Example sentences of "came [prep] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitch , then of Horden and Peterlee , now professional , unluckily lost a majority points decision after a ludicrous bout in which Noi 's headguard came off six times in one round . |
| 2 | BLACKPOOL : A bit of a cheer went up when the news came through last week in Brighton of the Government 's humiliation at the hands of the Bundesbank . |
| 3 | Families of those immigrants who came after that point in time were classed as illegal until the announcement of the new policy . |
| 4 | Sharp 's opening goal came after 11 minutes in controversial circumstances . |
| 5 | Jordan 's traditionally friendly relations with Egypt and Saudi Arabia came under increasing pressure in October as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 6 | Prime Minister Mamaloni came under increasing pressure in 1990 both from opposition leader Nori and from growing dissatisfaction from within the ruling PAP . |
| 7 | Muite came under violent criticism in the pro-government media . |
| 8 | The Azerbaijanis , by contrast , are a Shi'ite Muslim community of Persian culture ; the territory that presently constitutes their republic came under Russian control in the early nineteenth century and entered the USSR , together with Georgia and Armenia , in 1922 . |
| 9 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 10 | As agreed with the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries in November [ see p. 38581 ] , Vneshekonombank ( the Soviet bank for foreign economic affairs ) , which came under Russian control in December [ see p. 38581 ] , ceased principal repayments on the Soviet Union 's foreign debt from Dec. 5 . |
| 11 | These temples and their priestly organiza-tions came under serious threat in times of anarchy and economic recession and they probably suffered from serious depredations in the late third century . |
| 12 | The peace accord between the government , the ANC and Inkatha [ see p. 38422 ] came under serious threat in October , as township violence continued in the Transvaal and Natal . |
| 13 | Bettino Craxi 's leadership of the Socialist Unity Party ( usually still referred to as the PSI ) , came under serious challenge in September following his verbal attacks on the Milan magistrate , Antonio Di Pietro , who was leading the inquiry into the Milan local government corruption scandal [ see pp. 39025 ] . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , two French soldiers were slightly wounded yesterday when their building came under machine-gun fire in fighting around Sarajevo airport , a UN spokesman said . |
| 15 | American news coverage of the 1960s riots first came under academic scrutiny in the aftermath of the Watts riot , where it was generally felt that media reporting had exacerbated the conflict . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , he came under intense fire in the House of Commons . |
| 17 | A wide range of popular culture came under severe criticism in the early twentieth century . |
| 18 | Before Punjab came under British rule in 1849 the peasants had had a right to farm the land but had not owned it , in the sense of being able to sell it off . |
| 19 | The Cayman Islands , which came under British rule in 1670 , were a dependency of Jamaica until 1959 , and governed by the Governor of Jamaica until they became a United Kingdom Dependent Territory on Jamaican independence in 1962 . |
| 20 | County 's big chance came with Big Bang in 1986 . |
| 21 | The change came with parliamentary reform in the nineteenth century and the emergence of large disciplined political parties in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 22 | This elegant device came into practical use in the 1920s and , when screwed into the centre of a tree trunk , extracts a slender core on which the rings are counted . |
| 23 | This was due not so much , as now , to divorce or separation ( the former was expensive and rare , though not unheard of , among the labouring poor ; the latter came into legal existence in 1876 ) as to death and desertion . |
| 24 | Terry Lovell 's Pictures of Reality was a seminal text in this respect , since it presented a scrupulous critique of the semiotic and psychoanalytical preoccupations of film theory even before they came into full swing in feminism . |
| 25 | " You came into this garden in the night , " Mr Blakey said eventually . |
| 26 | The Commission 's report was perhaps the turning point , for while it paid respect to the management it found ‘ to be totally dedicated to the railway with a high degree of pride in the service which came before financial reward in importance ’ , it made thought-provoking recommendations about management style and the need to set clearer financial objectives . |
| 27 | Both these documents came before this Council in July 1990 . |
| 28 | The Spirit of God came upon Christian individuals in order to create in them a quality of life that would otherwise be beyond their powers . |
| 29 | The first performance came from two people in white radiation suits who walked on to the stage carrying a dustbin allegedly containing nuclear waste . |
| 30 | This stereo assault on them came from two men in late middle age , bizarrely costumed in matching Victorian evening dress . |