Example sentences of "have come to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 5 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
| 8 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 9 | ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said . |
| 10 | The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people . |
| 11 | But , as it is , the 325i scrapes by as a comfortable four-seater with the proviso that four tall occupants will have to come to a front/rear legroom compromise that would n't even need to think about in a Peugeot 405 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If you are still anti-bat , so be it , but at least you will have come to an informed conclusion . |
| 15 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 16 | It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’ |
| 18 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
| 19 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
| 20 | It had to come to the nightly struggle with the big glass , like the struggle with Proteus , who must be held no matter what form he takes , bull , bear , fox , fire , water . |
| 21 | I 've come to a tremendous decision today . |
| 22 | ‘ You see , ’ the chief inspector went on , ‘ I 've come to a dead end . ’ |
| 23 | I feel I 've come to a full stop and so does Toby . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've come to the right place , then , ‘ she said cheerfully , leading the way inside . |
| 25 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
| 26 | ‘ Aye , well , lass , if you 're after wor Robbie you 've come to the wrong shop . |
| 27 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |
| 28 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 29 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 30 | On the ground , in accordance with the order , 5 Corps had already entered negotiations with the Soviet authorities to take them over , and had come to a final decision ( reported to Eighth Army ) on which groups were to go . |