Example sentences of "came to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's what happened , we did all go our separate ways , and quite naturally came to no good ’ . |
| 2 | Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective . |
| 3 | The report itself had no conclusions , so came to no conclusion about the yellowing . |
| 4 | He came to no more meals , and Roland feared Fergus thought this was a function of his , Roland 's , resentment . |
| 5 | Preston thought about this and came to no satisfactory conclusion . |
| 6 | One contemporary chronicler ( Bartholomew Cotton , q.v. ) tells us that he attempted to drown himself en route to the Tower and that he also attempted to dash his brains out while in custody , but he came to no harm and by October had been released and begun paying a fine . |
| 7 | ‘ Murtach and the others are going round some of the outlying tenants now , to ensure they came to no harm . ’ |
| 8 | She fell over several times , but came to no harm in the soft , forgiving snow . |
| 9 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 10 | Jim McLean : his touchline protestations , while very entertaining , came to no avail |
| 11 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 12 | At the intersection of the paths she came to a fountain . |
| 13 | She came to a blackboard on which she read , ‘ Sea fishing . |
| 14 | There has been criticism of the group 's wheeling and dealing which came to a head with the surprise sale of the William Hill / Mecca betting shops chain to Brent Walker . |
| 15 | He came to a decision to which on the evidence before him he was entitled to come , and it was not a decision with which the court could properly interfere . |
| 16 | As the congress came to a close , Janis Aboltins , vice-chairman of the Latvian state planning commission , said the call for independence could create problems in negotiating more econonic freedom from the Kremlin . |
| 17 | Soon after setting off we came to a forested valley along the banks of the Gwaun . |
| 18 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 19 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 20 | Her disenchantment with the Foreign Office , already evident over Rhodesia and the EEC , came to a head during the Falklands War and she brought in Sir Anthony Parsons ( who had impressed her during the war when he was ambassador to the United Nations ) to advise on foreign affairs and appointed Roger Jackling to advise on defence . |
| 21 | Until at the top of the hill , despite spotting Hermione 's black hair and bright red jacket down below her , she came to a stop . |
| 22 | North West North West match angling almost came to a total halt at the weekend with virtually all major matches called off . |
| 23 | We talked and gradually came to a decision that was quite contrary to the one we had held when we hauled ourselves out of our clothes a half-hour before . |
| 24 | The project came to a head a year ago , when Ulrich Seifert , VW 's head of research , and Herbert Schaefer , VW 's design chief , commissioned the designs from Switzerland 's Art Centre College . |
| 25 | For an anguished three minutes Herr Nordern thought that the Lada would not work but , in company with a neighbour s antiquated Volkswagen , after a bout of racking , early morning , heavy smoker 's coughing , it came to a sort of half-life as , quite unnecessarily , because the Lada 's engine could be heard half-way across Berlin , Herr Nordern tooted its feeble horn . |
| 26 | A letter to The Times of 1923 , for example , drew attention to ‘ the dangers arising from the Americanization of the British Empire from the excessive number of American motion pictures shown ’ , but things came to a head in 1924 . |
| 27 | The service was facing its biggest crisis since the ambulances came to a stop in the Winter of Discontent ten years ago . |
| 28 | ‘ People seemed to disappear under debris , and we came to a rest . |
| 29 | On March 29 1985 , Jose Manuel 's inquiry came to a brutal end . |
| 30 | Mounting discontent came to a head over a professional insurance scheme which Fimbra attempted to force on all its members . |