Example sentences of "[noun] came to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand Labour came to power in London in 1934 , re-elected in 1937 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Ferranti family 's demands came to light as a result of an approach by representatives of Hill Samuel and Murray Johnstone , who are canvassing support among shareholders for a plan to make Ferranti hive off its core UK defence interests and merge them with the defence activities of Thorn EMI . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Details of the former government 's involvement with terrorist organizations came to light in June 1990 . |
| 8 | Mr Singh came to power in last year 's farcical assembly election by getting the support of no more than 9% of registered voters . |
| 9 | While I was in South Africa , Valerie came to Carewscourt for a holiday . |
| 10 | The priest came to condole with Madeleine . |
| 11 | Friedlander came to prominence through the 1966 exhibition Toward a Social Landscape , which also introduced the work of Garry Winogrand and Duane Michals . |
| 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 | The Wootton and Widgery proposals came to hand at the right time ; there were pressures from bodies such as the Magistrates ' Association and the Justices ' Clerks ; while the prospect of legislation prompted a clearing out of the pigeon holes of Whitehall . |
| 15 | Sarah came to tea on Sunday and when all the younger members of the family were in the parlour afterwards , Anne spoke about the talk of war . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | It is a complete mystery to everyone how the following gems came to light in 1989 . |
| 18 | Over at Cheltenham racecourse yesterday history was made as the runners and riders came to post for the first-ever Sunday National Hunt meeting … around thirteen thousand people turned out to watch … and racing hopes , of course , that steeplechasing on Sunday will become a firm fixture … |
| 19 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 20 | His case came to hinge on one point . |
| 21 | The case came to hinge on the legitimacy of Mabel because of William 's first contracted marriage and so to be a matter for the church courts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The case came to light at Liverpool magistrates ' court when Shaw Bakery was prosecuted for a lapse in food hygiene standards . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 there were 1,087,000 jobless . |
| 27 | The increase is the 15th since the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , when the charge for a prescription was just 20p per item . |
| 28 | Once the Conservatives came to power in 1979 the unrest began to be translated into policy form . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |