Example sentences of "[noun pl] came [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books came from the central library in Salisbury by the train load . |
| 2 | But anthropologists proved his theory was wrong ; the islanders came from the western Pacific . |
| 3 | Production rose with population , too : between 1880 and 1912 4 million more acres came under the main food crops . |
| 4 | Many of the speakers came from a local government background , having spent years in social services or as councillors . |
| 5 | Soon after 9 p.m. rally drivers came upon an unexpected road hazard as they steered into the narrow twisting lane — a barricade of wooden benches and almost a dozen seated householders ! |
| 6 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 7 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 8 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 9 | The words came on a husky out-breath . |
| 10 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 11 | The last words came in a sardonic tone . |
| 12 | His last words came in a soft murmur as he stepped across the path to clasp her arm and swing her round to face him . |
| 13 | The words came in a curt manner . |
| 14 | It was quite an exciting and exacting task to work out the meaning of basic Christian terms , for in Burmese almost all the abstract nouns and religious words came from the religious language of Buddhism . |
| 15 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 16 | Man 's early faith in the original ‘ god ’ forerunners came from the apparent success which on some occasions appeared to attend the involvement of them in the troubles that beset him . |
| 17 | As the two fish trades came under the same livery company , they may be considered as one ; grocers , bakers and haberdashers came next with a median of £26.13s. 4d. , closely followed by the dyers on £25 . |
| 18 | If the key role in opposing James 's pro-Catholic policies came from the Anglican establishment , and in particular from the clergy , how did they justify doing this , given their professed attachment to the principles of non-resistance and passive obedience ? |
| 19 | Of course , all theatrical activities came to an abrupt halt ; but Guthrie was not prepared to accept what seemed like being the total demise of Sadler 's Wells Opera , and proposed sending a small touring group of the company round the provinces and he offered me a small contract . |
| 20 | The Billy Graham organisation used to estimate that only ten per cent of their crowds came as a direct result of advertising and , generally speaking , I find that by itself it is the least cost-effective way of marketing events ; the most effective being personal invitation . |
| 21 | As Keynes pointed out , the Treasury 's opposition to planning for post-war full employment was a lost cause , because when post-war plans came under the political spotlight the Labour members of the government would undoubtedly press for an expansionist policy . |
| 22 | News of the changed disposal plans came in an internal University memo leaked to The Guardian newspaper . |
| 23 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
| 24 | Another view of the need to rebuild British cities came from an old school : the garden city movement . |
| 25 | The Russians came among the Siberian peoples in the late sixteenth century from two directions , which subsequently became established as the main regular routes . |
| 26 | THE FIRST big wave of Russians came after the 1967 war , when Zionist feelings were awakened by Israel 's six day victory and Soviet support for the Arabs . |
| 27 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 28 | In 1981 a report to the European Parliament by P. de Keersmaeker of the European Commission expressed wholehearted support for the principle of a fixed link , and in the same year reports based on consultations with the Council of Europe 's Conference of Local and Regional Authorities came to a similar conclusion both about the fixed link and other gaps in the European network of trunk communications . |
| 29 | At all events , when the Conforama and Marchandise cases came before the European Court of Justice , Mr. Advocate General W. van Gerven ( who had also been Advocate General in the Torfaen case ) urged caution upon the European Court . |
| 30 | The Conforama and Marchandise cases came before the full court , whereas the Torfaen case had been heard by a chamber of the court . |