Example sentences of "come to [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Because of the weakness of data it is difficult to come to definite conclusions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | We had to pay transport costs for her to come to recording sessions |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But I am sure that we should get on better if we were to come to some terms with them " . |
| 9 | 10–12 After consideration it was unanimously agreed that the Session see no cause to come to any findings upon the report meantime . |
| 10 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 11 | Even though the subject matter may be such that it is difficult to come to rapid conclusions by , say , an objective test , the question should still be asked so that the teacher can explain to himself in all honesty what he is about . |
| 12 | Mr Nick Mitchell , the head of personnel for the signals and telecommunications section , said the board had come to certain conclusions about pay and conditions for its 7,000 S&T engineers after a review of manpower and reward systems . |
| 13 | Reports from the OECD and NATO 's science committee have come to similar conclusions , but so far no one has quite got it together to act on a Europe wide scale . |
| 14 | This empirical and time consuming search for an effective strategy was mentioned by many arts interviewees , although every advisory teacher appears to have come to similar conclusions ultimately about which classroom practices were effective and which not . |
| 15 | He also knows that of 13 British chancellors since 1957 , all but two — one of them John Major himself — have come to sticky ends : sacked ( as Norman Lamont was on May 27th ) , removed by electoral defeat , forced to resign in high dudgeon . |
| 16 | If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action . |
| 17 | The brush was all brown as though autumn had come to these islands where there is no autumn but only a more dangerous summer , but that was because the leaves had all been blown away . |
| 18 | The sociologists of knowledge … may well have come to erroneous conclusions ; but they have at least attempted in some measure , to solve the philosophical problem that results from the existence of competitive social-world [ theoretical ] systems . |
| 19 | ‘ Some people ’ had argued that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide had serious implications for the climate , but the committee had not come to any conclusions on that . |
| 20 | Er and I again I have to say that we have not come to any conclusions about the new settlement , but certainly if there is to be a new settlement , then generally people would like more certainty . |
| 21 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |
| 22 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 23 | When it came to new furnishings , people usually they found it difficult to say why apart from ‘ I got it because I liked it ’ , or ‘ I got it because it was cheap ’ . |
| 24 | It has its disadvantages in one 's daily life , and I remember now that I described this in At Mrs L 's — how Julia was like that and her family found it tiring and annoying , because she came to everything freshly and without preconceived opinions , and wasted time and came to odd conclusions because nothing was taken for granted . |
| 25 | According to preliminary UN estimates , the total food aid requirement for the region came to 3,800,000 tonnes , the highest estimate ever made , surpassing by far the average requirement of 1,400,000 tonnes in each of the three years 1987 , 1988 and 1989 . |
| 26 | In addition , many schools were failing ‘ to venture beyond undemanding popular authors or books associated with favourite television characters ’ when it came to encouraging children to read novels . |
| 27 | Though after 1870 all forms of modernism were condemned within the Roman Catholic Church , and St G. Mivart ( who had shown sympathies with Darwinism ) was excommunicated , other churches and parties came to various degrees of accommodation with contemporary thought . |
| 28 | Gaston 70 came to similar conclusions in a study of peer review , although he cautioned that the relationship between productivity and recognition is not straightforward . |
| 29 | Gaston came to similar conclusions in a study of peer review , although he cautioned that the relationship between productivity and recognition is not straightforward . |
| 30 | Some years later , Crook and Elliot ( 1980 ) conducted a similar review and came to similar conclusions , suggesting that social class is a confounding variable that has led to a spurious association in some studies between loss and depression . |