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

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1 Given these competing interests , the best he could propose was that the two governments should try to come to a prior understanding concerning each other 's needs and thereby avoid the formal commitments which the US Joint Chiefs feared might paralyse American forces at the start of hostilities .
2 In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion .
3 The difficulty is that we do not have enough evidence to come to a sure conclusion .
4 The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF .
5 Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain .
6 ‘ Do you want to come to a Finnish film festival at the ICA tomorrow ? ’ asks Pamela .
7 A special US committee has been convened to come to a final decision about the fate of the spotted owl and its habitat of old growth forests in south-west Oregon .
8 From our point of view we 're not in the position and it would be totally wrong of us actually to try in public to deal with those or to come to a specific conclusion about any particular proposal .
9 It has been deemed just , in consideration of the share borne by the Servians in this war , to come to a solemn agreement respecting their security .
10 It is difficult to come to a firm view on these matters , but the nature of support for third parties is clearly of particular significance and affords a crude test of the Alt view — especially in the case of new parties where there can be no established sense of partisan identification .
11 It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment .
12 We said it would be difficult , erm and that discussion has proved how difficult it is to come to a firm conclusion .
13 It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there .
14 Their on-off relationship , which seemed to come to a sudden end two years ago , was re-kindled earlier this year with a romantic holiday to Mauritius .
15 The Company 's management evidently came to the conclusion that the only effective way to avoid the expense of lifting the rails , was to come to a speedy agreement with the L.C.C .
16 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 .
17 He trained a bee to come to a particular source ( black in the fig. ) ; and then put out seven similar food sources at various distances from the hive .
18 That connection was now leaderless and it was in the interests of both the affinity and Gloucester to come to a rapid agreement .
19 That connection was now leaderless and it was in the interests of both the affinity and Gloucester to come to a rapid agreement .
20 And we now have got the first step er sorry not , not strictly speaking , the first steps of course were economic th that we had a strategic embargo and an economic embargo er on er on the Serbs and er on , on the er the , the different regions er th the first military step however is air strikes and we 'll know er within a week I think whether in fact this step will be actually taken or whether the threat is sufficient to induce er the belligerents to come to a negotiated settlement .
21 But , as it is , the 325i scrapes by as a comfortable four-seater with the proviso that four tall occupants will have to come to a front/rear legroom compromise that would n't even need to think about in a Peugeot 405 .
22 It will also help you if you are rejected as you will be too busy planning for the next project to allow yourself to come to a full stop .
23 If it were to come to a physical fight with Nutty McTavish he doubted if he would win , for she was a formidable thirteen-year-old with a fighting spirit unmatched by any of her male counterparts in the class .
24 In the last game when we lost two players in the same position the last thing I wanted was to come to a quick decision with my brain still buzzing after a training session .
25 It wo n't help us to come to a proper decision quickly . ’
26 Last year SmithKline Beecham , who make Ribena , were forced to come to a secret cash deal with a dozen families who threatened a court case claiming their children 's teeth were rotted by the so-called ‘ healthy ’ baby drink .
27 Yet while it may not be possible , in a given case , to come to a clear decision one way or the other , it can not , I shall argue , be coherently assumed that a decision is logically impossible and at the same time insisted that the object in question exists in an ontological sense .
28 Bishop Konstant says : ‘ On the larger issue we will need time , information and guidance to come to a clear understanding of the morality of such situations .
29 And he wanted all the girls who were interested to come to the great city .
30 A systematic and documented approach will be more cost effective , auditable and more likely to come to the right conclusions .
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