Example sentences of "[noun] have come to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 2 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 3 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
| 4 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 5 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 6 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 7 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 8 | The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people . |
| 9 | Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ? |
| 10 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
| 11 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |
| 12 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 13 | In the name of Allah , things have come to a pretty pass if the tabloids are influencing England 's selection policy . |
| 14 | But things have come to a pretty pass when obesity is confused with the wobbly bits the good Lord designed for girls — the bits that should stick out at the front and back of a strapless ballgown . |
| 15 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 16 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 17 | For a communist militant who had devoted his life to the struggle against fascist barbarism and oppression , the revelation that the Soviet communist state had come to a private agreement with Hitler 's Nazi Germany was a mortal body blow . |
| 18 | Fifteen yards down the street , the man had come to an uncertain halt , his eyes searching both sides of the street for a glimpse of his prey . |
| 19 | I know this caused an immense amount of debate at Personnel sub-committee , and I thought that Personnel sub-committee had come to a reasonable solution . |
| 20 | ‘ The whole thing had come to a horrible head and a lot of hurt has been suffered by both of them throughout the summer . |
| 21 | Her voice trailed away as she saw that Laura had come to an abrupt halt beside her . |
| 22 | The Nigerian adventure had come to an abrupt end with the arrival of a new military government and a ban on all imports . |
| 23 | Of course , many people concerned with language teaching have come to a similar conclusion . |
| 24 | By 1982 ( the EC 's 25th birthday ) the momentum for a Single European Market had come to a virtual standstill . |