Example sentences of "have [adv] come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million .
2 As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo .
3 Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks .
4 Even after your job has clearly come to an end , you need to beware of breaking obligations that remain legally binding upon you , such as the duty not to disclose trade secrets .
5 The age of those mighty , entrepreneurial artistic directors has probably come to an end .
6 West Germany : ‘ the nuclear construction programme of the German utilities has practically come to an end for the time being . ’
7 It began very early in September and has really come to an end today with the last of the leaves falling overnight and the first serious snow on the mountains .
8 Back at Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire the Congregational Tabernacle 's Mutual Improvement Society resolved in November 1893 ‘ that the time has now come for an Organ to be obtained for the Tabernacle Services ’ .
9 To this must be added the 157,000 temporary houses ( the provision of temporary houses has now come to an end ) , the repair of war-damaged property , and the use of huts and service camps .
10 We are pleased that a dispute in which the current management of pergamon Press has played no part has now come to an end .
11 Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years .
12 My friends have also made it difficult for me , but the world has n't come to an end . ’
13 However , no new phyla have appeared since the Cambrian period , some 500 million years ago , hinting , as Gordon Rattray Taylor once pointed out , that perhaps evolution has actually come to a halt .
14 It 's twenty to twelve , erm Y D P just really erm having now come to an end .
15 and as soon as you 've parked , they 've obviously come from a home somewhere or from the hospital or whatever
16 Well , that was when it had all come to a head .
17 Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision .
18 Temple 's decision to increase its offer had not come as a surprise , he said , and the SeaCo board would meet next week to consider its response .
19 War or no war , the Government 's other business had not come to a halt .
20 She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls .
21 If you 've just come down a hill with your brakes on ,
22 ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's .
23 ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe .
24 ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir .
25 It looked as if the serenity of the evening had just come to an end !
26 ‘ Yes and no , ’ mumbled Hyacinth , to whom the news of the arrest and incarceration of the chairman of the YCs had just come as a surprise .
27 Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning .
28 ‘ I 've not come for a drink .
29 A spokesman for the DTI acknowledged that the department had been broadly aware of the situation at Leyland-DAF in September but insisted that news of the receivership had still come as a surprise .
30 Although not unexpected , his death had still come as a shock .
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