Example sentences of "[noun] have come to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well , the SAAF has come to a conclusion that others have long held — the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota ! |
| 3 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 4 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
| 5 | Even Sir John Stokes , the bristle-brushed old gent for whom ‘ the twentieth century has been a mistake ’ , sat in the Commons representing the Birmingham dormitories of Halesowen and Stourbridge , where the closest most of his supporters had come to a foxhunt was a roadside cocktail lounge called the Whip and Saddle . |
| 6 | Her eyes on where to place her feet , she failed to notice that Travis had come to a halt , and cannoned right into him . |
| 7 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 8 | The carriage had come to a standstill |
| 9 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 10 | Recently matters had come to a head . |
| 11 | My ritual cataloguing had come to a halt . |
| 12 | This issue had come to a head in July , with the tabling of a no-confidence motion in parliament , and the live broadcasting of the July 18-20 debate on national television . |
| 13 | For it had been when Ryan had died , three years ago now , that the situation between her and Jake had come to a head . |
| 14 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 15 | Matters have come to a head with the publication of a new and more detailed insurance group rating system which insurers say will enable them to pinpoint the higher risk models more accurately . |
| 16 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 17 | Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ? |
| 18 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 19 | The BMW had come to a stop and the boy was climbing out , his Molotov cocktail now lit and ready . |
| 20 | Both Glovers had come to a halt now , mesmerised despite themselves . |
| 21 | Sex between Henry and Elinor had come to a halt some four or five years ago and , from what Henry could remember about it , it was something that was better discontinued . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | The landlord had come to a halt . |
| 25 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 26 | Things had come to a head in 1990 when a release extenxded a shut-down by several days at a cost of £250,000. a CAT , involving a wide cross-section of disciplines , was set up and reviewed incidents from 1987 onwards . |
| 27 | In the name of Allah , things have come to a pretty pass if the tabloids are influencing England 's selection policy . |
| 28 | But things have come to a pretty pass when obesity is confused with the wobbly bits the good Lord designed for girls — the bits that should stick out at the front and back of a strapless ballgown . |
| 29 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 30 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |