Example sentences of "[noun pl] came [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books came from the central library in Salisbury by the train load . |
| 2 | But anthropologists proved his theory was wrong ; the islanders came from the western Pacific . |
| 3 | Production rose with population , too : between 1880 and 1912 4 million more acres came under the main food crops . |
| 4 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 5 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 6 | It was quite an exciting and exacting task to work out the meaning of basic Christian terms , for in Burmese almost all the abstract nouns and religious words came from the religious language of Buddhism . |
| 7 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 8 | Man 's early faith in the original ‘ god ’ forerunners came from the apparent success which on some occasions appeared to attend the involvement of them in the troubles that beset him . |
| 9 | If the key role in opposing James 's pro-Catholic policies came from the Anglican establishment , and in particular from the clergy , how did they justify doing this , given their professed attachment to the principles of non-resistance and passive obedience ? |
| 10 | The calls came as the British Medical Association in a new report stepped up its demands for a total ban on boxing . |
| 11 | As Keynes pointed out , the Treasury 's opposition to planning for post-war full employment was a lost cause , because when post-war plans came under the political spotlight the Labour members of the government would undoubtedly press for an expansionist policy . |
| 12 | The Russians came among the Siberian peoples in the late sixteenth century from two directions , which subsequently became established as the main regular routes . |
| 13 | At all events , when the Conforama and Marchandise cases came before the European Court of Justice , Mr. Advocate General W. van Gerven ( who had also been Advocate General in the Torfaen case ) urged caution upon the European Court . |
| 14 | The Conforama and Marchandise cases came before the full court , whereas the Torfaen case had been heard by a chamber of the court . |
| 15 | The advice on bending the rules came from the then Defence Minister , Alan Clark . |
| 16 | What representations have the Government made about the new proposal , particularly in Latvia , to restrict citizenship to those whose descendants came from the Baltic states and to those who speak the Baltic languages ? |
| 17 | Many of the current members joined up after catching one of the club 's many demonstrations , or parents came to the Royal Commonwealth Pool to see what their kids were actually up to — and stayed . |
| 18 | Most of the comments on links with parents came from the primary sector |
| 19 | During February visitors came from the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences and in the same month there was an official visit by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Ministry for State Education . |
| 20 | The zoos ' founding stock of lar gibbons came from the wild , and the usual way to catch gibbons is to shoot mothers and take away their infants , many of which die before they reach their destinations . |
| 21 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 22 | If messages came over the secret encoder about military supplies for the contras , ‘ I would scan it and pass it on . |
| 23 | Even in the Lockerbie disaster , where a plane exploded in mid-air , and many bodies could only be pieced together in fragments , relatives came from the other side of the world searching for something , anything that gave a focus to their grief and over which they could weep . |
| 24 | In the second half of the eighteenth century , two fresh problems came into the open , particularly through the work of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729–81 ) . |
| 25 | The majority of the prints came from the prestigious collection of the Bolognese conte Lodovico Aurelio Savioli , curator of the paintings , prints and drawings collection of the Elector Palatine Carl Theodor in the last quarter of the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | Clinking washing-up sounds came from the shed-like caravan , and the dogs were friendly . |
| 27 | The only sounds came from the other end of the room where the woman was splitting the artichokes and tossing them with a splash into a big plastic bowl . |
| 28 | The black fungal mass of her sex quivered , and odd sounds came from the Green Jack 's hollow mouth , like whistling gasps . |
| 29 | There are also clear indications that although the assassinations may have been carried out by low-ranking army officers the orders came from the military high command . |
| 30 | Angry whispers came from the other men . |