muslin and silver paper as material was still expensive and difficult to come by as an aftermath of the war. I asked the guard out front if he'd had seen a pretty hellcat come by him. Even though his Mum was too high and mighty to keep visiting me he used to come by whenever he were near the place and I'm pretty fond of the lad. Technology, psychology and common sense was always a much more viable combination and one decidedly easier to come by than consensus in the chambers of Parliament. There seems to be less of a variety of species now, but the cute chickadees still come by, picking their way through the seeds to get to their favorite sunflower seeds. The precise details of such disputes usually are hard to come by. Tickets are very hard to come by and quite expensive, so your best bet is probably to tip your hotel concierge generously to procure a few seats for you. He was supposed to come by last night, but he finked out for some reason. As many of these have become harder to come by instrument makers have been turning increasingly to timbers from fruitwoods such as Walnut and cherry. Show More Sentences If you're going to see The Futureheads tonight at Webster Hall, come by Black and White afterwards where i'll be deejaying at the official afterparty! If they weren't so hard to come by, they'd be a dime a dozen. Despite a degree of reticence from some parts of the Aussie media, tickets for yesterday's showdown were harder to come by than a dunny in the bush. Historically and today, most fish protein has come by means of catching wild fish. So without my visit, if Simon didn't attend, a minyan would be hard to come by. At first sales were very difficult to come by, and the project was due to be cancelled. Visiting the park by private boat is difficult because of its distance, so most visitors come by ferry, catamaran, or seaplane from Key West. Despite the efforts of middlemen and charities to raise money to provide ransoms, they were still very difficult to come by. The store has changed public perception that herbal medicine is interesting but difficult to come by. Chemical evidence of beer would prove a site's purpose once and for all, but it isn't easy to come by. The big changes come by way of the Rhino XT's new, spring-loaded hook and single-sear trigger mechanism. The Situational Lending Movement gives borrowers, brokers, and investors opportunities that were previously hard to come by. A single lettuce with real taste is hard to come by, but the classics, crunchy Little Gem and flowery Lollo Rosso, do the trick. But confirmation of that time frame has also been hard to come by. Since busybody customers may be hard to come by, staff should be encouraged to act the part of the quidnunc. Here, under the marine layer, time and space are illusory, and definition is as hard to come by as an uncloudy day in June. Casualty figures are hard to come by, but some historians estimate that 2,000 invaders died along with about twice that number of Englishmen. Bertram claimed to have borrowed the text from a friend who admitted he had come by it as an act of theft from an English library. Peter and his mother keep a nursery garden and the bunnies come by asking him for spare cabbage. Of these, about half had come by way of Leiden, and about 28 of the adults were members of the congregation. Show More Sentences Part One, Slobberers, the first installment of six to come by the end of the year, sets the action and events in motion described through the eyes of Dawn and Rory. Third World countries, where debt problems make a transactions-supply of currency hard to come by, frequently trade cashlessly with other countries. He ain' got nuttin tall cep'n some mitey good nabors dat come by fer him ever day an' caird him up to lay him down by de back do' er dat air rich man, dat air Mr. Dives. Some weekends the llaneros would come into town for supplies and old amigos like Bonney or Campos or the Gonzales brothers would come by to visit. You'll want to come by Lorraine's Bistro for a relaxing breakfast, lunch or dinner, and the Stirrup Cup Lounge is a great place to relax at the end of a busy day. Meanwhile, he asks that old friends and former customers come by and see him at Mikado, where you definitely won't find either gnocchi or hasenpfeffer on the menu. Examples from Classical Literature The blacks come by way of Boston, which means that they will have to be cockered up considerably before they are fit for work. Over this flintstone every year the people come by thousands, and crawl on their naked knees or walk on their naked feet. If they had not been miraculously guided, they would not have come by twos and sevens. He couldn't possibly have come by it honorably or without knowing what it was. Thus, if we are to come by general rules, we must obtain them inductively by a comparison of many thousand particular instances. He had come by this secret road into the actual presence of the great ju-ju. Because I am in possession of rich ore, it does not follow that I did not come by it legitimately. That was to come by and by for both of us in Venice, from the outer shore of lido. The mosque by the Dukala gate is worthy of note, and earns the salutation of all who come by way of R'hamna to Marrakesh. Success in automatic telephony did come by the re-adoption of the trunking method. Dew glistened in the early rays of light and the clear, cool morning air held little hint of the heat sure to come by midmorning. And a couple of men drove onto that south eighty of mig's with a load of lumber, just as I come by. Bruant ran the mirliton on the principle that the less easily pleasure is come by, the more it will be prized. Now I say they were honestly come by, and the onus probandi must rest upon the other party. I do not think that success will come by a pedantical insistence upon correctness in form without regard to the sense. Information about the CNP, which includes TV preachers as well as multimillionaire business executives, is normally difficult to come by. The majority of the trees large enough to be used for those purposes are upwards of 200 years old, Deans explains, and are difficult to come by. You think, perhaps, that this peacefulness has come by chance? Ye could drap ower an' catch 'im, an' I could come by the gate. He had come by Birmingham and Gloucester, and thence to Swindon. Show More Sentences The Foam flake was pretty nearly ready to come by this time. Most days in the winter, the only car to come by was the mailman. At the same time every day, a junkman would come by ringing a cowbell roped to the handlebar of his pushcart. Such knowledge does not come by cutaneous friction nor by money. Or perhaps he had come by another way to the trysting place? It was in a large envelope and had come by the insular post. I have heard, too, thou dost love a brace of good dogs and a fleet horse, and it may well be that, loving things which are costly to come by, thou hatest not a purse of gold. Residents and visitors of Sofia are invited to come by to the Military Club and take part in the sale of a pleiad of handcrafted items to contribute to the charity. They were both so overjoyed to see me, so proud to see me, so touched by my coming to them, so delighted that I should have come by accident to make their day complete! In short, the king, impatient, as has been said, had come by forced marches, and had that moment arrived with all his household and a reinforcement of ten thousand troops. But just look, as they come by, which keeps the straightest line. Find more words! 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