Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] came [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was going to explain , too , how the milk came in glass bottles on a cart pulled by a brown horse , and how sometimes the horse left steaming heaps of brown , oval-shaped droppings in the road which people ran out to scoop up with coal shovels and take for their vegetable plots . |
| 2 | Their Lordships are both surprised and disappointed that , right up to the time when this appeal was heard by the Board , no information has been forthcoming to explain how the addendum came into existence and came to be typed , or whether this further statement was sought by the investigating authority or volunteered by the witness . |
| 3 | It is , of course , vital to confirm that the information is as complete as possible — is there an older member who remembers how the group came into being ? ( assuming the present leader does not ) , and so on . |
| 4 | Since 1979 , when the Government came to power , coal imports have increased from 4 million tonnes to 19 millions tonnes , an increase of 346 per cent. , which has had the effect of wiping out the coal fields of south Wales , damaging our balance of payments , costing the taxpayer £8,500 for every one of the tens of thousands of unemployed miners , and making us dreadfully dependent on foreign supplies . |
| 5 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 6 | Will he now give us the figures for the whole period since 1979 , when the Government came to office ? |
| 7 | And the Government had ruled that planning applications made before July 1988 ( the date when the directive came into operation ) did not need EIAs . |
| 8 | This right has been used by councils to prevent 6,169 old people buying their council homes since January 1987 when the rule came into force as a result of a government defeat in the Lords . |
| 9 | There could hardly be more fundamental mysteries than the reasons why the Universe came into existence , how life began on planet Earth , and so on . |