Example sentences of "come [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm thinking about marketing my services on quality and relating to customers in a way that I 'd just begun to think of before but now it 's come right to the front . |
| 2 | Several times on my pilgrimage through Biomorph Land I seemed to come close to a precursor of my insects , but , then , in spite of my best efforts as a selecting agent , evolution went off on what proved to be a false trail . |
| 3 | Other day-to-day situations that may not be attributed to visual difficulties include the extended time the children may need to complete tasks , their need to come close to the blackboard or to demonstrations , and their apparent clumsiness in certain practical activities and sports such as ball games . |
| 4 | The celebration of Artai 's Khanate having properly commenced , the common people were anxious to come close to the path of their newly enthroned lord through their city . |
| 5 | People from Europe will want to come directly to the centre , so King 's Cross would bring greater benefits from tourism . |
| 6 | Although some patients do attend with a letter from their GP , many prefer to come directly to the clinic , as this saves time and possible embarrassment if they would rather that their family doctor did n't know about the particular problem . |
| 7 | He had come close to the mark in his various schemes for the inner cities , but he had always taken great care not to overstep the boundary . |
| 8 | However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders . |
| 9 | A Lurgan solicitor who could speak menacing words in a slow quiet voice , he had come close to the leadership of the Unionist Party , had held cabinet office and retained good links with the paramilitaries and the workers ' leaders who had planned and organized the 1974 strike . |
| 10 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 11 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 12 | ‘ If I may , I 'd like to come straight to the point . |
| 13 | ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion . |
| 14 | Evans or Owens , the furniture man , who had come twice to the house , had been at least sixty then . |
| 15 | The dictum in the Mogul SS case ( ( 1889 ) 23 QBD 598 CA ) equating reasonableness with " the good sense of the tribunal " still seems to come closest to the mark . |
| 16 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 17 | Right at the outset , perhaps we can read a verse from one Timo , er two Timothy , chapter one and verse twelve and Paul says there , he 's come almost to the end of his life , he 's , he will shortly be , taken out and will be executed and he says , for this reason I also suffer these things . |
| 18 | He said to come upstairs to the flat only to fetch his jacket , and then they would go and eat and talk and maybe sit by the river . |
| 19 | The book becomes gripping once allows his own interests and opinions to come closer to the surface . |
| 20 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
| 21 | On the other hand , economists of the Austrian tradition ( e.g. Littlechild 1981 , 1989 ) have come closer to the laissez-faire view , partly as a consequence of their different interpretation of profit . |
| 22 | As the freight train came slowly to a halt at the loop stop signal near the box , the fireman told the signalman of their problem who in turn reported the incident to the train control . |
| 23 | Mr Phillips heard the noise , and came slowly to the front of the schoolroom . |
| 24 | Saint Cloud , situated on a hill dominating Paris , to which it was linked by a railway branch line which came right to the park of the palace , was certainly the — most delightful of all the Imperial properties . |
| 25 | There was a whiffle from Hector , and next instant the gentleman 's footsteps came swiftly to the door and Theda moved quickly away . |
| 26 | A small white shape darted through the line of torches and came swiftly to the earth wall around the village . |
| 27 | He came swiftly to the point . |
| 28 | A breathless Charlie managed to catch him up when he came finally to a halt behind a tree . |
| 29 | They came finally to a gap in the hedge on the left-hand side of the road where there was a five-barred gate . |
| 30 | He came rapidly to the conclusion that blood-letting , enemas and emetics weakened the already ill patients and could in no way help towards a cure , and he campaigned against such practices for most of his life . |