Example sentences of "come [adj] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 2 | He defeated the emigré businessman Stanislaw Tyminski , who had surprisingly come second in the first round of the elections held on Nov. 25 [ see pp. 37840-41 ] , by 10,622,696 votes ( 74.3 per cent ) to 3,693,098 ( 25.7 per cent ) . |
| 3 | Emil Constantinescu , who had come second in the presidential elections in September [ see p. 39104 ] , was elected president of the main opposition alliance , the Democratic Convention ( DCR ) , on Nov. 27 . |
| 4 | He was in danger of becoming part of the establishment and there was a new young punk hungry for his chance : twenty-one-year-old Brock Little had come fourth in the 1986 Eddie Aikau when Foo was second . |
| 5 | He was sworn into office on Jan. 14 , taking over from Vinicio Cerezo ( also a democratically elected civilian , of the Christian Democratic Party — PDCG — whose candidate had come third in the first round ) , together with his Vice-President and fellow evangelical , Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero . |
| 6 | He now competes regularly against adults too , and came second in the recent Cleveland championships in which most of the players were adult . |
| 7 | Jay progressed though local congresses , and experienced his first big success at the Whitley Bay tournament where he came second in the under-nine events at the age of seven . |
| 8 | He told students : ‘ In the auditions I ask them who came second in the last war and they say ‘ Ask the other fella ’ . |
| 9 | In December 1918 he came second in the same constituency in the Coupon election . |
| 10 | Gordonians were second bottom of Division Three before Saturday but they came good in the final game , defeating Morgan Academy 29-0 to leap-frog the Dundee club . |
| 11 | The race was won by an Aston Martin DB4 and the Guisborough duo came sixth in the overall concours and fourth in their class of 1,000–1,300cc grand touring sports cars . |
| 12 | Mr John Wilkinson ( C. Ruislip Northwood ) , who came sixth in the private members ' bills ballot , yesterday announced a measure to make it obligatory to apply for planning permission before a dwelling house is demolished . |
| 13 | Alvaro Arzú was the former mayor of Guatemala City and co-founder with Alvaro Heredia ( the acting mayor ) of the right-wing National Advancement Party ( PAN ) , as whose candidate he came fourth in the first round of the election . |
| 14 | The CDU/CDM coalition came fourth in the Federal Assembly , the CDU coming third in the Czech National Council while the CDM emerged as the second strongest group in the Slovak National Council . |
| 15 | Last summer , bothered by a groin injury , his tally was still 42 and he came 12th in the national bowling averages . |
| 16 | Somerville 's Cross-Country and Tennis Teams came first in the annual Cuppers competition while the Hockey Team reached the final . |
| 17 | Griffin made his break for home in the last half-mile and Kiernnan , who came ninth in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic marathon , had no reply . |
| 18 | Bill Clinton came last in the four-way race in the New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville Notch which has a population of 37 . |
| 19 | Paratroopers ( from the left ) Alex Poole , Eric Sekwalor , John Sowerby and Sean Ollsson came third in the four-man push competition organised by the British Bobsleigh Association to find crews for the new season . |
| 20 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 21 | The former single ruling party , the Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) , came third in the National Assembly elections with just 19 seats and fifth in the elections to the Senate with three seats . |
| 22 | Mr Barrantes , 61 , bowed out of the 1985 presidential elections after coming second in the first ballot . |
| 23 | I have lived in many parts of America , and I can assure you all that Hawaii is as breathtaking as you imagine , that the charm of the Old South is living on in Charleston , and that colonial America will come alive in the small towns of New England , particularly in the autumn when , in the words of Henry James , the ‘ weather is like tinkling crystal and the colours like molten jewels . ’ |
| 24 | Providing he comes through unscathed he could then find himself in line for a place when the same counties come face-to-face in the senior championship this day fortnight in Newry . |
| 25 | The reference would then alter the binding of ‘ he ’ from the dog to the vet , purely because the structure for the ‘ he ’ pronoun comes first in the logical form . |
| 26 | WHAT number comes next in the following series : 179 , 558 , 344 , 148 , 291 , 80 ? |
| 27 | Effective lost insulation comes next in the cost-effectiveness stakes . |