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

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1 A systematic and documented approach will be more cost effective , auditable and more likely to come to the right conclusions .
2 At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him …
3 There are a hundred different ways of evaluating every piece of intelligence gathered so it is not hard to come to the wrong conclusions .
4 In any event we would like to know of any intending applicants for training , even if they are unable to come to the Potential Teachers ' Day .
5 We may forever want confidence that we have come to the ultimate facts about some physical process .
6 Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross .
7 Forced to examine the situation anew , I have come to the following conclusions :
8 In December 1990 it came to the other directors ' knowledge that M and another manager , Elizabeth Melon , the software sales manager , intended to start a new company and to take over the distribution of the Boeing software .
9 They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon .
10 They came to the following conclusions :
11 They then analysed over 800 one-month spreads for 62 months and came to the following conclusions :
12 And as they came to the final furlongs it was Roc de Prince , Laura 's Beau , Sure Metal going for the line and then on the outside , up came New Mill House .
13 And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London .
14 And the storm went on and on and on ; when finally relief came to the exhausted crews , it seemed the only recourse was to turn tail and head for home .
15 He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year .
16 Sammy Davis Jnr also came to the fore thanks to Sinatra .
17 In my judgment , both Potts J. and Phillips J. came to the right conclusions for the right reasons .
18 When it came to the major events in the life of that other world outside Baldersdale , such as Christmas , the celebrations were muted , to say the least .
19 He ran on until he came to the tall reeds .
20 He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book .
21 The commonplace accusations of medieval anti- feminism came to the Middle Ages as an ecclesiastical tradition .
22 Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added .
23 According to the former , Molla Edebali , a native of Karaman , came to the Ottoman lands and there won the complete confidence of Osman so that the latter " used to refer to him problems in the Seriat and to consult with him in matters of government " .
24 He then came to the Ottoman domains , an event which Asikpasazade and Nesri assign to the reign of Mehmed I ( 816–24/1413–21 ) .
25 The bream came to the lone anglers swim first and he blanked too .
26 When we came to the German trenches there was nothing to see .
27 So you can see Chairman the facts and figures simply do not support either the report which came to the social services committee originally or Mr inflated figures .
28 I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time .
29 We still worked for our own papers but pooled our resources when it came to the human-interest pieces for the Sundays .
30 Now rugby union 's league season is coming to the final fences … three games to go and there 's better news of Gloucester … the Cherry and Whites who 've been fighting off the threat of relegation all season won at Northampton on saturday and should be safe …
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