Example sentences of "come to [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Miss were you able to come to any view as to whether the call was genuine , from what you heard ?
2 Whether he would have come to that conclusion if the building was betting-shop is an interesting thought , but we ‘ ve been delighted to go along with his judgement .
3 But half the ex-Yugoslavs who have come to Western Europe since the start of the Balkan fighting have not applied for asylum .
4 The brush was all brown as though autumn had come to these islands where there is no autumn but only a more dangerous summer , but that was because the leaves had all been blown away .
5 You 've had this video now and I 've come to this school since you started this school , so you should know more about Stranger Danger than other schools cos I keep coming every year and talking to you about it .
6 These authorities , be they judges , constitutional lawyers or senior political scientists , have come to this view as they have been forced to ponder on two things .
7 Claire Robinson in her affidavit deposes that all parties were in agreement that the court on 16 February had not come to any opinion as to whether or not Mr. Bell had broken or was likely to break any condition of his bail .
8 And finally can I reemphasise that we have not come to any conclusion as to which road we shall go down on this one .
9 I went back to the beginning and started over , but had n't come to any conclusion when I reached the sign telling me that the Florabelle served the thickest steak in five counties .
10 It has its disadvantages in one 's daily life , and I remember now that I described this in At Mrs L 's — how Julia was like that and her family found it tiring and annoying , because she came to everything freshly and without preconceived opinions , and wasted time and came to odd conclusions because nothing was taken for granted .
11 He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken .
12 → The Chicago based Harmony company came to real prominence after it was acquired by the USA 's foremost mail order firm Sears , Roebuck in 1916 .
13 The two schools came to different conclusions because they asked different kinds of questions and had different views as to what counted as an explanation , and of how an explanation should be evaluated .
14 He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance .
15 He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance .
16 We know very little about how the experience of ageing will vary between those who came to this country a-s economic migrants and the indigenous population .
17 The Indian woman was born in Kerala , Southern India , and came to this country when she was six .
18 During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering .
19 The midwife toad came to public notice when , in the early years of this century , the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer announced that he had persuaded the toads to breed once more in water and that , as a consequence of this , they had re-evolved nuptial pads .
20 In 1846 he joined the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , of which he was president for eighteen years , and immediately came to public attention as principal signer of a set of ‘ resolutions and a memorial [ to MPs ] adopted at a meeting of gentlemen deputed from various parts of the United Kingdom to represent the sentiments of the inhabitants in their respective districts , on the subject of colonial slavery ’ .
21 Those seeds came to full flower when we attempted to analyse the consequences of the act of measurement .
22 a customer comes in and he was my wife I did n't have er beard then I was clean-shaven , because after coming to this country when I could n't get a job , I thought that this might be a bar so , which was n't right , but we did it .
23 You 'll come to that Geoff if you 're lucky .
24 Deputy Assistant Commissioner Tony Speed stressed : ‘ Do not come to central London if you can think of another way of celebrating New Year . ’
25 She 'll come to some harm if she does n't look out . ’
26 The last straw for the soldiers was not so much their own suffering as the perception that the home and hearth which , ostensibly , they were fighting to defend , was itself under threat : ‘ You would think they would come to some terms when they see the country in that state . ’
27 One is I do n't know whether any , any of you noticed but come to that part when I reached this book , and the whole load of jokes on this page are topical they 'll be appreciated by the audience at the time .
28 When it comes to such matters as the protection of creditors and third parties dealing with a company , the obvious way forward is for the Community to lay down in its Directives detailed rules which are to be given similar effect under national law in all member states .
29 For small cichlids it is possible , for example , to use nylon net curtains as gravel tidies , but these would be no good when it comes to large cichlids as they tend to get hold of the soft material and pull it out of place .
30 I , I was just going to say that the county surveyor said that everything comes to this committee before anything else happens , but of course it goes to the press before it comes to this committee and that shows with , with the
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