Example sentences of "came [subord] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That came after the unlucky trio ate Chinese food in the team hotel the night before — an unavoidable accident of fate in the eyes of the England team . |
| 2 | This came after the Croatian Peasant Party held a meeting to reconstitute itself . |
| 3 | The split apparently came after the fiery-tempered pair had a row about Tatum wanting to go back to acting — leaving McEnroe to look after the children while she makes movies . |
| 4 | Their climax came as the flaming sun dipped low over the old city of Seville . |
| 5 | It came as the Labour leadership put its weight behind a tactical Commons move which threatens to wreck the Maastricht bill or force the Government to accept the social chapter . |
| 6 | The crisis came when the political system proved incapable of controlling either the competing elites or the alienated masses ( Post and Vickers 1973 ) . |
| 7 | The main blow to Mr Yeltsin 's critics came when the prime minister , Viktor Chernomyrdin — read out a government statement of support for the president pledging that the defence , interior and security ministers would remain faithful to ‘ the principles of the constitution . ’ |
| 8 | The challenge came when the Regional Land Ownership Task Force , established by the Appalachian Alliance to work specifically on land and taxation issues , discovered that the ARC intended to conduct a study on land in Appalachia . |
| 9 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 10 | One of the critical points of construction came when the new wing was connected with the main body of the hospital . |
| 11 | ‘ The biggest crisis of my life came when the postal rate went up , ’ he would later state , only half in jest . |
| 12 | The twist to the story came when the old man was found to be a carrier of the very germs that he blamed the coloured people for bringing into the country . |
| 13 | The big boost came when the recombinant DNA programme in the States suddenly folded before it had ever really got going . |
| 14 | An illustration of this came when the Daily Mirror , for reasons of their own , carried a feature article about Oxford United and paid particular attention to Eric — one of the most regular of the chant leaders . |
| 15 | The first sign that something was happening came when the interminable drumming from the countryside began to break up into two distinct and separate cadences , one deep and threatening , the other a nerve-jangling collection of notes that seemed to have no coherent structure , but somehow managed to sound rhythmic . |
| 16 | But the final straw came when the would-be Biggles discovered his pride and joy was being used by someone he did n't know to smuggle drugs . |
| 17 | The boost to their growing jurisdiction came when the Royal Commission on Trades Unions and Employers ' Associations ( Donovan Commission ) of 1968 approved the extension of tribunal jurisdiction ( Donovan , 1968 ) . |