Example sentences of "came to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | One man who came to Aswan at the Queens request , was a youthful-looking Frenchman with a shock of curly hair and a slightly puzzled expression behind his glasses . |
| 32 | Friedlander came to prominence through the 1966 exhibition Toward a Social Landscape , which also introduced the work of Garry Winogrand and Duane Michals . |
| 33 | The method came to prominence through the activities of Frederick Bligh Bond , a highly respected authority on medieval church architecture . |
| 34 | Milton preferred many aspects of the religious , and perhaps even social , programmes that the more radical groups which came to prominence during the Commonwealth favoured . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The dependency metatheory , created by a group of Latin American social scientists , came to prominence in the 1960s and , despite formidable criticism since then , has obstinately refused to disappear . |
| 37 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 38 | He came to prominence in the early 50s and has become the best-known member of the ‘ kitchen sink school ’ of realist painters . |
| 39 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 40 | That year he came to Europe as the roving correspondent and covered the several large conferences . |
| 41 | The first real impact of the 1986 Act came to governors with the requirements to produce a formal report to parents and hold an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 42 | In 1976 , a Danish film-maker called Jens Jorgen Thorsen came to Britain with the intention of making a film , provisionally entitled The Many Faces of Jesus . |
| 43 | West Indians , for example , came to Britain with the intention of settling here , Pakistanis with the conviction that they would eventually return . |
| 44 | Before 1869 , there was no Institution in England and Wales ( nor for that matter , in Scotland ) where deaf children of Roman Catholics could be educated in their own faith , and when a Belgian priest , Monsignore de Haerne , a deputy in the Belgian Senate , learnt of this , he came to Britain for the purpose of establishing one . |
| 45 | The first Victor PC came to Britain as the Sirius PC , and was sold and supported by ACT , Applied Computer Techniques of Birmingham . |
| 46 | Adding to these the 431 children sponsored by Inter-Aid in the months before Kristallnacht , the 700 or so who came to Britain under the auspices of Youth Allyah , the 100 orthodox children rescued by Rabbi Schonfeld and the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations , and the Polish and Czech refugees saved by Nicholas Winton and his friends , brings the total to well over 10,000 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Why , one might ask in reply , did Anderson never develop stories that engaged with just these issues , even when Joseph Losey , an American who came to Britain in the early 1950s as a refugee from the communist witch-hunts , could deal with them in an assignment for Hammer . |
| 49 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 50 | Making up yardage charts started in America in the late 1950s , took off in the 1960s and came to Britain in the 1970s . |
| 51 | He was the son of James Six ( 1695–1743 ) and his wife Ester , daughter of Louis Ducaufour , and descended from the Huguenot refugee families who came to Britain in the sixteenth century and settled in Canterbury , where they engaged in the silk-weaving trade . |
| 52 | Ill health dogged his period at St Mary 's , and he returned for a further period of treatment while he was the curate , and in September 1962 he came to Coniston as the Parish priest and significantly , no further setbacks were experienced to his health while he was living in proximity to Coniston Old Man and during the period he was Parish Priest . |
| 53 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 54 | It was much the same when it came to doctors for the people . |
| 55 | This effort , as far as the administrative machinery was concerned , was initiated by the French advisers who came to Spain in the early years of the century with the first Bourbon king , Philip V ; later it was encouraged by Choiseul , who saw in the effective mobilization of the resources of his ally the means to defeat England and lay the foundations of a Franco-Spanish world power . |
| 56 | Brunner-Mond came to Billingham for the anhydride deposits which it could process into nitrates . |
| 57 | An inspector who came to Durham at the same time as myself to read Law and the Sociology of Law , found the latter course required a move to concepts outside normal police experience . |
| 58 | Christianity came to Kerala in the first century . |
| 59 | Up until then I was still pretty naïve when it came to affairs of the heart . |
| 60 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |