Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] come [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following too close to another vehicle came second in a report by the Automobile Association . |
| 2 | The 84-year-old actor came first in a survey which asked Americans : ‘ If you wanted to buy something , who would you want to sell it ? ’ |
| 3 | All this kidolgy comes second nature to two men immersed in football all their lives . |
| 4 | Among the nine member countries in 1985 the British pension came second to last in what it enabled older people to buy in their own countries . |
| 5 | Scottish TV came first , launched on the enthusiasm of Roy Thomson , who had difficulty con-vincing Scottish backers that ITV had a bright future . |
| 6 | In this book , spiritual , mental and emotional well-being come first in this section on health and beauty , because caring for the needs of the inner person is not only of primary importance in itself but is also a great step towards achieving physical well-being . |
| 7 | The hitherto ruling Croatian League of Communists — Party of Democratic Change came second in a field of more than 30 political parties [ the full results will be published in the next News Digest ] . |
| 8 | Effective lost insulation comes next in the cost-effectiveness stakes . |
| 9 | His second disappointment came last year when the Bath hooker returned for the deciding group game against Berkshire . |
| 10 | The individual organism came first in the biologist 's consciousness , while the replicators — now known as genes — were seen as part of the machinery used by individual organisms . |
| 11 | The dynamic duo 's real coup came last summer , when they managed to snatch two Brazilian internationalists for the comparative bargain price of £2.85 million . |
| 12 | A second ominous event came last week , when Mr Babangida issued a treason decree , imposing the death sentence for anybody attempting to ‘ disrupt the fabric of the nation ’ . |
| 13 | He also visited Lord Gowrie , head of Sotheby 's , which has announced the auction on 17 November in Geneva of goldsmiths ' work and jewellery valued at SFr20 million ( £8 million ) , with a second sale to come next year , from the collections of the Fürst Thurn und Taxis of Regensburg . |
| 14 | It was still widely agreed that , as laid down in the papal ranking of 1504 , the Holy Roman Emperor came first of all secular rulers , and this pre-eminence all emperors jealously guarded : it was only after considerable resistance that Ferdinand III ( 1637 – 57 ) agreed to address Louis XIV as " Majesté Royale " . |
| 15 | Decision : the need to deter other people from carrying out similar acts outweighed the effect of the sentence on the appellant 's future prospects : the appellant 's personal position came second to the public interest in deterring others minded to act as he did . |
| 16 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 17 | An England representative team came second in the strongest open tournament of the year in Berne , Switzerland , to break the familiar stranglehold on the top prizes by players from the former Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Adam Smith of Annadale set produced a 13.59 triple jump to come second to Micky McDonald of Ballymena and Antrim who recorded 13.76 metres . |
| 19 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 20 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 21 | The happy ending came last week . |
| 22 | Also , the philosophy underlying the NHS 's information strategy is that clinical information comes first . |
| 23 | He studied 17 ways of saving carbon dioxide emissions , in order of cost-effectiveness , and nuclear power came 15th . |
| 24 | We had one bloke come last week he lives about fifty yards from the shop . |
| 25 | But worse news came last week when the authority and the ESRC unexpectedly withdrew promises of funds . |
| 26 | The Communist Party came third with 14 per cent of the vote , but won the largest number ( 24 per cent ) of mayorships . |
| 27 | My one consolation came next year ( I had that same teacher again ) , when she asked me what was wrong with my cheek . |
| 28 | In such cases TRACE tends to prefer parses in which the longer word comes first . |
| 29 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 30 | Smoked duck 's breast on a bed of mixed salad came next , followed by a meaty chicken terrine , cut into thick slices and served alone . |