Example sentences of "came [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His warning came after the breakdown of talks in London . |
| 2 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
| 3 | I was n't saving up to get married , I was n't very interested in jewellery , and clothes , which I could have been interested in , came under the category of things to look at in shop windows but not to buy , because of the very limited amount of clothing coupons one was allowed to have . |
| 4 | In July a military rising broke out in Spanish Morocco , was supported by many of the garrisons in Spain , and came under the leadership of Generals Mola and Franco . |
| 5 | In 1871 the domains were abolished and all areas came under the control of administrators responsible to Tokyo . |
| 6 | A change which came with the formation of Chemicals & Polymers was the switching of methanol to the petrochemicals business . |
| 7 | The demise of the flying boat came with the development of jets and the spread of concrete runways . |
| 8 | It was to be a good many years before Coniston came within the sphere of operations however . |
| 9 | The clashes came in the wake of reports of continuing casualties on both sides in May , and of claims by the Human Rights Association that " torture , repression and arrests are all on the rise " . |
| 10 | This ultimatum [ see also p. 38403 ] came in the wake of reports which claimed that Iraqi troops were being massed around Kirkuk . |
| 11 | Ferranti 's move came in the wake of complaints about a market turndown from rivals such as Racal and Thomson CSF — the French group which may bid for Ferranti with British Aerospace . |
| 12 | It came in the form of imports from the ports of Dunkirk , Le Tréport , Dieppe , and Rouen , or from home-grown stocks dispatched from stations in the Vexin , Valois , and Picardy . |
| 13 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 14 | A rather higher proportion ( n.s. ) of referrals to the specialist team came in the form of requests for general assessment rather than for specific services . |
| 15 | Support for the scanning hypothesis of lateral differences in tachistoscopic recognition came in the form of findings which showed the direction of visual field asymmetry to be related to whether the stimuli are symmetrically shaped ( Bryden , 1968 ) or are presented in normal or in mirror image orientation ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ) . |
| 16 | The most consistently outspoken broadsides against the old Establishment came from the Institute of Directors , a once moribund association of small businessmen and oddball intellectuals , which revived itself by taking up Thatcherism almost before the term had been coined . |
| 17 | The tragedy at the Heysel stadium in Brussels , for example , came from the crush of spectators fleeing from the drunken charges of Liverpool fans . |
| 18 | They were rampantly influenced , but their originality came from the collection of influences and the way they interpreted them . |
| 19 | Something like a moan came from the crowd of watchers . |
| 20 | Of the growth approximately 9.5bn came from the inflow of funds from contributions ; the difference ( -3.2bn ) reflects a 2 per cent fall in the value of existing assets . |
| 21 | The comments most worthy of note on the subject of undertakings came from the Conference of Presidents Secretaries of Local Law Societies who suggested the following measures : — |
| 22 | After the battle Orc tribes came from the Forest of Shadows , swelling Azhag 's horde still further , but the Count of Ostland built his defences well and Wolfenburg held out . |
| 23 | During her time a remarkable change came over the attitude of authorities towards the care of the elderly . |
| 24 | NICK KNIGHT 'S fighting qualities came to the rescue of champions Essex as they were made to struggle for runs in reply to Northants ' 444 for nine declared at Chelmsford . |
| 25 | Its purpose is chiefly to add entries for new words and new meanings of words : ‘ new ’ implying that they came into existence , or came to the attention of scholars , after the relevant part of OED was published , and therefore could not be inserted in the main work . |
| 26 | Then Mr Healey came to the changing of nations . |
| 27 | These early settlers used to heat their cabins in winter with coal which they could gather from the mountain-sides , and this natural resource also came to the notice of entrepreneurs . |
| 28 | Their warning came on the eve of talks between employers and union leaders representing 2.3m public employees demanding pay rises of 9½ p.c . |