Example sentences of "[adv] come to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 2 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 3 | Well , that was when it had all come to a head . |
| 4 | The young man stroked his chin , and then apparently came to a decision . |
| 5 | But Crosby 's future only came to a head this week when he reacted angrily to claims of an approach for Crystal Palace boss Steve Coppell . |
| 6 | With hindsight , there were ‘ rumblings ’ from some nursery nurses during the early stages of the course , but the matter only came to a head when a small group of nursery nurses made a formal complaint to a course tutor . |
| 7 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
| 8 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 9 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 10 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 11 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |
| 12 | The spectacular rise to power throughout the 1920s suddenly came to a halt , betrayed by the leaders who had inspired it . |
| 13 | So he suddenly came to a halt at the bottom of this stairs as it turned the corner , with the bottom of the wardrobe rammed into his chest , pinning him to the wall . |
| 14 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 15 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 16 | Also big trousers with big tops — it was all coming to an end , but it was still OK to wear them . |
| 17 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 18 | In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director . |
| 19 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 20 | I think one of the most valuable points that emerged from the Felixstowe experience , as far as I was concerned anyway was the fact that with all those people there when we heard their views , erm , it was quite apparent that it was n't the case of local people opposing what the County Council traffic people propose to do , many there were many different and varying interests there and , and we , we could , we can then basically come to a conclusion which satisfied , satisfied I hope most of them , but , we , we , at that meeting among the local people some supporters with some of our road safety and some were very much against them , others were neutral , but it was n't just a question of erm a , a united opposition of what we proposed to do er , and this was very valuable . |
| 21 | For Augustine , mystical experience operated in the gap between the Creator and creature , enabling man to recognise his own true nature and so come to a knowledge of God — a process possible only because of the Incarnation , the love poured out from the being of God to his creatures which revealed how He could be known . |
| 22 | He eventually came to a kind of theatre , which he also knew was Mandru 's morning room , expanded to vast proportion . |
| 23 | As it approached the boundary of the hole , it slowed down , until it eventually came to a halt ! |
| 24 | The long sermon eventually came to an end and shortly afterwards the young couple left the chapel as man and wife , to the applause of those who had witnessed the ceremony . |
| 25 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 26 | Of course , her letter has given me extra cause to continue thinking of her as ‘ Miss Kenton ’ , since it would seem , sadly , that her marriage is finally to come to an end . |
| 27 | War or no war , the Government 's other business had not come to a halt . |
| 28 | Reflecting the substantial barriers to international integration , prices have not come to an equilibrium across countries . |
| 29 | A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million . |
| 30 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |