Example sentences of "[noun pl] come a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the bushes came a low snort and the scraping of branches . |
| 2 | With the environments came a new piece of jargon ; WYSIWYG . |
| 3 | I think that would defeat the object in small places because you can hear these diesel cars coming a hundred miles away , in the later hours you can |
| 4 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
| 5 | FROM THE treasury of BBC moving pictures comes a further production of classic action , all set on English fields , all in colour except the first sequence ( the Oval Test of 1968 ) , all pleasant , positive viewing . |
| 6 | From the far side of the gardens came a strange , high-pitched keening , like the sound of an animal in pain . |
| 7 | The young earls who attended the Dunstable tournament were now to take a leading part in Edward 's wars , and with a new generation of earls came a new strategy . |
| 8 | In their places came a unified Ministry under the Secretary of State for Defence , who was given two Ministers of State with functional responsibilities to assist him . |
| 9 | With these changes came a different attitude to legislation . |
| 10 | In the never-never land of unreal prices , widespread subsidies and easy bank loans , using resources efficiently to make profits comes a long way down the list of priorities . |
| 11 | From above the curtains came a muffled roar : ‘ Play your blasted fiddle , Francie Jowle ! |
| 12 | They listened for a moment ; through the wall separating the two cottages came a faint , rhythmic warble . |
| 13 | Through walls and windows comes a muffled compound noise of machinery and traffic , the soothing , satisfying sound of men at work |
| 14 | And from the fields and villages of England , where work has slowed to a trickle and where the landlords have enclosed the common lands ( after 1802 ) SO that even subsistence living is difficult , from these fields comes a mighty army of labour . |
| 15 | Both cases come a few weeks after a 12-year-old American boy , Gregory Kingsley , ‘ divorced ’ his parents in a court action in Florida . |
| 16 | In the real world political initiatives come a poor second to security considerations . |
| 17 | Some way behind the warriors comes a small caravan of safari vehicles , two open-topped Willys cars and a truck . |
| 18 | She says the Liberal Democrats came a close second last time and believes the mood on the ground is one of dissatisfaction with the Conservatives which will give her the swing needed to gain the seat . |
| 19 | One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) . |
| 20 | Now out of the ashes comes a fresh start . |
| 21 | From the Devonian of Greenland and other localities comes a true four-legged animal ( tetrapod ) that is not far from the ‘ fish with legs ’ we might have visualized ( which is commemorated in its name — Ichthyostega ) . |