Example sentences of "[to-vb] to a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew he had to come to a decision before he went back down , he wanted to come to a decision before he went back down . |
| 2 | He knew he had to come to a decision before he went back down , he wanted to come to a decision before he went back down . |
| 3 | Naidoo reiterated that the NSC was expecting Sacu to come to a decision and could not ease it for them by offering guarantees of future tours . |
| 4 | He seemed to come to a decision and stared hard at Jack Stone . |
| 5 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 6 | He argued that to implement a ‘ Non-Alignment Pact ’ in a civil war between an incumbent government supported by one Great Power and insurgents supported by another Great Power ‘ a coalition government must be formed comprising those elements of both Government and insurgent forces which are prepared to come to a compromise and work together in the context of non-alignment ’ . |
| 7 | As in so many debates on the nature and location of power in Britain it is not possible to come to a firm and lasting conclusion as to the nature of prime ministerial power relative to the position of the cabinet since Prime Ministers have always differed in their degree of command of the cabinet . |
| 8 | It 's very difficult to quantify those sorts of effects and er to members and the decision makers have to come to a judgement as best they can , given the information that 's before them . |
| 9 | The decline in house prices is likely to come to a halt as vendors become more reluctant to accept distress prices . |
| 10 | There has been some focusing on why people may not be able to come to a CAB and which groups may be affected . |
| 11 | We want our children to come to a love and respect of all God 's people . |
| 12 | It only needs one horse to come to a stud or livery yard premises incubating the disease to start a large outbreak . |
| 13 | A talk to probation officers will indirectly reach a section of the community — prisoners — who are not able to come to a bureau and may be seriously in need of a bureau 's services , as was seen in Chapter 3 . |
| 14 | And then you will tell him to come to a place that I will tell you of and at a time that I will tell you . |
| 15 | which we did , and I 'm pleased to say that they endorsed that that general position , in other words their not going to come to a conclusion whether or not they should take any part in the proceedings , whether they should intervene or seek to stop the project until much later in the day . |
| 16 | You have to come to a conclusion and Professor er described how we 've had to come to a conclusion . |
| 17 | Having travelled the ‘ road from revolutionary elitism to proletarian populism ’ , James ' American sojourn was about to come to an end but , before it did , he would write ‘ Mariners , Renegades and Castaways ’ in which he expressed his poetic view of the world through an interpretation of the works of Herman Melville . |
| 18 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 19 | Although WG and AY had failed to come to an agreement before the trial began , a settlement was reached after more than two weeks of opening arguments . |
| 20 | They then have to come to an appointment and be interviewed . |
| 21 | Erm , members who are also members of the Business Grants Panel will recall that at the December meeting we agreed to grant to a company so he may relocate into the area creating twenty seven jobs , and Friday we learnt that relocation 's to go ahead to Telford . |
| 22 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 23 | Adolescents seem to find it harder , though , to relate to a step-father when they already have a good relationship with a non-custodial father . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the SPD , like Labour , has been nervous in calling for a complete recasting of public financing and altering both tax and expenditure profiles to fit with a post-cold war world while attempting to relate to an electorate that believes it is paying too many direct and indirect taxes as well as ever-rising social security and health insurance payments . |
| 25 | This is hardly the best example to set to an electorate that is constantly being urged to display pay and other financial restraints . |
| 26 | If detailed semantic and syntactical analysis of words in a commercial contract is going to lead to a conclusion that flouts business common sense , it must be made to yield to business common sense ( The Antaios [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 229 at 233 ) . |
| 27 | The routes to satisfaction are patterned by internal or dispositional constraints so that the behaviours concerned tend to lead to an end that is characteristic of a species . |
| 28 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 29 | It is possible to book alarm calls , make transferred charge calls , telephone for travel information , for the time , the weather , or just to listen to a story or some music ! |
| 30 | At last Foreman came back , pulling up a chair beside them like some benevolent uncle ready to listen to a story or tell a merry tale . |