Example sentences of "[to-vb] to fruition " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would point out that scientific projects need a great deal of time to come to fruition , and premature publication of , er , data can damage progress . |
| 2 | And in addition many of the conservation measures adopted following the first oil shock began to come to fruition . |
| 3 | It was a costly investment requiring several years to come to fruition and the vast majority of growers could not afford the necessary equipment . |
| 4 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 5 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 6 | And it 's not just important to DEC who freely admits its whole strategy is dependent on a unified Unix and desperately needs last year 's deal between OSF and USL on common Application Programming Interfaces to come to fruition . |
| 7 | Small wonder that Kenya 's plans to establish an Export processing Zone ( see later section ) have yet to come to fruition , despite recent improvements in the exchange-management procedures . |
| 8 | Attention has already been drawn to the fact that a single harmonization proposal can take decades to come to fruition . |
| 9 | Major naval , military and railway construction programmes scheduled to come to fruition in 1917–18 argued strongly for delay . |
| 10 | Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia . |
| 11 | And while they were away , he would allow her little dream to come to fruition . |
| 12 | The London County Council ( 1961 ) had wanted a New Town at Hook , in Hampshire , planning a compact settlement designated for universal car ownership and complete pedestrian segregation , but Hampshire County Council preferred major town-expansion schemes at Andover and Basingstoke , and the proposal failed to come to fruition . |
| 13 | What about this mum 's army of teachers is this going to come to fruition as some point or not ? |
| 14 | Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition . |
| 15 | I thought that they were about to come to fruition . |
| 16 | In the second of her reports on the build-up to the show , Harriet Ryley joins two of the exhibitors anxiously waiting for a year 's work to come to fruition . |
| 17 | Calvinists , for whom no event could be fortuitous , were especially prone to make judgments that divine providence was supposed to bring to fruition before their eyes . |
| 18 | Today , one hundred years after his death , we may at last be approaching a sufficient understanding to bring to fruition Darwin 's proposal . |
| 19 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
| 20 | In general , a minimum of ten years is required to bring to fruition an initial proposal for an international Convention , though there are exceptions . |