Example sentences of "[adv] come to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 2 | " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end . |
| 3 | But his tortured mind could only come to the same conclusion . |
| 4 | He only comes to the odd party . |
| 5 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 6 | There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area . |
| 7 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 8 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 9 | Puzzled by the incident , she went on , but less than a dozen paces further on came to a sharp stop . |
| 10 | Due recognition was soon to come to the industrious doctor : in 1716 George I created him a baronet , an honour as yet conferred on only one other physician . |
| 11 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 12 | The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop . |
| 13 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |
| 14 | All this soon came to an abrupt end . |
| 15 | As the early church came to see that history was not coming to an immediate end , they also saw some permanent ministerial structure was needed . |
| 16 | Langton led them through two more doors , finally coming to a small room with a desk and two chairs . |
| 17 | We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance . |
| 18 | If the new if the new settlement proves successful , it will have an impetus all its own and therefore it will not come to a full stop in two thousand and six . |
| 19 | We could walk round to the stables , if you do not object to it — I can vouch for it that the grass is not wet — and then perhaps Miss Araminta will not hear as the horses will not come to the front door . ’ |
| 20 | One need not come to the same conclusions now as one did two years ago . |
| 21 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 22 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 23 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 24 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 25 | They were hollowed-out places , but always came to a dead end . ’ |
| 26 | Some people have great difficulty in solving problems and making decisions and waste a great deal of time ruminating on the same thoughts without ever coming to a clear conclusion . |
| 27 | We may contrast with this the phrase semantic components , where the two interpretations are virtually indistinguishable ; it will be seen that this phrase will always come to the same thing in practical terms , whether we regard the components as being semantic , with ascriptive use of the adjective , or as components connected with semantics , taking the associative interpretation . |
| 28 | Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief . |
| 29 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
| 30 | For even taking into account my employer 's generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ , the costs of such a trip might still come to a surprising amount considering such matters as accommodation , meals , and any small snacks I might partake of on my way . |