Example sentences of "[noun pl] come to [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the first European missionaries came to China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries no trace remained of the heavenly clockwork of five hundred years earlier . |
| 2 | Marx had expected the communists to come to power in the most developed industrial societies of the West , where there would already be considerable accumulated wealth , scientific knowledge , and industrial capital to provide well-being for all . |
| 3 | Eventually this work on citation orders came to fruition in the rather unlikely context of a new indexing system , PRECIS . |
| 4 | This proportion was virtually the same as the proportion of patients coming to surgery in the entire ulcerative colitis series ( 669/1156=58% ) . |
| 5 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 6 | When Sikh men came to Britain in the fifties it was with the hope of making some money ( usually to buy more land for the family farm ) and returning . |
| 7 | WASPS come to attention in the league tomorrow by calling for the old guard in an effort to repulse Gloucester 's rugged raiders at Sudbury . |