Example sentences of "[noun] come to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be difficult deciding when sentences of this kind come to an end — in some cases , several dozen clauses might be linked by and or other devices , lasting several minutes — but , it is unusual to find a problem understanding what is being said . |
| 2 | Had her career as an actress come to an end ? |
| 3 | Only when the soldiers moved opposite the Palestinian front line at Galerie Semaan — and the familiar crackle of Beirut rifle fire began to make the troops nervous — did the Syrian column come to a halt as if scarcely able to take in its objectives . |
| 4 | Until the United States sanctions on Nicaragua and its backing for the Contra war come to an end , these limitations on living standards will continue to affect prisoners as much as they affect the rest of the population . |
| 5 | The other possibility , as recognised by s 44(2) , is that the taxpayer and the inspector come to an agreement themselves about the division in which the appeal should be heard . |
| 6 | When does this clandestine affair come to an end ? |
| 7 | What they can do , however , is to help the physician come to a diagnosis and even measure the effect of treatment on the infection . |
| 8 | The rights of occupation come to an end on the death of the other spouse or on the termination of the marriage ( s2(4) ) unless the court has ordered otherwise . |
| 9 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 10 | There is an oscillation between light and darkness but no particular moment of time when day becomes night or night day ; as I walk across the landscape I may sometimes be on a hill top and sometimes in a valley bottom but at no point does the surface of the earth come to an end . |