Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] come to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In an organization , they may rarely come to the attention of a predominantly male management in ways that give them power and encouragement .
2 I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt .
3 Held , allowing the appeal , that although there was a strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence of an accused person it was the plain intention of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 that the powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office should not come to an end when the person under investigation had been charged ; and that , accordingly , she was entitled to compel the applicant to answer questions on pain of commission of a criminal offence under section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 if he did not do so and no caution was appropriate ( post , pp. 68F–H , 81C–F , 83E , 86H ) .
4 He must also come to an agreement with the customer with regard to performance characteristics , key schedule dates , costs , and funding .
5 It is time to take into account the feelings and views of the ‘ natives ’ and to make it quite clear that anyone who does not want to be part of the family should n't come to the house .
6 There are two main types of reason why people may not come to the CAB : physical ones and psychological ones .
7 ‘ Aye well , miss , if I do n't see her the night on the quiet , I 'll only come to the shop the morrow , an' I 'll put it plainly to her da . ’
8 They 'll all come to the tea .
9 It 's been developed in C++ and is known as Interviews , though it 'll probably come to the market as Fresco .
10 ( b ) Where however the prosecution evidence is such that its strength or weakness depends on the view to be taken of a witness 's reliability , or other matters which are generally speaking within the province of the jury and where on one possible view of the facts there is evidence upon which a jury could properly come to the conclusion that the defendant is guilty , then the judge should allow the matter to be tried by the jury .
11 He added : ‘ I would be very sad if we could not come to an agreement with the tanker owners .
12 I 'd just come to a point . ’
13 They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers .
14 Philip thought that maybe Mrs Wright 's friend was an invalid and could n't come to the door to open it .
15 Marie Claire had written to say she could n't come to the wedding and had sent a present of yet more tablecloths and napkins .
16 Traditional expectations and traditional assurances could again come to the fore .
17 I could never come to the situation where I would say we 're all equal .
18 We could never come to an understanding with the Communists …
19 It may also come to the rescue of ailing banks .
20 ‘ You need n't come to the house if you do n't wish to .
21 When she left the desert , and the Sandrat knew she would eventually come to the end of the sand , the face would be waiting for her .
22 Indeed , their conquerors would soon find him too much to handle , and his term of exile and the exile of his people would eventually come to an end .
23 If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice .
24 This is not because they would not come to the phone , it is because they were not there .
25 She would not come to the phone and failed to respond to a message .
26 She would not come to the phone and failed to respond to a message .
27 In explaining each point , I shall begin by posing a problem that the living machine faces ; then I shall consider possible solutions to the problem that a sensible engineer might consider ; I shall finally come to the solution that nature has actually adopted .
28 The sort of girls who would quickly come to the fore are the sort of Malory-Towers-Swallows-and-Amazons type ; practical down to earth and capable , but there would probably be many unlike that who would be perfectly handless when it came to organisation and practicalities .
29 In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham .
30 Eventually she agreed with me that no harm could come from using regression therapy , particularly when I assured her that , should she change her mind at any point , all she had to do was open her eyes and the session would automatically come to an end .
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