Example sentences of "[adj] came [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were living in a spectacular era : Mussolini made war on hapless Ethiopia ; after the death of King George V came the brief reign of Edward VIII , his abdication and marriage to Mrs Wallis Simpson ; then the happier reign of King George VI . |
| 2 | On top of this came the sundry depredations of military and civilian authorities desperate to feed the armed forces and urban population in the face of totally inadequate harvests . |
| 3 | In the summer of 1780 came the long-awaited summons . |
| 4 | With that came a few showers , mostly on the east coast . |
| 5 | UK governments since 1976 adopted explicit monetary targets , and with the Conservative election victory in 1979 came a strong commitment to controlling the money supply . |
| 6 | On April Fool 's Day 1963 came the first issue of Oz . |
| 7 | In 1904 came the first car , and in 1920 Rover hit the headlines when its Light Six saloon raced the Blue Train Continental Express 750 miles across France — and reached Calais 20 minutes ahead of the train . |
| 8 | Behind these came a weeping woman and a comforting man . |
| 9 | With the coming into force of Part 1 of the Control of Pollution Act on 14th June 1976 came a further means of controlling odours emanating from premises used for the disposal of ‘ controlled waste ’ , that is household , industrial and commercial waste , or any such waste defined by s.30(1) of that Act , especially where the odour is due to bad housekeeping , bad handling or spillages of waste . |
| 10 | As you can imagine there were a lot of champagne bottles opened that night , but perhaps the most pleasurable glass of all came the next morning from the bottle in Peter Wycherley 's office at the headquarters of Dunlop Slazenger who are my main sponsors . |
| 11 | With the SE and II came a greater respect for the Macintosh as an alternate system — partially spurred on by Apple 's own PC drive which can read and write IBM format disks , partially by a new wave of software . |
| 12 | First came a 7,000 mile , six day round trip from ocean to ocean for Rugby Canada 's two games in Newfoundland ; then back to the west coast with all the healthy B.C. players involved in one or more of the eight games undertaken against Swansea and Northumberland . |
| 13 | First came the disappointing news that House of Fraser is to close its branch of Binns in the town . |
| 14 | First came the clashing sound of stone against stone and the resounding thud of boulders dropped to the ground ; then the recurrent frantic yelping . |
| 15 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 16 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 17 | At some time after 1880 came a turning point in world history . |
| 18 | On 5th September 1974 came the first indication that something new and more sinister than the ‘ numbers game ’ was afoot . |
| 19 | The process took exactly one year from the coup d'état and on 2 December 1852 came a second plebiscite which put a formal proposition to the electorate : ‘ The people wishes to re-establish the Imperial dignity in the person of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte … ’ |
| 20 | Alongside the occasional opportunity classes in the 1960s came a little finding for extra staff . |
| 21 | Next came a seven-month war between Serbia and Croatia . |
| 22 | Next came a stomach-churning visit to the Snake Temple , where I actually held a snake very briefly , but drew the line at having it photographed around my neck ! |
| 23 | Next came an all-optical experiment using an optical fibre as nonlinear medium { 32 } , demonstrating 12 and chaos . |
| 24 | Across a range of questions , the pattern was consistent : the first set contained the largest proportion of students who became less honest ; next came the second set ; honourably in the rear were the astronomers , with the smallest proportion of students who became less honest . |
| 25 | Next came the new technology . |
| 26 | Next came the latest Canadian , Conrad Black , a businessman of conservative views , who bought the Telegraph papers from the last of the Berry family in the newspaper business , Camrose 's younger son Michael , Lord Hartwell . |
| 27 | Next came the multilateral organizations , with twelve million , followed by the non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) with 1.5 million ( Tomo et al , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | Third came a Liberal Democrat item , but no one was allowed to put the Tory case . |
| 29 | In August 1905 came the big fire at Castlethorpe . |