Example sentences of "come to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five privy counsellors chosen to assist — the former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer , Lord ( Anthony ) Barber ; the one-time Labour Cabinet minister , Lord ( Harold ) Lever ; Sir Patrick Nairne , the delightful former permanent secretary and master of St Catherine 's Oxford ; James Callaghan 's home secretary , Merlyn Rees ; and the industrialist and Conservative politician , Lord ( Harold ) Watkinson were unlikely to come to radical conclusions . |
| 2 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 3 | Because of the weakness of data it is difficult to come to definite conclusions . |
| 4 | All this information is related to molecular structure , but it is rarely possible to come to definite conclusions about the constitution , shape , size or conformation of a sample purely from its PE spectrum . |
| 5 | There are also mobile teams who travel to outlying communities so that people do not all have to come to one centre . |
| 6 | Now , if the Liaison Office had got the same number from Maxim , then the embassy gossip vine had to be more security-minded than she believed possible for it not to come to one conclusion . |
| 7 | So far , I am happy to say that in the case of children — I was about to come to that exception — and in the case of rape victims , the balance that Parliament has chosen , in that it has granted exceptions in those cases , has proved to be an effective one . |
| 8 | I assure my hon. Friend that I was going to come to that issue , which is important . |
| 9 | But I feel you have enough evidence in front of you to come to that conclusion . |
| 10 | Are you satisfied that you 've done enough examination of your existing towns and villages to come to that conclusion ? |
| 11 | Here he elaborates on an argument sketched out a few years earlier , that the label ‘ postmodern ’ denoted the quality of being ‘ free to come to new terms with both realism and anti-realism , linearity and non-linearity , continuity and discontinuity ’ . |
| 12 | We had to pay transport costs for her to come to recording sessions |
| 13 | Because it was easy to launch them , a great diversity of colonies sprang up and usually they were neither compelled by any external danger nor persuaded by any liking for their neighbours to come to closer terms with one another . |
| 14 | Town and country planning were important symbols of the more farsighted and strategic uses of planning , of necessity areas which would take years to come to full fruition . |
| 15 | Some of the warnings in Roger Bullock 's chapter about faulty use of information are demonstrated in the points made by Martin Knapp about the use of cost information to come to flawed conclusions . |
| 16 | I know there are people here in the audience that use used to come to classical music concerts , horrendously expensive even with the Eastern orchestral board 's subsidy . |
| 17 | Not because he particularly approves of the exploitation of Henderson Island , but because he hopes that this latest development will force the government to come to some decision about the future of Pitcairn . |
| 18 | Her head pounded , forcing her to come to some decision . |
| 19 | We have to come to some kind of deal with the trade unions in this complex interim period . |
| 20 | ‘ All the same , it makes sense to come to some kind of agreement about this . |
| 21 | ‘ The rich have got to come to some accommodation with the poor . |
| 22 | They were the North Riding Authority , er the East Riding Authority , the West Riding Authority , all of which converged on the on the city of York , and as you read through the files , er you will see that even then the D O E were trying to get erm those er those predecessor authorities in the late fifties , early sixties er to come to some view about what ought to be better for Greater York , so for many years the idea of Greater York ha has been current er in one guise or another . |
| 23 | Young Anna is going to be well heeled but she will have to come to some arrangement with Beryl and Beryl would prefer , much , to deal with the devil himself . |
| 24 | There 's a special job Preston 's engaged on and I want to come to some arrangement with him — there should be room for both of us — if you would be good enough to tell me when your husband is likely to be back — " |
| 25 | And then if er you want a so solicitor with you on that day we 'll have to come to some arrangement with you privately about the costs . |
| 26 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 27 | But I am sure that we should get on better if we were to come to some terms with them " . |
| 28 | ’ … but even were we able to come to some agreement with the authorities at Cullbridge Comprehensive , they would demand , would they not , a quid pro quo ? |
| 29 | Well , we 're anxious that there is n't an escalation of this crisis , that it may be dealed with as Brigadier Harbottle has written in a letter to the Guardian today , dealt with , er more through first of all an attempt by the Arab nations to come to some agreement amongst themselves and agreement which will satisfy them and be a more long-lasting one . |
| 30 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that while Jean-Marie Le Pen is legally entitled to come to this country , his obnoxious views on racism , immigration and nationality mean that he is simply not welcome in this country ? |