Example sentences of "[noun] has 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 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |