Example sentences of "not come to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them . |
| 2 | If Oliver had not come to France with her the playing might have gone further . |
| 3 | Minton 's sharpest critic was David Sylvester who , having admired his Painter and Model at the Contemporary Art Society exhibition earlier that year , damned the portraits at the Lefevre for their lack of reality ; Minton , he argued , had not come to grips with appearances because he had failed to detach his faculties of observation from his interest in the sitters ' personalities . |
| 4 | Law firms have not come to grips with the issues , ’ says Geraldine Cotton , chair of the 5,500-strong English Association of Women Solicitors . |
| 5 | Becker 's surprising defeat by Spain 's Jordi Burillo in Barcelona last week suggests the former Wimbledon and world champion has still not come to terms with playing on the European clay , which predominates to the end of the French Open in early June . |
| 6 | Anyone who has ever suffered at the hands of military pomposity will relish the story of General Patton inspecting a hospital in France and screaming abuse at a man for not coming to attention in his presence , only to be told ‘ Run along , asshole . |
| 7 | Either side of the Refuge , time closed in , with meetings , the children to be looked after , books to be read , until she felt light-headed with the sense of not coming to grips with anything , of being forced to spin like a top . |
| 8 | The case did not come to trial until 1963 . |
| 9 | The three did not come to trial until last week when they were each imprisoned for four years . |
| 10 | The Ryder Cup will not come to Spain in 1993 ? |
| 11 | They do not come to school as empty vessels . |
| 12 | The judge 's decision means that the case will not come to court before early 1991 , when the issues will be decided in the context of the individual cases . |
| 13 | The only regret was that her parents could not come to England for her commissioning , though a report in the Australian War Cry announced that she had come " Dux " of the session and had trained the women cadets for the timbrel play at the commissioning . |
| 14 | Kark Weschke , at the Redfern Gallery , is Expressionist in a more orthodox fashion — not surprisingly , since he was born in Germany in 1925 and did not come to England until 1948 . |
| 15 | Yet of course many projects do not come to fruition for very many years , and large important projects lead to adverse short-term cash flows . |
| 16 | But he could not come to terms with the climate . |
| 17 | ‘ Part of the problem is that I can not come to terms with my image . |
| 18 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
| 19 | John of Anagni threatened to lay an interdict on France if Philip did not come to terms with Henry , but Philip was unmoved and observed that the legate 's money bags were obviously full of English silver . |
| 20 | For the moment , however , we should recognise that the concern to strengthen intra-party democracy through constitutional reforms designed to hold the Parliamentary Labour Party accountable to the rank and file may do little to ensure that any future Labour Government delivers of its manifesto ( and possibly socialist ) promises since these reforms do not come to terms with power , the state , and the market . |
| 21 | While encouraging westernized intelligentsias , he did not come to terms with their nationalisms , whether he was lecturing in South Africa ( 1949 ) , advising on local government in Tanganyika ( 1950 ) , observing the Seretse Khama [ q.v. ] affair in Bechuanaland ( 1951 ) , or surveying the possibilities for a Central African Federation ( 1952 ) . |
| 22 | They just can not come to terms with the death of the Lancashire coalfield . |
| 23 | But unlike them she did not come to office during a wartime emergency nor head a coalition government . |
| 24 | But he simply does not come to grips with the genuine political and cultural difficulty of establishing effective institutions for research in applied sciences , such as agriculture and medicine , which can not be seeded entirely by individual commitment and talent . |
| 25 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 26 | People usually start to feel better about a problem when they have some explanation for it , but hang-ups relating to very early patterns of relating between mother and baby which we have been describing may not come to light within the time normally allowed for this type of treatment . |
| 27 | ‘ But I have n't come to Liverpool to be number two . |
| 28 | After all , how can anyone sort out their problems if they have n't come to grips with themselves ? ’ |
| 29 | And yet we have n't come to terms with that . |
| 30 | At that time she had n't come to terms with them , ’ he recalls . |