Example sentences of "[noun] come to [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | More reassuring in terms of Soviet policy was Gorbachev 's dramatic decision to allow a non-Communist premier to come to power in Poland . |
| 2 | The former Middlesbrough chief scout came to Feethams in May 1989 , during the reign of far-sighted Brian Little , and with no real basis to work on . |
| 3 | On the other hand Labour came to power in London in 1934 , re-elected in 1937 . |
| 4 | Partly as a result , Whitehaven came to prominence in the Virginia tobacco trade during the 1740s , although Lowther had only indirect links with the merchant community . |
| 5 | When President Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow in early 1985 , Mr Husak became one of the disoriented old men of Eastern Europe , and when Mr Gorbachev reached Prague , in the spring of 1987 , Mr Husak looked out of his depth . |
| 6 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 7 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 8 | Mauro Ferri came to Easington in 1939 with his mother and brother to visit his sister who had married another Italian , Dennis Donnini , who was a fusilier in the British Army . |
| 9 | Details of the former government 's involvement with terrorist organizations came to light in June 1990 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Singh came to power in last year 's farcical assembly election by getting the support of no more than 9% of registered voters . |
| 12 | President Yoweri Museveni came to power in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] at the head of the National Resistance Movement which had waged a guerrilla war since 1981 , first against the regime of President Milton Obote , and subsequently against the military government which deposed Obote in July 1985 . |
| 13 | President Yoweri Museveni came to power in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] at the head of the National Resistance Movement which had waged a guerrilla war since 1981 , first against the Obote regime and subsequently against the military government which deposed Obote in July 1985 . |
| 14 | On April 11 the motion , the 11th since Rocard came to power in 1988 , was defeated 289-261 after failing to win the support of the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 15 | It is a complete mystery to everyone how the following gems came to light in 1989 . |
| 16 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 17 | LAST week , a case came to court in which a mentally unstable man was convicted of stabbing three policewomen and one policeman in a shopping centre . |
| 18 | His sister came to England in July , and they went to the Isle of Wight together for a little over three weeks . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Contrary to Labour 's claims , the report said the proportion of national income spent on education is almost the same now ( 5.1 per cent ) as it was when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 ( 5.2 per cent ) . |
| 21 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
| 22 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 there were 1,087,000 jobless . |
| 23 | The increase is the 15th since the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , when the charge for a prescription was just 20p per item . |
| 24 | Once the Conservatives came to power in 1979 the unrest began to be translated into policy form . |
| 25 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , a series of inner area studies , commissioned by the government , had been completed and a White Paper , Policy for the Inner Cities , had been issued two years previously . |
| 26 | New figures show the burglary rate in the region has risen five-fold in some areas since the Conservatives came to power in nineteen seventy nine . |
| 27 | The first Arbuthnot came to Ireland in 1798 to try the rebels who had burned the English garrison alive in their barracks at Prosperous . |
| 28 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza came to power in a coup in 1976 , and introduced a civilian Constitution ( 1981 ) under which single party elections were held in 1982 , the sole legal party being the Union pour le progrès national ( UPRONA ) . |
| 29 | There , alongside Elsie Oakensen , an amiably ordinary grandmother who told how she was snatched by aliens in Northamptonshire in 1978 , a group of bone fide fruitcakes from the Aetherius Society ( who believe that Jesus and Buddha came to Earth in flying saucers from Venus ) , turned up and did their party turn . |
| 30 | Thoughtful and trenchant , his prolix arguments could often be tiresome , although Thomas Babington Macaulay , first Baron Macaulay [ q.v. ] , thought his attack on the National Board system , in the first debate on the issue when Sir Robert Peel came to power in 1841 , led to ‘ the very best parliamentary set-to between the secretary and the solicitor-general for Ireland which has ever been witnessed ’ . |