Example sentences of "had come [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " 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 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 3 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The adaptive expectations hypothesis had come to earlier prominence in Philip Cagan 's ( 1956 ) path breaking study of the monetary dynamics of the European hyperinflations which followed the Great War . |
| 6 | Reynolds had come across two others like it in all respects , but not in the same folder , and not with the incriminating paragraph ; that too was odd , in retrospect . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Department of the Environment had come under increasing criticism for the slow progress in setting up the trust . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However little ‘ charisma ’ had come into these considerations in 1933 , there seems no doubt that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ — or significant elements of it — played an important role in shaping the behaviour of the conservative élites in the following years in at least two ways . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland . |
| 20 | We sent a message of solidarity to the 250 women on board the ship , who had come from different parts of the world including the Arab Region . |
| 21 | Fund raising for the state-of-the-art machine began in 1987 and senior technician Peter Barton said help had come from several organisations including the WRVS , the Guides and the League of Friends . |
| 22 | Reports on May 5 said that US troops had come within 2 km of the town of Dahuk , south of the " safe havens " zone . |