Example sentences of "had [adv] come [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the conditions changed to the more temperate climate we know today , so the proportion of reptiles had decreased — but there was no overall trend of the kind that would be implied if the mammals had only come into existence in the later geological periods . |
| 2 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 3 | The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop . |
| 4 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 5 | It was a sort of cabaret to the main business of the halt , which was the consumption of quite a lot of a bear which had incautiously come within bowshot of Hrun . |
| 6 | I had already come into conflict over race and patriotism . |
| 7 | News of the suspension of the conference , which had resumed on Jan. 14 after a series of delays but had soon come into confrontation with the government , was greeted with demonstrations in Kinshasa . |
| 8 | The investigators had also come into possession of what was said to be Fhimah 's personal diary , improbable though it must have seemed to them that a trained intelligence agent would keep one or put anything in writing , let alone the incriminating English word ‘ taggs ’ ( sic ) in the middle of an entry in Arabic and then , according to media reports , leave the diary behind for the investigators to find . |
| 9 | Lately Mr Serrano had also come under fire on human rights . |
| 10 | The video had originally come into use as a promotional device — a way for a group to receive television coverage , in Britain and abroad , without the expensive and time-consuming necessity of travel , hotel bills , etc . |
| 11 | Although a UN-brokered ceasefire agreement had supposedly come into force on Nov. 1 , there was serious fighting between Nov. 1 and 5 in Luanda and the central and southern towns of Benguela , Huambo , Lobita and Lubango , in which at least 1,000 people were killed . |
| 12 | Bashir dismissed the Industry Minister , Mohamed Omar Abdullah , and the Minister of Transport and Communications , Ali Ahmad Ibrahim , whose departments had reportedly come under criticism for poor performance . |
| 13 | Yes , this was the closest that Lexandro had yet come to communion with elder Brethren . |
| 14 | But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself . |