Example sentences of "[modal v] come to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had enough sense to realise that this was one argument that ought to come to a stop right now . |
| 2 | Diana , and then we ought to come to a decision . |
| 3 | So it 's six hundred , plus about half , which comes to a about nine hundred , should come to a bit less than nine hundred , and it does , so that 's almost certainly |
| 4 | ‘ If all the charities followed the Wolfson 's example , medical research should come to a standstill . ’ |
| 5 | If convincing contrary evidence is presented within that period , they should come to a settlement with the buyer . |
| 6 | So it should come to a little bit more than that one , should n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ Borrowers can pay more when rates move up , but they must come to a branch to make a specific request to do so . ’ |
| 8 | Schlieffen was dead by 1914 ( his dying words are reported to have been , ‘ It must come to a fight . |
| 9 | The information collected will be diverse and complex , and the assessor must come to a view as to the relative importance of different pieces of information and prioritize the information into a manageable , but valid , summary . |
| 10 | But pragmatism also allows progress to be made where a more analytic approach might come to a halt , faced with some intractable epistemological obstacle . |
| 11 | This , it was suggested , could lead to a situation of ‘ dual power ’ , which might come to a head over the ‘ nationalisation ’ of some foreign-owned factory which would be ‘ occupied ’ on behalf of the Irish nation . |
| 12 | Erm , the first one is a letter from Ron , he , he 's in Milton Keynes with his family at the moment , on holiday , and he will be missing this meeting action tomorrow and unfortunately the September Executive , erm , he 's reported on the erm market stall which I 'll come to a bit later , I ask you for details about that and for the enclose with it erm , a statement issued by the association nationally on pensioner 's and the Poll Tax . |
| 13 | If you go deeper through the water column you 'll come to a depth where all of the calcium carbonate has dissolved and that 's known as the carbonate compensation depth , or C C D the carbonate compensation depth . |
| 14 | Sees us clearly and reckons he 'll come to a stop more or less alongside . |
| 15 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
| 16 | Erm obviously you 've seen what Ro what Roy has put in and obviously you 'll come to a view on the position . |
| 17 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 18 | You are floating along a quiet river now , you do n't see the water boiling at the foot of the great rocks , but one day you 'll come to a point in life 's stream where the wild force of the waves may destroy you , where the noisy rushing water may drown you ! |
| 19 | On the road , though , it 'll come to a lot more than that . |
| 20 | Generalization which we 'll come to a lot later as well in a lot more depth er is very important in these systems . |
| 21 | You 'll come to a track where you turn right to bring you to the main road . |
| 22 | We 'll come to a strategy for coping with these differences in a moment . |
| 23 | ONE OF Darlington 's busiest streets could come to a standstill this morning as taxi drivers pay respect to a young colleague who died suddenly . |
| 24 | No my my own view and it 's I I do n't know if I 've come to a view on the relative weight of those sorts of considerations er I I 'd need to think about it some more before I could come to a view on that . |
| 25 | With her head down , concentrating on pushing the skis along and her mind happily listing the insults she 'd love to heap on his golden head , Shannon failed to notice that he 'd come to a halt just a couple of feet in front of her , till she cannoned straight into his solid bulk , her skis sliding neatly between his . |
| 26 | Yet without the material , the oil , chemical and food industries of the West would come to a standstill . |
| 27 | Er everything depending on the the the the work of the farm would come to a standstill if erm if the horses y if they were not kept in good condition , they would n't be strong enough to keep on going every day . |
| 28 | I thought it unlikely that it would come to a showdown about me being a lesbian , but felt clear that the chances of being disciplined were high . |
| 29 | The country would come to a halt if its 4m expatriate workers left . |
| 30 | She imagined that he would come to a halt , but his fingers began to explore inside her knickers , moving steadily towards her warm and willing crotch . |