Example sentences of "not [adv] come to " in BNC.

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1 In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director .
2 However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play .
3 I had not only come to faith .
4 It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light .
5 For an eleven year old schoolgirl , it 's not easy coming to terms with having a plastic eye .
6 The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end .
7 If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ?
8 AS has been pointed out in your magazine , the ITV coverage of the World Cup was very good , although promises that the BBC would be totally outshone did not really come to much .
9 France 's increased commitment to space , which dates from the late 1950s , did not really come to fruition until the late 1970s .
10 The task was not simply to come to terms with Wagner 's music drama , but to reconcile his theory of it with his actual practice .
11 Vidor was to confess that he had started ‘ with the definite idea ’ that he wanted ‘ to make a film that did not simply come to town to play three days or a week and then was forgotten ’ and it was always his conviction that the proper subjects for such a film would be the beauty of rural America and the fundamental decency of ordinary Americans .
12 If you scatter seed on the ground you will build up a substantial clientele of birds such as chaffinches which do not readily come to hanging food and birdtables .
13 Yet sterling 's stable performance , another slight easing of money market rates , rampant rumours of a favourable opinion poll and a firm performance among government issues all converged to tempt in the odd overseas bargain hunter , helping dealers convince themselves that the world is not about to come to an abrupt halt after all .
14 Solly Zuckerman and J. D. Bernal were roped into Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ) by Lord Louis Mountbatten , along with that lateral thinker Geoffrey Pyke ( New Scientist , 30 July 1981 , p 302 ) , the inventor of the giant iceberg ship Habbakuk and many other projects which did not quite come to fruition .
15 This attitude reflects badly on the conference service industry and demonstrates that it has still not fully come to terms with the need for quality and a caring approach in its business .
16 If you feel a client is talking crudely , you hake not yet come to terms with your own feeling that there is something crude about sex .
17 He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen .
18 The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis .
19 It is a truism to say that we have not yet come to terms with it , or with the changes in relationships it has brought .
20 A guilt compounded by the suicide five years ago of his sister Angela ( nine years his senior ) , with which he admits he has not yet come to terms .
21 The Journal suggests that while the companies have not yet come to an agreement , and that Approach has had several approaches , the combination could give Lotus a hot new product and a defensive weapon against recent moves by Borland International Inc and Microsoft Corp .
22 It had come from the London Group of members , but the Operations Department have not yet come to a decision on this .
23 The " literature " to which Playfair refers is , of course , classics rather than English literature ( which had not yet come to be seen as an adequate instrument of " culture " ) .
24 He has not yet come to a conclusion on that .
25 They were likely to make trouble , having not yet come to terms with the hurried departure of Mrs Thatcher following upon the events of November 1990 .
26 Any such application must be signed by the wife ( see the negligence case of Holmes v Kennard ( 1984 ) 128 SJ 854 ) if her rights of occupation have not otherwise come to an end .
27 Do n't just come to us because we can put your record out .
28 I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ?
29 Why do n't you sponsor you know , members who do n't normally come to meetings , to sponsor erm a site for
30 Being unable to travel ‘ up there ’ in time to review this splendid collection , the ‘ mountain ’ did n't exactly come to me , but we made a ‘ kitchen table ’ job of it … or nearly !
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