Example sentences of "[noun] had reached a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hancock 's lawyer said that his client and Mrs Rinehart had reached a compromise over access to the body so that the funeral could go ahead . |
| 2 | The vessels were remarkably fast , and on sea trials had reached a speed of over 34 knots . |
| 3 | Twice before it had stopped , allowing them to get close , only to move away again as their senses had reached a fever pitch of readiness . |
| 4 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 5 | In February , PA Kate Pallis said negotiations about developing the site had reached a standstill . |
| 6 | Momentarily she digested the horrible implication , that by nineteen-eighty the work on Titron had reached a stage where an enlarged adult human foetus had presumably already been tested against many diseases — and was a norm . |
| 7 | In his early years Reza Shah had reached a series of agreements with Moscow and ended the system of extraterritoriality , by which Westerners in Iran were outside the jurisdiction of the Iranian courts . |
| 8 | It seemed that Walsh had reached a career crossroads after taking 174 wickets in 50 Tests . |
| 9 | The group had reached a stage which provided a sound base for selective expansion . |
| 10 | Name had reached a ceiling on what could be achieved under present arrangements ; |
| 11 | About ten minutes after take off Deacon had reached a position eight miles East of Filfla and a height of 10,000 feet . |
| 12 | However , only one month earlier the High Court had reached a decision in W. H. Smith Do It All Ltd and Payless DIY Ltd v. Peterborough City Council [ 1990 ] 2 CMLR 577 , which gave exactly the opposite result . |
| 13 | At the end of the war , because of the sustained activities of Jacques and his core of full-time tutors throughout the District , the herculean efforts of both university resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk and the five WEA organising tutors , the District had reached a position in which it occupied the pre-eminent place in the region as the major providing body for adult education provision . |
| 14 | Very noteworthy was the imaginative decision to give help and advice to those schools which had shown by their own efforts that their thinking and planning had reached a stage where they were ready to make more effective use of innovative methods and resource materials . |
| 15 | By the time he retired in 1977 , ITT 's sales had reached a record $17bn with earnings of an unprecedented $562m . |
| 16 | Despite the April heat , the rebel army made fast progress through Central India and by the end of the month had reached a position near Ujjain . |
| 17 | By the time the flotilla had reached a latitude of 50°S , and had stopped again for rest and replenishment , the men were becoming restive once more : their plea now was ) — if the expedition wanted to reach the Spice Islands , why not turn east towards them and pass below the Cape of Good Hope , as usual ? |
| 18 | In preparation for this , the first decade of the regime was devoted to the development of the infrastructure , in particular the railways and canals , so that by 1860 France had reached a point where it was felt she was capable of competing with the greatest economic power of the age . |
| 19 | By July 1988 , however , the Uprising had reached a stage where he felt constrained to erect a constitutional ( and physical ) barrier to protect the East Bank of Jordan from what might happen . |
| 20 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 21 | Although the plaintiffs in that case had reached a compromise with the assignee and the surety , it specifically did not involve releasing the assignee from the liability to pay the arrears of rent . |
| 22 | In that year the proportion of convicted adult males given a custodial sentence had reached a low of 15 per cent . |
| 23 | And then , when the shouting had reached a climax , there was a ghastly scream from inside the room . |
| 24 | The Net Book Agreement first came into force after the practice of ‘ underselling ’ in the latter half of the nineteenth century had reached a stage where it threatened to undermine the whole of the book trade . |
| 25 | That duration testifies to the substantial fact that for all the alarm the crisis produced , the British financial system had reached a level of sophistication and general confidence which enabled it to live through a moment which in earlier times would have seemed the harbinger of doom . |
| 26 | The biggest provincial cities and towns had reached a stage of urbanisation at which the scale of wealth far exceeded that of the countryside . |
| 27 | Already her sailing ability had reached a level where she was able to make the minor corrections to hold the boat on course without even thinking . |
| 28 | Yesterday Mr Olsen said the company had been approached by CITIC about the possible purchase of a holding back in November and the talks had reached a point at which they had had to be made public . |
| 29 | The company 's shares had reached a peak in the market in 1984 at over 350p but had fallen quite sharply after this . |
| 30 | The 1957 White Paper confirmed in their minds that the decline in British power had reached a point where the concerted pressure of world opinion , particularly in the United Nations , would throw the door wide open for them to walk through into their heritage of immediate rather than prudently timed independence . |