Example sentences of "come [adv prt] to the [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it .
2 In summing up what they learned from their primary and middle school case studies , Briault and West ( 1990:99 ) came back to the purposes of good management : The objective of management , in whatever sphere , is to improve the product and to meet the customer 's requirements .
3 Certainly as far as Americans are concerned , a lot of our hotels do n't come up to the standards of service that they are used to , and certainly they do n't think they 're value for money .
4 At that moment ‘ a white light shone forth like a sword ’ from Gandalf , as many people see ‘ the light that shone ’ round Éowyn and Faramir as they come down to the Houses of Healing .
5 And she comes back to the Counts of Lusignan to foretell deaths — she is a kind of Dame Blanche , or Fata Bianca .
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