Example sentences of "[noun sg] come in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first chance of real action came in the late summer of 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk . |
| 2 | For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly . |
| 3 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |
| 5 | The winner came in the 64th minute thanks to a combination of fine attacking play from Jason Soloman and inept defending by Boro . |
| 6 | The chance for a local winner came in the second race , the Arkle Challenge Trophy . |
| 7 | A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages . |
| 8 | The hammer blow came in the 62nd minute . |
| 9 | The Nationalist denouement came in the third week of April , and the Republican at the beginning of May , in a week of violent confrontation between communists and anarchists in Barcelona . |
| 10 | His Test debut came in the same match as Gordon Greenidge against India in 1973–4 , Greenidge totalling 200 runs and Richards 7 ; in the next game he made 192 not out and was under way . |
| 11 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 12 | The only knockdown of the fight came in the 11th round when the champion floored Close with a short , right upper cut . |
| 13 | The first televised discussion of homosexuality came in the 1954 BBC programme ‘ In The News ’ , when Lord Boothby discussed his call for a Royal Commission on the subject . |
| 14 | Just at the point where we were walking , the car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | In 26 matches under Taylor , England have managed just 35 goals , their best return coming in the 4–2 win over Malaysia . |
| 16 | The real follow-up comes in the New Year , but meanwhile Incesticide collects together sundry B-sides , live cuts and overmatter , mostly recorded before Nevermind . |
| 17 | Even Tan 's timing of the mysterious opening arpeggio gives warming of the drama to come in the first movement . |
| 18 | The Dundela score came in the 25th minute when Mark Snodden latched onto a brilliant cross sent over from the right-wing by Lawrence Fyffe to head the ball high into the roof of the net . |
| 19 | The modernity came in the technological skill which went into the production of the train-sheds , the great single- and double-span roofs , for which unsung engineers solved complex structural problems of weight and distribution with breath-taking brilliance and boldly utilized the new materials , iron and glass , to construct the naves and transepts of the cathedral stations . |
| 20 | The difference came in the trailing edge where 3mm glass fibre rod was retained in a hemmed sleeve . |
| 21 | Wivenhoe 's only chance of hauling themselves back into the match came in the 48th minute when Gray was pulled down by keeper Caskey , who then saved the spot kick from Abrahams . |
| 22 | The turning point came in the 64th minute , when winger Jacques Olivier burned off the challenge of Nigel Heslop , exchanged passes with Gerber and scored a superb try . |
| 23 | The turning point came in the second quarter , he said , but loss of confidence as a result of the exchange rate crisis hit UK recruitment in the fourth quarter , although it is now starting to grow again . |
| 24 | The turning point came in the 75th minute when McGrath brought down Walsh only for the resulting penalty by Lineker to be saved easily by Spink . |
| 25 | I am told by the probation service , social workers , educationists , and those involved in the youth offenders institute in my constituency that the turning point comes in the late teens , when such offenders get a regular girl friend and decide that it is about time that they acted a little more responsibly . |
| 26 | In each of Jesus ' beatitudes , God 's blessing comes in the first line , and is then followed by the effect of this blessing on us in the second line . |
| 27 | For Venturi , an important development in art criticism came in the eighteenth century which saw the foundation of aesthetics and the rise of philosophies for which art was an indispensable ingredient . |
| 28 | His best chance came in the 10th minute when Woan 's slightly over-hit cross allowed Southall to save with his legs as Keane closed in . |
| 29 | 10.7 The most exhilarating race came in the 15 years class as the Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out a nailbiting finish with Louise just pipping Emma by 0.05 seconds . |
| 30 | Alan Dawtrey was driving a Metro at about 80 mph on the wrong side of the road before it smashed into a lorry coming in the opposite direction , Oxford Crown Court heard . |