Example sentences of "have come to a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | French microkernel operating system developer Chorus Systemes SA has come to an agreement with Motorola Inc 's Semiconductor division for joint development and marketing of a combination of the Chorus Unix System V-compliant microkernel technology with the PowerPC chip Motorola is developing with IBM Corp . |
| 3 | French microkernel operating system developer Chorus Systemes SA has come to an agreement with Motorola Inc 's Semiconductor division to jointly develop and market a combination of Chorus Unix System V-compliant microkernel technology with the PowerPC chip Motorola is developing with IBM Corp . |
| 4 | However , if you do not sell it and you do not have enough income to pay the weekly charge , we would have to come to an agreement with you on how to overcome the difficulty . |
| 5 | If they wished to prevent Labour forming a government , they would have to come to an arrangement with Baldwin , rather than any other Conservative ; and since the Liberals had only just fought an election opposing Baldwin 's policy of Protection , this would be a difficult course for them to take . |
| 6 | If the bridge ceased to be economical as a business the owners would have to come to an arrangement with the council |
| 7 | Mr. Collins 's primary submission was that , at any rate so far as the eliciting of information from the applicant himself was concerned , the investigative process contemplated by sections 1(3) and 2 of the Act of 1987 must be taken to have come to an end at the time of charge , and to have been replaced by the process of prosecution pursuant to section 1(5) . … |
| 8 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 9 | And they 've come to a judgement on those issues and their judgement is that erm they s should support the principle of a western route . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel very angry that you 've come to a conclusion about me without discussing the matter with me . ’ |
| 12 | I 've come to a series of decisions . |
| 13 | No my my own view and it 's I I do n't know if I 've come to a view on the relative weight of those sorts of considerations er I I 'd need to think about it some more before I could come to a view on that . |
| 14 | You 've come to a number of those I guess ? |
| 15 | I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months . |
| 16 | Then , while shopping in Fore Street one morning , he was approached by Timothy Gedge , who smiled at him as though nothing untoward had occurred between them and asked if he had come to a decision about donating the curtains . |
| 17 | The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces . |
| 18 | This issue had come to a head in July , with the tabling of a no-confidence motion in parliament , and the live broadcasting of the July 18-20 debate on national television . |
| 19 | The Spratly Islands were claimed by three ASEAN members — Brunei , Malaysia and the Philippines — and by China , Taiwan and Vietnam ; the dispute had come to a head in early 1992 after China and Vietnam awarded contracts separately to Western companies to drill for oil in the disputed archipelago [ see p. 38768 ] . |
| 20 | Things had come to a head in 1990 when a release extenxded a shut-down by several days at a cost of £250,000. a CAT , involving a wide cross-section of disciplines , was set up and reviewed incidents from 1987 onwards . |
| 21 | My dreams of training an owl had come to a standstill with Barny , and then another standstill when I could n't find a bird to buy . |
| 22 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |
| 23 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 24 | When nothing happened , and he realised that he had come to a place without facilities , he retired for another consultation . |
| 25 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 26 | We had come to an arbour of bougainvillaea and morning glory at the end of the kitchen-garden terrace , set back and obliquely . |
| 27 | Matters have come to a head with the publication of a new and more detailed insurance group rating system which insurers say will enable them to pinpoint the higher risk models more accurately . |
| 28 | Nothing has happened today , except that we have come to a sort of agreement about exercise . |
| 29 | FORTY years at Sellafield have come to an end for Harry Brocklebank , but he will not be short of news about the site . |
| 30 | Once you have come to an agreement on an expectation , form it into an objective statement , eg , ‘ We will establish no precedent which caters mainly to the desires of one at the expense of the other ’ . |