Example sentences of "[verb] to the [adj] conclusion " in BNC.
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1 | The Baron 's brows drew together , but he did n't jump to the immediate conclusion she 'd feared . |
2 | Of course , they 'd immediately jump to the wrong conclusion and think I was talking about a girlfriend , and I 'd get some almighty teasing , but the joke was on them ! |
3 | I have , however , experienced enough , and spoken to sufficient numbers of experienced psychics , to come to the private conclusion that the psychic is a reality . |
4 | Nelson argues that the failure of other reviewers to come to the same conclusion was because they used vague definitions of depression and failed to take into account the severity of the disorder . |
5 | You get to hear that I 'm sharing my house with a five-foot bombshell who can make a grown man go weak at a single glance , and you leap to the obvious conclusion . |
6 | Are we to jump to the unlikely conclusion that John 's heart has at last been melted by the love of a good woman ? |
7 | Women are gentler , softer , cleaner , altogether nicer things and I , who always considered myself one of the boys , had come to the surprising conclusion that the companion I Wanted most was a woman . |
8 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
9 | I have come to the same conclusion as many people who find that they have a potentially fatal disease . |
10 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
11 | But , as stated in Anderson v. The Queen , at p. 108 , per Lord Guest ‘ in cases of murder great care must be taken to see that there has been no miscarriage of justice ’ and the test , a strict one , has been described in Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1935 ] A.C. 462 , 482–483 , per Viscount Sankey L.C. as whether ‘ if the jury had been properly directed they would have inevitably have come to the same conclusion ’ and in Stirland v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1944 ] A.C. 315 , 312 , per Viscount Simon L.C. , as involving ‘ a situation where a reasonable jury , after being properly directed , would , on the evidence properly admissible , without doubt convict . ’ |
12 | It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants . |
13 | I would myself have come to the same conclusion as that which the deputy judge expressed [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 514 , 528 : |
14 | I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion . |
15 | ‘ And it looks as if Ivor had come to the same conclusion . |
16 | It seems that Kerr J at first instance had come to the same conclusion as Lord Denning via a public policy route . |
17 | It seems that he would have come to the same conclusion regarding the implication of such control . |
18 | More recent authority has come to the same conclusion : see Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 per Pearson LJ and Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 per Megaw LJ . |
19 | I have come to the same conclusion that some a method of appointment is in fact right and it makes sense . |
20 | ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said . |
21 | ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’ |
22 | We have come to the clear conclusion that Parliament , in adopting the phrase ‘ office or employment , ’ intended section 16(1) of the Act of 1968 to have a wider impact than one confined to the narrow limits of a contract of service . |
23 | In the last section we have come to the interesting conclusion that B may alone exist of all our variables but we reached that conclusion on a magnet shape not much used in practice . |
24 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |
25 | Therefore in the present case the justices came to the correct conclusion . |
26 | The English novelist Kingsley Amis , considering the film and its possible interpretations , came to the following conclusion : ‘ It 's about being bloody frightened of being eaten by a bloody great shark . ’ |
27 | It came to the reverse conclusion so far as the crime of administering a drug for the purpose of obtaining sexual intercourse was concerned and recommended that all sexual acts should be covered . |
28 | And came to the uncomfortable conclusion that it might have been a warning … |
29 | The case of City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1992 ] 2 EG 172 came to the surprising conclusion that unless the lease provides otherwise ( eg by providing that the original tenant 's obligations will remain in place during a statutory tenancy ) , where the lease has been assigned and the present tenant is holding over , the original tenant 's liability ends on the contractual term date . |
30 | It was the day the Crown Prince , swayed by von Mudra , came to the irrevocable conclusion that ‘ Operation GERICHT ’ had failed , and should be called off altogether . |