Example sentences of "[noun sg] had come to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole thing had come to a horrible head and a lot of hurt has been suffered by both of them throughout the summer . |
| 6 | By 1982 ( the EC 's 25th birthday ) the momentum for a Single European Market had come to a virtual standstill . |