Example sentences of "have [adv] come to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well , that was when it had all come to a head . |
| 4 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 5 | War or no war , the Government 's other business had not come to a halt . |
| 6 | Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station . |
| 7 | One person had evidently come to a decision . |
| 8 | By early 1690 such tensions had again come to a head . |
| 9 | Matters have now come to a head . |