Example sentences of "[vb -s] come to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before the slide forward has come to a stop , pull your rear guard hand back slightly in order to augment the snap punch . |
| 2 | This is sometimes taken to show that the process of monopolisation has come to a halt . |
| 3 | Whether this will in practice make a great difference may be doubted , since it seems unlikely that a court will come to the conclusion that a chief constable of police has come to a decision that he could not reasonably arrive at , which is the critical test for the exercise of the powers of judicial review . |
| 4 | Time has come to a standstill . |
| 5 | Mr Mawlawi added : ‘ The relief effort has come to a standstill . |
| 6 | This has come to a head with EEC obstructionist moves at the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations which were meant to reach a conclusion by 1990 but which would now appear to have collapsed . |
| 7 | Well , the SAAF has come to a conclusion that others have long held — the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota ! |
| 8 | I think he has come to a rendezvous . |
| 9 | IN THE tunnel between Gloucester Road and Earls Court , the train-supposedly bound for Richmond-has come to a halt : 25 minutes pass , a hot , cross silence broken only by the coughs and tuts and groans and rattling Evening Standards of disgruntled passengers ( sorry , ‘ customers ’ ; London Underground now wishes to refer to the sad user of the subterranean network as a ‘ customer , ’ dictionary definition : n. one who buys ) . |
| 10 | Actually it 's come to a point where as Palestinian women in this country whenever we hear the word feminism , it 's very negative to us because we immediately identify it with Western feminism . |