Example sentences of "came [prep] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pepper pot idea first came about one lunchtime while I was having lunch with Chris Barry and Mervyn Pinfield . |
| 2 | The first of the tries came after six minutes after Neil Jenkins had already landed a 30-metre penalty . |
| 3 | The ban on abortion counselling and referral by federally funded family planning clinics , imposed in 1988 under President Ronald Reagan and maintained by Bush , came under congressional challenge as both House and Senate enacted human services appropriations bills containing a provision to block enforcement of the ban during fiscal 1992 . |
| 4 | The seven-plus immediately came under renewed fire after the results showed just a slight improvement in spelling , reading and maths and a 12 per cent drop in writing skills since the tests were first held last year . |
| 5 | Now this idea came under tremendous attack because the Church of Luther 's day thought that he was denying good works and asserting personal experience . |
| 6 | The original Slav settlers came under Byzantine influence until , under the emperor Simeon ( 893–927 ) , they were forced to submit to Bulgarian rule . |
| 7 | At the outbreak of the Gulf crisis Yemen 's position came under particular scrutiny as currently the only Arab member of the UN Security Council . |
| 8 | Mike Gatting 's marriage came under public scrutiny while he was captaining England against the West Indies in 1988 . |
| 9 | THE BANK of England yesterday spent a reported $1bn after the pound came under sustained attack once it became clear that an increase in West German interest rates today is almost certain . |
| 10 | For example , the Swedish currency came under enormous pressure when the pound and lira left the ERM ; and polls show steady resistance in Norway to accession . |
| 11 | The declining fortunes of both racing and bookmaking came into direct collision when they tried to determine an appropriate levy for the next fiscal year . |
| 12 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 13 | His love affair was with laughter , and it came in Black Comedy when his character , sculptor Brindsley Miller , was improving the look of his shabby flat by ‘ borrowing ’ priceless porcelain and antique furniture from his friend next door to impress his fiancee 's snooty father , who is visiting on the same evening that the supposed richest man in the world is arriving to inspect his sculpture . |
| 14 | You know the first time I came in this country cos it was not decimal yet |
| 15 | The raw material came from such sources as Renaissance sketchbooks , engravings and travel guides and was originally limited to Antique works of art known between 1400 and the conquest of Rome by Charles V in 1527 . |
| 16 | It is probable , however , that this was an exception rather than the rule — most deaf people before the start of deaf education did not marry , and those that did , like Sir John Gawdy , Sir Edward Gostwicke and Alexander Popham , all came from wealthy families where there was a desire to continue the family line and marriages were made with daughters of families that were of the landed gentry . |
| 17 | It has its disadvantages in one 's daily life , and I remember now that I described this in At Mrs L 's — how Julia was like that and her family found it tiring and annoying , because she came to everything freshly and without preconceived opinions , and wasted time and came to odd conclusions because nothing was taken for granted . |
| 18 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 19 | → The Chicago based Harmony company came to real prominence after it was acquired by the USA 's foremost mail order firm Sears , Roebuck in 1916 . |
| 20 | The two schools came to different conclusions because they asked different kinds of questions and had different views as to what counted as an explanation , and of how an explanation should be evaluated . |
| 21 | He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance . |
| 22 | He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance . |
| 23 | We know very little about how the experience of ageing will vary between those who came to this country a-s economic migrants and the indigenous population . |
| 24 | The Indian woman was born in Kerala , Southern India , and came to this country when she was six . |
| 25 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 26 | The midwife toad came to public notice when , in the early years of this century , the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer announced that he had persuaded the toads to breed once more in water and that , as a consequence of this , they had re-evolved nuptial pads . |
| 27 | In 1846 he joined the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , of which he was president for eighteen years , and immediately came to public attention as principal signer of a set of ‘ resolutions and a memorial [ to MPs ] adopted at a meeting of gentlemen deputed from various parts of the United Kingdom to represent the sentiments of the inhabitants in their respective districts , on the subject of colonial slavery ’ . |
| 28 | Those seeds came to full flower when we attempted to analyse the consequences of the act of measurement . |
| 29 | Bishops then turned up the pressure in a search for an equaliser , and it nearly came on seventy minutes as yet another debut man , Tommy Callanan blasted the ball against the underside of the ball from literally yards out when it was easier to score . |
| 30 | I believe especially I never came on this campaign until after I went to see Arafat . |