Example sentences of "[verb] not come to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there . |
| 2 | There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma . |
| 3 | And an expert on the case believes she still has n't come to terms with what she 's done . |
| 4 | Johnny had not come to Rose Cottage during those last days of term . |
| 5 | If Oliver had not come to France with her the playing might have gone further . |
| 6 | Dunegal of Nithsdale had not come to Thorfinn 's standard , nor had any of the men of Dumfries and the western lands of St Cuthbert . |
| 7 | He had not come to Canterbury to dissipate the rights of his church . |
| 8 | Minton 's sharpest critic was David Sylvester who , having admired his Painter and Model at the Contemporary Art Society exhibition earlier that year , damned the portraits at the Lefevre for their lack of reality ; Minton , he argued , had not come to grips with appearances because he had failed to detach his faculties of observation from his interest in the sitters ' personalities . |
| 9 | But then , she had n't come to Venice to sit in a hotel room . |
| 10 | At that time she had n't come to terms with them , ’ he recalls . |
| 11 | ‘ Over two packs a day , very foolish for a diabetic , but she had n't come to terms with the illness at that stage , and was quite defiant about a number of things , Professor Rankin tells me . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My guess is that she had n't come to terms with the situation herself , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Law firms have not come to grips with the issues , ’ says Geraldine Cotton , chair of the 5,500-strong English Association of Women Solicitors . |
| 14 | So maybe that 's why it 's not come to light before . |
| 15 | ‘ But I have n't come to Liverpool to be number two . |
| 16 | After all , how can anyone sort out their problems if they have n't come to grips with themselves ? ’ |
| 17 | And yet we have n't come to terms with that . |
| 18 | I have n't come to terms with the bloke I killed yet , but when I do , it will be frightening . |