Example sentences of "[noun pl] came [prep] the [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 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 5 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 6 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 7 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Russians came among the Siberian peoples in the late sixteenth century from two directions , which subsequently became established as the main regular routes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Conforama and Marchandise cases came before the full court , whereas the Torfaen case had been heard by a chamber of the court . |
| 18 | A decisive break from the narrowness of these rules came in the fourteenth century , with Dafydd ap Gwilym , in a period marked both by increasing interaction with a more general European culture , after the loss of political independence , and yet , creatively , by a new ‘ national ’ poetry , itself governed by more flexible but still clear internal rules ( the cywydd metre ) . |
| 19 | The advice on bending the rules came from the then Defence Minister , Alan Clark . |
| 20 | What representations have the Government made about the new proposal , particularly in Latvia , to restrict citizenship to those whose descendants came from the Baltic states and to those who speak the Baltic languages ? |
| 21 | Those Roebuck penalties apart , the only other scores from the Australians came in the first half , when strapping winger Damien Smith barged his way through two tackles to notch the game 's only try . |
| 22 | Masons came under the same heading . |
| 23 | Many of the current members joined up after catching one of the club 's many demonstrations , or parents came to the Royal Commonwealth Pool to see what their kids were actually up to — and stayed . |
| 24 | Most of the comments on links with parents came from the primary sector |
| 25 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 26 | During February visitors came from the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences and in the same month there was an official visit by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Ministry for State Education . |
| 27 | Before the union was formed the tariff against all outsiders was not prohibitive , and the home country 's imports came from the lowest cost source namely , the rest of the world . |
| 28 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 29 | The move to counter the effects of the films came as the two governments last week published separate interpretations of a two-year investigation by scientists into acid rain . |
| 30 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |