Example sentences of "[Wh pn] came [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 2 | Two other grandmothers who came on regular visits , one ‘ very generous ’ and the other an eloquent ‘ martinet ’ , died too soon to leave more than a dim recollection . ’ |
| 3 | This was a lady of 50 who came with chronic sinusitis , so severely blocked in fact that X-rays showed black over the frontal sinus . |
| 4 | Every customer who came into that office dealt with him . |
| 5 | Once again the spectre of the adolescent as worker and wage-earner returned to obstruct the aspirations of reformers who came into direct conflict with the priorities of market forces , including the evolving relationship between labour and technology , the urgency of the small firm for immediate profits , and the overwhelming influence of supply and demand . |
| 6 | Of course his wife did visit me , but always with her daughters and other ladies who came for regular afternoon visits . |
| 7 | Many of them pass it on to their wives ; 1% of the women who came for pre-natal tests at the hospital were HIV-positive . |
| 8 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 9 | The one who came across that body in Benbury Woods a year or so ago ? |
| 10 | I hope those people who came to Ayresome Park tonight enjoyed the game . |
| 11 | I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance . |
| 12 | We know very little about how the experience of ageing will vary between those who came to this country a-s economic migrants and the indigenous population . |
| 13 | During the recent troubles in India , many of the people who came to this country and who said that they were refugees from oppression by the Indian Government were proposing various forms of armed or violent protest against that Government . |
| 14 | In a combative pre-election speech Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on conservative thinking and " those who came to this congress hoping to take the party back to the old condition of commands and orders " . |
| 15 | The revival of psychoanalytic criticism , usually in its Lacanian version , has been a disconcerting surprise to someone who came to intellectual maturity in the 1950s , when Freud seemed a figure of increasing remoteness . |
| 16 | John Welsby , a former transport department civil servant who came to British Rail 10 years ago and took over as chief executive in January last year , believes the new system could prove unwieldy . |
| 17 | Anyhow , a man called Jack Foster , who came from round Middleton way , was employed as her farm manager , and ended up marrying Miss Walker . |
| 18 | And a new threat emerged with the 19-year-old Norwegian Lasse Kjus , who came from 32nd start to eighth . |
| 19 | Four-fifths ( 81% ) of those who came from outside Edinburgh were visiting the City for leisure purposes . |
| 20 | Both she and Dr Brewis were also concerned about the many patients on their wards who came from outside Newcastle : they knew even less about the arrangements for community care within those districts . |
| 21 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 22 | Families of those immigrants who came after that point in time were classed as illegal until the announcement of the new policy . |
| 23 | Accumulating the evidence would be an occupation to keep her going whilst she organized her children 's lives with Mrs O'Keefe , who came in each day to look after them . |