Example sentences of "had [verb] to such a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 2 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 3 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |
| 4 | One organization had responded to such a situation by issuing fixed-term contracts for a period equivalent to its minimum planned needs and then retaining the workers concerned on one week 's notice , with no obligation to negotiate their dismissal with the trade unions if their services were still required thereafter . |
| 5 | By the following year , guerrilla activity on the part of the Zealots had intensified to such a degree that Rome was obliged to take vigorous countermeasures . |
| 6 | The situation had too many of the elements of a farce about it , and he wondered briefly why he had agreed to such a scheme . |
| 7 | The European Commission of Human Rights was created to receive complaints of abuses from states and ( where the country concerned had agreed to such a procedure ) from individuals . |