Example sentences of "[vb base] come to a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And they 've come to a judgement on those issues and their judgement is that erm they s should support the principle of a western route .
2 Outside , it 's still raining , and as we gallantly struggle to open our umbrella in the wind , we suddenly find we 've come to a halt beside a large black car , and a man in a smart suit is opening the door for us to get in .
3 ‘ I 've come to a decision , ’ he said .
4 ‘ I feel very angry that you 've come to a conclusion about me without discussing the matter with me . ’
5 People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds .
6 I 've come to a series of decisions .
7 No my my own view and it 's I I do n't know if I 've come to a view on the relative weight of those sorts of considerations er I I 'd need to think about it some more before I could come to a view on that .
8 You 've come to a number of those I guess ?
9 I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months .
10 Matters have come to a head with the publication of a new and more detailed insurance group rating system which insurers say will enable them to pinpoint the higher risk models more accurately .
11 For Machu Picchu is the closest I have come to a Mecca , a once-in-my-lifetime destination and , like the route to Mecca , each Inca trail has deep and hidden roots in a life long before one pins Cuzco on the map .
12 Nothing has happened today , except that we have come to a sort of agreement about exercise .
13 The lies , omissions , and distortions which used to characterise historical research and teaching have come to an end and , with every day , honesty about the past is capturing more territory .
14 F contract er and the other E O E S F contracts have come to an end .
15 FORTY years at Sellafield have come to an end for Harry Brocklebank , but he will not be short of news about the site .
16 The rival powers of men 's tennis — the International Tennis Federation and the Association of Tennis Professionals — have come to an agreement over umpiring at the Australian Open .
17 Once you have come to an agreement on an expectation , form it into an objective statement , eg , ‘ We will establish no precedent which caters mainly to the desires of one at the expense of the other ’ .
18 My friend the Mason and I have come to an agreement .
19 I have come to an arrangement for local dealers to have the fry when they are big enough .
20 Both are happy with the set-up and for people to know that they have come to an arrangement on leading separate lives .
21 At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains .
22 If they have come to an arrangement with British Rail under the bus substitution programme and they consider that they are not getting enough money , there will be no cosy chats or friendly discussions in the board room , they will be absolutely ruthless and cut the services .
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