Example sentences of "[noun prp] come [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days of glasnost and perestroika the KGB came under public scrutiny for the first time , much of it hostile . |
| 2 | Mr Lang came under sustained pressure from opposition MPs at the Scottish Grand Committee to intervene to stop what one MP said was sheer gangsterism in Ayrshire . |
| 3 | Thus , in the immediate post-war years the WEA came under considerable pressure from two more powerful providers and doubts were raised about its future as a recognised Responsible Body — an issue which was closely addressed by the Ashby Committee in 1953 , and again raised by the Russell Committee some twenty years later . |
| 4 | By night the solitary road from Verdun came under constant fire from the German gunners , certain that French munition columns must be coming up it nose to tail . |
| 5 | Gaston came to similar conclusions in a study of peer review , although he cautioned that the relationship between productivity and recognition is not straightforward . |
| 6 | However , amicable relations deteriorated steadily as Glenure came under increasing pressure from the Scottish exchequer to discriminate against known Jacobites . |
| 7 | With debut goalkeeper Tim Flowers in fine form , England came within 13 minutes of a victory that no one expected after World Cup disasters in Poland and Norway . |
| 8 | Dr Greene came with increasing frequency to the house to examine his patient , and although the baby was large for its gestational age it seemed healthy and active , with a strong , regular heartbeat . |
| 9 | ‘ Another story was that Bruce came in one day with Rumer , our baby girl , and said , ‘ That 's mommy . |
| 10 | Tom came over eight days before the 1973 British Open started and he played his first two practice rounds with that great Australian golfer Bruce Crampton . |
| 11 | Agdam came under Armenian fire on March 12 , and the Azeri-held town of Shusha was surrounded . |
| 12 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont came under heavy fire on booze tax yesterday . |
| 13 | With the removal of Narong and Somboon , Suchinda came under intense pressure from the coalition members to accept the premiership . |
| 14 | Born a Parisian , in 1809 , Haussmann came of protestant stock from Alsace . |
| 15 | As an indirect result of this association 's stormy history , Marx came across socialist revolutionaries from parts of the world about which he know relatively little . |
| 16 | Mr Portillo came under strong pressure from Gordon Brown , the shadow chancellor , who branded the Budget a betrayal of the people of Britain . |
| 17 | Croatian industrial areas near Karlovac came under heavy bombardment from Dec. 27 . |
| 18 | The Spirit of God came upon Christian individuals in order to create in them a quality of life that would otherwise be beyond their powers . |
| 19 | It was revealing that late in the game Jack Sheedy came from five yards behind Anthony Molloy to win possession . |
| 20 | SOUTH AUSTRALIA came within one run of a 96-year-old first-class cricket record when they scored 506 for 6 in the fourth innings to defeat Queensland ( 334 and 301 for 4 dec ) at Brisbane from Feb 7–10 . |
| 21 | GREGOIRE DE MEVIUS CAME WITHIN 250 MILES OF claiming a remarkable outright victory in a Group N production car on the Ivory Coast Rally . |
| 22 | The government of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda came under increasing pressure from Western governments to improve its human rights record as it took action to arrest the pro-democracy campaigner , Chakufwa Chihana , and to expel Mgr John Roche , Roman Catholic bishop-elect of Mzimba . |
| 23 | Jordan 's traditionally friendly relations with Egypt and Saudi Arabia came under increasing pressure in October as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 24 | Berle and Beaverbrook came to quick agreement on the need for the USA and UK to standardize technical aspects of aviation , and on a definition of ‘ cabotage ’ as traffic between the metropolitan power and its possessions , for example , the USA and Hawaii , or Britain and its colonies ( but not the Dominions or India ) . |
| 25 | One of the epic stories in the history of the SAS comes from this period of raiding the coastal railway . |
| 26 | The Bengali intelligentsia , the first sizeable social group in Asia to come into close contact with a European nation , were also the first to experience such a revolution in their mental world . |
| 27 | JOHN MAJOR came under fresh pressure over Maastricht yesterday as the Labour leader , John Smith , accused the Government of unnecessary secrecy over the legal status of the controversial legislation on the treaty . |
| 28 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 29 | PRINCE Charles came under furious criticism from MPs last night after he spoke up for France 's rioting farmers . |
| 30 | And Ackroyd comes to vivid life as a pasticheur . |