Example sentences of "[noun sg] come to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only needs one horse to come to a stud or livery yard premises incubating the disease to start a large outbreak . |
| 2 | A confrontation came to a head on Nov. 18 between Benazir Bhutto , the former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) and of the People 's Democratic Alliance ( PDA ) coalition , and the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif . |
| 3 | If the yeast foods caused you to have an abdominal reaction , then you may find the weight loss came to a standstill this week . |
| 4 | The horse came to a stop before the porch , and the old servant got down and lugged her portmanteau out of the boot . |
| 5 | ‘ Suddenly the programme came to a halt and it was announced that the King had died , ’ recalls John Rusby , who was a seven-year-old pupil at Cockton Hill Infant School , Bishop Auckland . |
| 6 | Then the carriage came to a curve in the track and the window could be seen no more . |
| 7 | At about a hundred yards , the car came to a halt . |
| 8 | By this route , indirect and long drawn out as it had been , the long history of capital punishment for murder came to a conclusion . |
| 9 | Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky . |
| 10 | Mounting discontent came to a head over a professional insurance scheme which Fimbra attempted to force on all its members . |
| 11 | Her discontent came to a head with the beginning of spring . |
| 12 | The conflict between the king and the archbishop came to a head in the parliament of April 1341 . |
| 13 | PLAY came to a halt when Ken Beach injured his foot playing against Windsor Buzzards in Division One of the Clacton and District Table Tennis League . |
| 14 | The simmering antagonism came to a head when the French Secret Service bombed the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in 1985 . |
| 15 | Almost immediately the truck came to a stop . |
| 16 | The sing-song accent came to a stop and he shook my hand and let himself out , a grey man in grey clothes following his own informal idiosyncratic path towards the truth . |
| 17 | Uncertainties over the church 's Trinitarian teaching came to a head under Constantine , who thought himself divinely commissioned to secure the church 's unity . |
| 18 | The Hiss case came to a climax at a moment when the confidence of Americans in the strength of their world position had been shaken by a series of events abroad . |
| 19 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 20 | Only when the soldiers moved opposite the Palestinian front line at Galerie Semaan — and the familiar crackle of Beirut rifle fire began to make the troops nervous — did the Syrian column come to a halt as if scarcely able to take in its objectives . |
| 21 | A growing scandal over illegal funding of the PS and of Mitterrand 's 1988 presidential re-election campaign came to a head in April . |
| 22 | The increasing friction between Braun and the City Council came to a head last month when proposals for a large sculpture garden , which was to be financed completely by the Overholland Foundation , again did not find the support from the City Council that Braun was hoping for . |
| 23 | To make matters worse a crisis in the Council came to a head . |
| 24 | When the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union Canal was being constructed to link the River Trent with the Grand Junction Canal at Northampton , and thus with London , work came to a halt at Gumley due to disputes about the proposed route and the high cost of constructing a tunnel through the hillside between Gumley and Foxton . |
| 25 | This question came to a head in the classification of the animal kingdom , where fundamental debates took place in the early decades of the new century . |
| 26 | In Durham the engine came to a halt to take on more coal and water . |
| 27 | The basket came to a stop . |
| 28 | you see the coach come to a standstill and then all the people screaming and trying to get out so I pulled over and just sort of done my best to get 'em out . |
| 29 | The small town came to a standstill as the two coffins were carried from the family home on Markethill Road . |
| 30 | A MINING town came to a standstill as thousands of pitmen and their supporters marched in protest at plans to close a colliery and sack 730 miners . |