Example sentences of "[noun pl] do not come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because many illnesses and deaths in developing countries do not come to the attention of doctors , who are anyway ill-informed about the effects of pesticides , real casualty figures must be higher . |
| 2 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |
| 3 | If men trained in the learned profession did not , perhaps , scale such heights in the later sixteenth century , at the same time the crossing of career lines did not come to a halt . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She wants to be careful if the Japs do n't come to Pearl Harbour again . |
| 6 | ‘ Movie stars do n't come to New York to say they 're available . ’ |
| 7 | While Britain got used to Wilson , the Americans did n't come to terms with the post-Kennedy era . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This explains why cases do not come to court when the conditions of my comically weak description of the explicit extension of our legal conventions are met , which is most of the time . |
| 10 | The proceedings did not come to the defendant 's notice until after she returned from the United States . |
| 11 | But the nuts did n't come to her house . |