Example sentences of "[noun sg] come as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The unanimous Security Council vote came as 1,800 US marines arrived off the coast of the East African nation . |
2 | The announcement came as twenty-one people were injured in two car bomb attacks in Belfast . |
3 | His claim came as local authorities lodged final returns for poll tax registration . |
4 | The claim came as 1,000 people attended a funeral service for Mr Wybran . |
5 | The news came as four-year-old Laura was discharged from a Pittsburgh hospital . |
6 | The bombshell came as official figures showed that Britain 's jobless total rose 47,000 to 2,807,000 last month — with workers joining the dole queue at the rate of 1,500 every day . |
7 | The sale to the world 's biggest glass company came as Huddersfield-based Heywood announced a 71 per cent crash in profits for 1992 to £5.5 million , from £19.2 million in 1991 . |
8 | The threat comes as European Drug Prevention Week begins . |
9 | The decision comes as British troops protecting aid convoys face growing dangers in the inter-ethnic war . |