Example sentences of "come to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Nick Mitchell , the head of personnel for the signals and telecommunications section , said the board had come to certain conclusions about pay and conditions for its 7,000 S&T engineers after a review of manpower and reward systems . |
| 2 | Reports from the OECD and NATO 's science committee have come to similar conclusions , but so far no one has quite got it together to act on a Europe wide scale . |
| 3 | This empirical and time consuming search for an effective strategy was mentioned by many arts interviewees , although every advisory teacher appears to have come to similar conclusions ultimately about which classroom practices were effective and which not . |
| 4 | He also knows that of 13 British chancellors since 1957 , all but two — one of them John Major himself — have come to sticky ends : sacked ( as Norman Lamont was on May 27th ) , removed by electoral defeat , forced to resign in high dudgeon . |
| 5 | Thus , the internationalization of the UK economy has increasingly meant investment in the advanced capitalist countries of Western Europe and the US until they have come to far outweigh UK investment in the Third World or in other Commonwealth countries . |
| 6 | Universities attract this kind of attitude , as , to some extent , does the campus novel , a brand of fiction which is probably the closest English departments have previously come to industrial production . |
| 7 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 8 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 9 | We see this underfunding of eventide care as limiting the choice available to people who have come to that point in their lives when they 're making decisions about the sort of care that they will next require . |
| 10 | I will give you an example of why I have come to that conclusion . |
| 11 | Many of course have come to that conclusion before , and those who have tried to reach a naturalistic morality which transcends it have had to read the historical record , or read beyond the historical record , in ways which seek to reveal a partly hidden human nature which is waiting to be realized or perfected . |
| 12 | At first instance , the judge held that the accommodation had to be appropriate and that no reasonable authority could have come to that conclusion in this case . |
| 13 | Whether he would have come to that conclusion if the building was betting-shop is an interesting thought , but we ‘ ve been delighted to go along with his judgement . |
| 14 | Even the Liberal party has eventually come to that conclusion — even the Albanian Government have come to that conclusion . |
| 15 | Even the Liberal party has eventually come to that conclusion — even the Albanian Government have come to that conclusion . |
| 16 | I know nothing of political tactics , but I will say this : Having come to that conclusion myself , I felt the only honest and right thing as a leader of a democratic party was to tell them , at the first opportunity I had , what I thought , and submit it to their judgment . ’ |
| 17 | My God , it 's come to that pitch already . |
| 18 | We have come to that stage now and the council has reached the conclusion that Mr Sugden 's proposition is the best on offer and we have no hesitation in recommending it to you . ’ |
| 19 | Although its seven hundred years years old , it 's only just come to official notice . |
| 20 | But half the ex-Yugoslavs who have come to Western Europe since the start of the Balkan fighting have not applied for asylum . |
| 21 | ‘ Try a selection from the Desert Song , topped up with a few choruses of Cool clear Water , Midnight at the Oasis or Caravans which may convince your bird that it has come to wrong place . |
| 22 | If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action . |
| 23 | The brush was all brown as though autumn had come to these islands where there is no autumn but only a more dangerous summer , but that was because the leaves had all been blown away . |
| 24 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 25 | Now that those plans have at last come to some fruition , Abraham 's obedience must be tested again . |
| 26 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 27 | ‘ I would have had to have come to some arrangement with Janice — separate houses , separate lives — and taken on the job of looking after Kirsty myself , even if it had meant giving up my job . ’ |
| 28 | You 've had this video now and I 've come to this school since you started this school , so you should know more about Stranger Danger than other schools cos I keep coming every year and talking to you about it . |
| 29 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 30 | He may have come to this decision in 1531 or 1532 and then proceeded cautiously because of the fear of opposition both at home and abroad . |