Example sentences of "have come to a " in BNC.

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1 Even before the slide forward has come to a stop , pull your rear guard hand back slightly in order to augment the snap punch .
2 The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope .
3 Time has come to a standstill .
4 Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’
5 This is sometimes taken to show that the process of monopolisation has come to a halt .
6 Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ?
7 Whether this will in practice make a great difference may be doubted , since it seems unlikely that a court will come to the conclusion that a chief constable of police has come to a decision that he could not reasonably arrive at , which is the critical test for the exercise of the powers of judicial review .
8 Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on .
9 This has come to a head with EEC obstructionist moves at the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations which were meant to reach a conclusion by 1990 but which would now appear to have collapsed .
10 It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt .
11 Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation .
12 I think he has come to a rendezvous .
13 Well , the SAAF has come to a conclusion that others have long held — the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota !
14 ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt .
15 Mr Mawlawi added : ‘ The relief effort has come to a standstill .
16 THE Soviet Union 's quarrelling politicians may have come to a truce , perhaps something more .
17 It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon .
18 Because the sun 's rotation drove the planets around , the whole system would have come to a gentle halt for the duration of the miracle .
19 If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion .
20 And if in the County Council 's view , they 're all equally interchangeable and the anybody , then I fail to see how they can have come to a a view that the maximum acceptable environmental figure is their forty one thousand .
21 One notable absentee from the squad is Lee Crooks , once rated invaluable by Reilly , who appears to have come to a career crossroads .
22 Free Range Egg production having taking off in the 80's , seems to have come to a halt , if all that we read and hear is true .
23 Despite the reward and an extensive search of the area police enquiries seemed to have come to a halt .
24 Outside , it 's still raining , and as we gallantly struggle to open our umbrella in the wind , we suddenly find we 've come to a halt beside a large black car , and a man in a smart suit is opening the door for us to get in .
25 ‘ I feel very angry that you 've come to a conclusion about me without discussing the matter with me . ’
26 I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months .
27 I feel I 've come to a full stop and so does Toby .
28 ‘ I 've come to a decision , ’ he said .
29 I 've come to a series of decisions .
30 I 've come to a tremendous decision today .
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