Example sentences of "have grind to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Wilson said it all when he said ‘ after half a century of democratic advance , the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth earl ’ . |
2 | Most drug research in that country has ground to a halt , and Canada is now a substantial net importer of medicines . |
3 | However , he would be a perfect recruit for Arsenal , whose season has ground to a halt since they led the Premier League in early November . |
4 | ‘ The debate on poverty has ground to a halt since the new government came into power and TAFOS must get it going again . ’ |
5 | I often feel like his mother or his ‘ chum ’ , but I do n't feel like his partner and our sex life has ground to a halt . |
6 | Debt has meant that in some parts of Africa development has ground to a halt . |
7 | One quarter of the chamber is under suspicion of involvement , local government has ground to a halt in many parts of the country and public works contracts have all but dried up . |
8 | And while the house market has ground to a halt , you 'll have to move quickly if you want to become a pub landlord . |
9 | But given that you 're really in the market place situation , if you have goods which nobody wants to sell then eventually you 're going to have to grind to a halt . |
10 | There is a story about an old man who was called in by a factory to fix their ancient boiler , which had ground to a halt . |
11 | Despite the fact that the war had ground to a halt while the commanders-in-chief of both armies languished in their respective prisons , the young sprig confronting him obviously took his guard duty seriously . |
12 | The process had ground to a halt by early 1990 [ see p. 37199 ] , largely as a result of Likud 's hesitancy to proceed with a first-stage meeting of Egyptian , Israeli and United States officials without first receiving certain US " guarantees " ( the first-stage meeting was supposed to discuss a second-stage Israeli-Palestinian meeting in Cairo on the proposed elections ) . |
13 | The first meeting of the SNC opened in the disused Cambodian embassy in Bangkok on Sept. 17 , but after two days the talks had ground to a halt , the main stumbling block being the appointment of a SNC chair . |
14 | The first meeting of the SNC convened in the disused Cambodian embassy in Bangkok on mid-September , but after two days the talks had ground to a halt , with disagreements over the appointment of a Chair . |
15 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
16 | Football clashes between the age-old rivals have ground to a halt partly because outpourings of nationalism have sometimes got out of hand . |