Example sentences of "came to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective . |
| 2 | Preston thought about this and came to no satisfactory conclusion . |
| 3 | He came to no more meals , and Roland feared Fergus thought this was a function of his , Roland 's , resentment . |
| 4 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 5 | A little farther on she came to a small white cottage , in the porch of which stood a nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor . |
| 6 | All went well until she came to a small boy in the second row . |
| 7 | They came to a small green gate half-buried in the hedge on the right and almost hidden by the overhanging hazel branches . |
| 8 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 9 | They sailed round the shoreline of the harbour until they came to a small bay with a large waterfall over which cascaded the purest water . |
| 10 | Then , after quite a while , we came to a small clearing . |
| 11 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 12 | And then she came to a small rise in the land and there was a man , his head under his arm . |
| 13 | IN APRIL 1987 , THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE CAME TO A small room in Geneva , Switzerland . |
| 14 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 15 | He came to a wide gap which had been trodden into mud by cattle . |
| 16 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 17 | In 1981 a report to the European Parliament by P. de Keersmaeker of the European Commission expressed wholehearted support for the principle of a fixed link , and in the same year reports based on consultations with the Council of Europe 's Conference of Local and Regional Authorities came to a similar conclusion both about the fixed link and other gaps in the European network of trunk communications . |
| 18 | Consultants appointed to study the implications for the container port of Felixstowe came to a similar conclusion but its owners , P&O , have nevertheless embarked on a £50m project to upgrade facilities by the end of the year . |
| 19 | A recent study of square-headed brooches came to a similar conclusion ( Hines 1984 , p. 180 ) ; they could be divided into three phases on the basis of their distribution : general , localised and , finally , more numerous and widespread . |
| 20 | Nobay ( 1970 ) came to a similar conclusion , and found a relationship between the change in output beyond ‘ capacity ’ and manufacturing fixed investment . |
| 21 | Pension Scheme case [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 717 , the court came to a similar conclusion : see 4.3 . |
| 22 | If it came to a straight choice between a dolphin and Henry ( and in Henry 's view things had already got that serious ) he would go for Henry every time . |
| 23 | If it came to a straight cash contest , Blackburn can leave the rest standing . |
| 24 | I did not know whom I might meet there , and cramped as I as I did not fancy my chances at running away if it came to a straight chase on a hard surface . |
| 25 | Whenever the circus came to a new town he used to dress up in his costume and go out into the streets with a clown on stilts and do a turn . |
| 26 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 27 | When orders came to a new appointment there were regrets all round . |
| 28 | Both of us nearly ended up blasting each other but came to a reasonable compromise instead — which is the true story of our lives . |
| 29 | In Newcastle she came to a self-service cafeteria and , with a cup of tea in her hand , went to an empty table . |
| 30 | But unfortunately this did not last for long as we came to a narrow , shallow strip of the river . |