Example sentences of "[noun pl] have come to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The van I used to use to transport my bikes has come to the end of its day , and Bill Doig has very kindly offered me the use of the station van if it is not required for company duties . ’ |
| 2 | Overall , more than nine out of ten ( 93% ) of the very recent ( post-1976 ) publications issued to readers had come to the Library under copyright deposit legislation , the remainder having been acquired by purchase ( 6% ) or donation ( 2% ) . |
| 3 | Even Sir John Stokes , the bristle-brushed old gent for whom ‘ the twentieth century has been a mistake ’ , sat in the Commons representing the Birmingham dormitories of Halesowen and Stourbridge , where the closest most of his supporters had come to a foxhunt was a roadside cocktail lounge called the Whip and Saddle . |
| 4 | Edward VII thought it possible that his son might be the last British king , and during the reign of George V , Harold Nicolson reckoned that five emperors , eight kings and eighteen minor dynasties had come to an end . |
| 5 | Recently matters had come to a head . |
| 6 | Neither of his parents had come to the wedding . |
| 7 | The parents had come to the conclusion , after soliciting expert opinion , that her needs could best be met in a special ( and , as it happened , private ) school . |
| 8 | It was too late to begin to take action when the war fever had maddened the blood of the people , but if the warmongers in Germany and in this country knew beforehand that the working class of the two countries had come to an understanding , and would stand by it , the influence of that knowledge upon their counsels would be such as to compel them to submit to arbitration the points which would otherwise have been submitted to war . |
| 9 | At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains . |
| 10 | Most lion-watchers have come to the conclusion that the effect , when it happens , is a fortuitous one and that there is no predetermined strategy by which one or more lionesses take the job of driving while others deliberately wait in ambush . |
| 11 | Matters have come to a head with the publication of a new and more detailed insurance group rating system which insurers say will enable them to pinpoint the higher risk models more accurately . |
| 12 | Having grown up under the nose of the Israeli war machine , young Palestinians have come to the conclusion that , in the world they inhabit , might is right and the only way to survive and flourish is to be strong and violent . |
| 13 | It is clear that during the past twenty years developmental psychologists have come to the edge of a vast array of structural processes in the development of the mind , and an exciting era of experimental research has begun . |
| 14 | By May the cadets had come to the end of their training . |
| 15 | Things had come to a head in 1990 when a release extenxded a shut-down by several days at a cost of £250,000. a CAT , involving a wide cross-section of disciplines , was set up and reviewed incidents from 1987 onwards . |
| 16 | It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA . |
| 17 | By far the most popular months for marriage were October and November , when harvest was safely gathered in and the annual period of service for farm servants in the corn-growing regions had come to an end and wages had been paid . |
| 18 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 19 | Since Niyogi 's death , new members have come to the trade union . |
| 20 | Whether this will in practice make a great difference may be doubted , since it seems unlikely that a court will come to the conclusion that a chief constable of police has come to a decision that he could not reasonably arrive at , which is the critical test for the exercise of the powers of judicial review . |
| 21 | Psychic T V and video sculptures have come to the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford ; they form part of an exhibition of video , film and slide tape art across the past decade . |
| 22 | A ROAD-SWEEPER and Londonderry police have come to the rescue of a young Japanese tourist . |
| 23 | Others had come to the conclusion , however , that these feelings originated from within themselves : a blind person had started to ask himself , ‘ To whom am I proving what ? ’ |
| 24 | Few English monarchs have come to the throne in as strong a position as did James II . |
| 25 | In the process we have observed , two new urban phenomena have come to the fore : the outer city and the inner city , both urban environments with distinct challenges for planned regulation . |
| 26 | F contract er and the other E O E S F contracts have come to an end . |
| 27 | ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’ |
| 28 | Almost a million new jobs have come to the state since 1990 , many in pharmaceuticals and electronics , making up for the 1,000 jobs a month which have been lost in mature heavy industries . |