Example sentences of "come to the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have , however , experienced enough , and spoken to sufficient numbers of experienced psychics , to come to the private conclusion that the psychic is a reality . |
| 2 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 3 | Women are gentler , softer , cleaner , altogether nicer things and I , who always considered myself one of the boys , had come to the surprising conclusion that the companion I Wanted most was a woman . |
| 4 | I had seen the island where time begins , and had come to the sorry realization that the Pacific , the vastest of all oceans , is a far more complicated entity — if indeed it could ever be regarded as such — than it was possible to imagine . |
| 5 | A nice enough chap and he was knowledgeable in theory you see , but when it come to the practical experience and the practical doing of the work , he would just say , Well what did you do the last time Jimmy ? |
| 6 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
| 7 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 8 | I have come to the same conclusion that some a method of appointment is in fact right and it makes sense . |
| 9 | I have come to the same conclusion as many people who find that they have a potentially fatal disease . |
| 10 | It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants . |
| 11 | I would myself have come to the same conclusion as that which the deputy judge expressed [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 514 , 528 : |
| 12 | It seems that Kerr J at first instance had come to the same conclusion as Lord Denning via a public policy route . |
| 13 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | We have come to the clear conclusion that Parliament , in adopting the phrase ‘ office or employment , ’ intended section 16(1) of the Act of 1968 to have a wider impact than one confined to the narrow limits of a contract of service . |
| 17 | In the last section we have come to the interesting conclusion that B may alone exist of all our variables but we reached that conclusion on a magnet shape not much used in practice . |
| 18 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |
| 19 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 20 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 21 | The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail . |
| 22 | And came to the uncomfortable conclusion that it might have been a warning … |
| 23 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 24 | Other sources observe that HP and Sun , who came to the MAS announcement as cheerleaders , did not exactly pledge to adopt it leaving only IBM who was already involved . |
| 25 | The case of City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1992 ] 2 EG 172 came to the surprising conclusion that unless the lease provides otherwise ( eg by providing that the original tenant 's obligations will remain in place during a statutory tenancy ) , where the lease has been assigned and the present tenant is holding over , the original tenant 's liability ends on the contractual term date . |
| 26 | It was the day the Crown Prince , swayed by von Mudra , came to the irrevocable conclusion that ‘ Operation GERICHT ’ had failed , and should be called off altogether . |
| 27 | He found a certain amount of fossil evidence that the time planes were not parallel with the lithological boundaries and he came to the general conclusion that the facies to the north are in the main younger than those to the south . |
| 28 | According to the former , Molla Edebali , a native of Karaman , came to the Ottoman lands and there won the complete confidence of Osman so that the latter " used to refer to him problems in the Seriat and to consult with him in matters of government " . |
| 29 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 30 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |