Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] come the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 2 | At its top the uterus is two inches across , and from each side come the fallopian tubes , themselves about 4½ inches in length , which serve as the channel down which the ovum travels from the ovaries , which are situated at the far end of the fallopian tubes . |
| 3 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 4 | Out of this process come the different shades of black people 's skin colour which we see on the streets of London . |
| 5 | There was another train coming the other way on the track next to her . |
| 6 | At the visible apex of this trend come the urban disorders of Brixton and Bristol , Toxteth and Tottenham . |
| 7 | There could have been another car/coach/taxi coming the other way ! ’ |
| 8 | Out of this time came the first stories of his boldness — answering back to a teacher , taking out girls , and of course the all-dazzling displays at rugby and cricket . |
| 9 | A lady George thought sombrely , with a fine appreciation of the political timescale come the inevitable memorial service in three weeks ' time people would already be asking ‘ Barling ? |
| 10 | And out of the dark woods came the black man , leading his horse on one arm , and on the other a tall grey hound with the saddest face I have ever seen on any creature . |
| 11 | Back from the great plains of Central Canada comes the brief response , as crisp and neutral as if from the other side of the airwell , ‘ Treacher . ’ |
| 12 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 13 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 14 | FROM THE home of the original Bambaataa the chieftain who led the last great Zulu revolt against white rule comes the African Hip Hop Movement . |
| 15 | Between these extremes comes the chronic depression found to have affected one in three mothers with pre-school age children in a London study of working-class families . |
| 16 | Throughout the black night came the dull thunder of the bursting banks , the village alarm of ‘ she 've blowed ’ . |
| 17 | After the first ascent by a six-year-old schoolgirl comes the first junkie-ascent of Europe 's biggest ( not counting Eastern interlopers ) . |
| 18 | Periodically through the dust and the rutted mud came the laden pedlar , on his feet or the back of a donkey ; and from his strapped load presently spilled the trifling , precious wares of his trade-the cheap gloves and laces , the toys , trinkets and gee-gaws , the lengths of material — and , most important of all for our purposes here , the ballad sheets , broadsides and booklets that brought news of the wider world and stories and verse to give pleasure round the hearth in the long winter evenings . |
| 19 | Out of the crisis of investor confidence caused by the Great Depression came the best-known scheme of securities regulation , that of the United States . |
| 20 | He did this to demonstrate for all time to come the extraordinary greatness of his grace in the love he showed us in Christ Jesus . |
| 21 | Fringing this stunning awareness came the long-forgotten knowledge of status . |
| 22 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
| 23 | The first of those tests came the following afternoon , when they were riding along that stretch of the route , around Carrick-on-Suir , where the rail was to run near the northern bank of the river for the best part of ten miles . |
| 24 | After these heavy formalities came the public acclaim . |
| 25 | Out of that realisation came the explosive mixture of a massive emigration from East Germany and an overwhelming popular challenge to the party inside it . |
| 26 | From General Portfolio comes the Financial Health Scheme , which provides cash for surgical operations carried out under general anaesthetic in a UK hospital . |
| 27 | In the highest rank come the founding treaties , which are concluded by the Member States . |
| 28 | In the same play comes the following exchange : |
| 29 | And it could be that he will be battling his old team-mates for the big prize come the New Year . |
| 30 | Later that year came the first signs of health trouble when he was taken to hospital with a heart problem . |