Example sentences of "come hard on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that decline came hard on the heels of the mid-1980s , when prices rose to absurd heights . |
| 2 | In chapter 12 Abraham was given a reason for his going , for the promises came hard on the heels of the command . |
| 3 | The death of his daughter clearly disrupted the concentration last season , but the hundred he took off Surrey , his first for two years , came hard on the heels of a critical four-wicket haul against Glamorgan , furnishing evidence of a redoubtable performer waving rather than drowning . |
| 4 | He said the figures came hard on the heels of the news that there were just 202 job vacancies for the 4,685 unemployed in the Darlington district . |
| 5 | But only months after it was implemented , two ten-year-old boys were charged with murdering two-year-old Jamie Bulger in Liverpool , a crime which , coming hard on the heels of reckless teenage joy-riders , fuelled a public outcry . |
| 6 | He resented the assertion of Aquitainian authority coming hard on the heels of the Grandmont meeting and when Count William turned to him for help he responded by raiding the Vexin to draw Henry back north . |
| 7 | Microsoft Corp has been talking a little more about its planned Cairo — now called Windows Cairo — object-oriented operating system , and far from being a distant prospect , it looks as if it will come hard on the heels of Windows NT , with a professional developers ' kit available as soon as early next year according to the late Systems & Network Integration . |
| 8 | The changes , however , come hard on the heels of the introduction of clinical directorates and new unit structures , the NHS internal market , and a reorganisation of social work departments . |
| 9 | The results come hard on the heels of a forecast by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , who says he is confident that a series of factors will lead to a ‘ relaunch ’ of nuclear power in a few years ' time . |
| 10 | The move comes hard on the heels of growing pressure from the Government for banks and building societies to pass on recent rate cuts to home owners to get the economy moving . |
| 11 | The news comes hard on the heels of the Chancellor 's kick-start to the economy in the recent Autumn statement . |
| 12 | Portadown 's win comes hard on the heels of Randalstown 's superb victory last weekend in Cork in the All-Ireland League final , and both will now be in Europe next year . |
| 13 | The news comes hard on the heels of an announcement by the Iceland Foods Group that it plans to build a distribution depot on part of the town 's former railworks site , creating around five hundred jobs . |