Example sentences of "had come [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she left , the Princess Royal became the first signatory to the new Napier University Visitors Book and on her departure , one of Napier 's youngest ‘ students ’ , four-year-old Kirsty Hutton who had come with other children from Napier 's crèche to wave goodbye to the Princess , presented her with a posy . |
| 2 | Mr Nick Mitchell , the head of personnel for the signals and telecommunications section , said the board had come to certain conclusions about pay and conditions for its 7,000 S&T engineers after a review of manpower and reward systems . |
| 3 | Earlier talks on a Franco — Italian-Benelux customs union had come to little , partly because the economies involved were too competitive . |
| 4 | He had come to national and international notice in June when , in interviews first with the United States and then with the Soviet press , and at a conference of the CPSU 's radical reformist Democratic Platform faction , he had alleged that , in collusion with the CPSU , the KGB was continuing illegal covert operations against Soviet citizens . |
| 5 | The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council . |
| 6 | Oleg Kalugin , a former major-general in the KGB who had come to public prominence recently for alleging continuing KGB abuses of power , was elected to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies in a by-election in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar on Sept. 2 . |
| 7 | Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop . |
| 8 | He had come across severe abnormalities — particularly of the limbs — in children of mothers who had taken thalidomide during pregnancy . |
| 9 | As Laqueur says ‘ By 1800 this view , like that linking female orgasm to conception , had come under devastating attack . ’ |
| 10 | In Iran Rafsanjani had come under strong attack from Khomeini supporters who accused him of siding with America by accepting arms from the Great Satan and helping to get some of their hostages released . |
| 11 | By the mid-century Freemasonry was strong in Austria and Bohemia , but in the 1780s its activities had come under close scrutiny from the new emperor , Joseph 11 , and the Austrian secret police . |
| 12 | Although the new government had almost immediately initiated investigations of former CPCz officials for crimes committed before the November revolution , it had come under increasing pressure to broaden the scope of the investigations , particularly after a demonstration by over 100,000 people in Prague on May 12 . |
| 13 | Rocard had come under increasing pressure in the National Assembly ( lower house of parliament ) where he was dependent on alliances with either the right or the PCF in order to get legislation approved . |
| 14 | However , following the overwhelming defeat of these proposals in a popular referendum on Nov. 15 [ see p. 39185 ] , he had come under increasing pressure from party activists to resign . |
| 15 | The Department of the Environment had come under increasing criticism for the slow progress in setting up the trust . |
| 16 | A former Justice Minister who had been elected Speaker only the previous January [ see p. 36943 ] , Ninn-Hansen had come under considerable criticism for a directive which he had issued in 1988 as Justice Minister to immigration authorities to give low priority to reuniting the families of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in Denmark . |
| 17 | Mobutu had come under sustained pressure to reach a power-sharing agreement with Tshisekedi , a leading figure of the opposition Democratic Union for Social Progress ( UDPS ) and in the opposition Sacred Union alliance , and his dismissal provoked renewed protests . |
| 18 | The lofty idea that India could endure as a secular democracy of diverse peoples had come under open attack from the Hindu chauvinists of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) . |
| 19 | The authorities had come under growing pressure to act more vigorously against extreme right-wing organizations and activities after a hotel used as a temporary refugee centre was firebombed on Jan. 17 , the first incident of its kind in Austria . |
| 20 | Less than a year later Rust and Sabrina were on a routine stakeout at the Marseilles docks when they had come under heavy fire from a gang of drug smugglers and Rust was hit in the spine , leaving him paralysed from the waist down . |
| 21 | The judge described their life together as a story of high achievement and glorious success , which had come through unrelenting hard work , unlimited self-sacrifice and absolute determination . |
| 22 | Against odds of four to one , he had come through alive . |
| 23 | They worked steadily , dealing first with patients who had come for audio testing , an important part of the health screening programmes that were regularly carried out on members of the workforce . |
| 24 | Chemists were even suspicious of physical methods of analysis ; but the convenience of the spectroscope meant that by the 1870s it had come into regular use , as we shall see later . |
| 25 | At that point Posi chimed in to say that another vessel had come into visual range just beyond the Valve . |
| 26 | My most abiding memory will not be of the joy of the French , but the terrible sight of Pete Sampras ' face at the prize giving ceremony which looked as if he had come into intimate contact with an atom bomb . |
| 27 | We were the most powerful country in the world and the overwhelming fact was that astonishing amounts of money had come into ordinary people 's homes . |
| 28 | The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office on May 8 announced that the UK would return to Albania gold worth £10,000,000 ( US$18,000,000 ) which had come into British hands after its confiscation by the Nazis during the Second World War . |
| 29 | Jack Millar himself recalled a few stories of his experiences as a salesman , much to the amusement of all present , including his family who had come from far and wide to be there . |
| 30 | More seriously , he thought that it was probably a corrupt version of some such name as Krankovitz or Krankovsky , indicating that one branch of the family had come from eastern Europe . |