Example sentences of "the [noun] come to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motorspeeder came to a sudden halt . |
| 2 | Last week , the case came to a sudden end . |
| 3 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 4 | The conflict between the king and the archbishop came to a head in the parliament of April 1341 . |
| 5 | The trail came to a dead end . |
| 6 | When the route comes to a flat area , a narrow track leads straight on and another heads left , turn right up the steep hill to the prominent summit of Meall a' Bhuachaille — the ‘ hill of the herdsmen ’ . |
| 7 | Almost immediately the truck came to a stop . |
| 8 | They 've got a lovely surprise at the wedding came to a a hotel you know |
| 9 | Before it struck home the chapter came to a hasty conclusion . |
| 10 | Then the carriage came to a curve in the track and the window could be seen no more . |
| 11 | Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky . |
| 12 | At about a hundred yards , the car came to a halt . |
| 13 | ‘ Suddenly the programme came to a halt and it was announced that the King had died , ’ recalls John Rusby , who was a seven-year-old pupil at Cockton Hill Infant School , Bishop Auckland . |
| 14 | The voices came to a halt directly above him . |
| 15 | The horse came to a stop before the porch , and the old servant got down and lugged her portmanteau out of the boot . |
| 16 | In Durham the engine came to a halt to take on more coal and water . |
| 17 | The basket came to a stop . |
| 18 | THE heatwave came to a dramatic end yesterday with an incredible downpour of rain in South-west England . |
| 19 | To make matters worse a crisis in the Council came to a head . |
| 20 | you see the coach come to a standstill and then all the people screaming and trying to get out so I pulled over and just sort of done my best to get 'em out . |
| 21 | On 4 December the session came to a formal close , presided over by Pope Paul . |
| 22 | At a place known in advance only to a few , the motorcade comes to a halt . |
| 23 | Then the Land-Rover came to a halt beside a rough jetty made of stacked boulders tied down with fencing wire , and there , backed against the cliff a short way above us , was the cottage . |
| 24 | Far from piling into Nolan in a preventative heap , they formed an instant ring around us and , as the band came to a straggling sharp-flat unscheduled halt , Lewis 's drunken aristocratic voice could be heard drawling , ‘ Five to four the field . ’ |
| 25 | In the cold light of day you come to realise that you just can not do it all the time , that the body comes to a point where , for the moment , it has had enough . |
| 26 | As the cart came to a halt he jumped out to help Joshua down . |
| 27 | It is not , as far as Beth or Lucy are concerned , about escape from tedium but about using the imagination to come to a provisional understanding of a view of reality . |
| 28 | The crisis came to a head on 27 June 1961 , when the British Embassy in Baghdad reported the movement of Iraqi troops and tanks from the capital to Basra . |
| 29 | As the crisis came to a head , however , the hunger strikers were persuaded to call off their action before anyone became seriously ill by promises of further investigations into their allegations of ‘ undemocratic ’ practices at the college . |
| 30 | Before the hoist came to a halt , the Twins were up and out of it , hopping lightly ashore and closing in on the woman , one either side of her . |