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 | Johnny had not come to Rose Cottage during those last days of term . |
| 4 | If Oliver had not come to France with her the playing might have gone further . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had not come to Canterbury to dissipate the rights of his church . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Law firms have not come to grips with the issues , ’ says Geraldine Cotton , chair of the 5,500-strong English Association of Women Solicitors . |
| 9 | So maybe that 's why it 's not come to light before . |