Example sentences of "came [prep] the [adj] conclusion " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |
| 2 | Therefore in the present case the justices came to the correct conclusion . |
| 3 | The English novelist Kingsley Amis , considering the film and its possible interpretations , came to the following conclusion : ‘ It 's about being bloody frightened of being eaten by a bloody great shark . ’ |
| 4 | It came to the reverse conclusion so far as the crime of administering a drug for the purpose of obtaining sexual intercourse was concerned and recommended that all sexual acts should be covered . |
| 5 | And came to the uncomfortable conclusion that it might have been a warning … |
| 6 | The case of City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1992 ] 2 EG 172 came to the surprising conclusion that unless the lease provides otherwise ( eg by providing that the original tenant 's obligations will remain in place during a statutory tenancy ) , where the lease has been assigned and the present tenant is holding over , the original tenant 's liability ends on the contractual term date . |
| 7 | It was the day the Crown Prince , swayed by von Mudra , came to the irrevocable conclusion that ‘ Operation GERICHT ’ had failed , and should be called off altogether . |
| 8 | He found a certain amount of fossil evidence that the time planes were not parallel with the lithological boundaries and he came to the general conclusion that the facies to the north are in the main younger than those to the south . |
| 9 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 10 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 11 | Unknowingly Raistrick followed the same path as the St. Mary 's workers and came to the same conclusion : the instability of the antibacterial substance did not make further attempts worth while . |
| 12 | Both the vet and the keeper came to the same conclusion — that Sam had eaten something that did n't agree with him , as he had n't eaten much of his food from the day before . |
| 13 | At that precise moment , Delaney came to the same conclusion as Nell . |
| 14 | Robert Blatchford , Britain 's most popular socialist writer , came to the same conclusion , but went further , writing enthusiastic articles for the Daily Mail in support of military conscription . |
| 15 | Goff and Reasons , after analysing the period 1952–72 , came to the same conclusion : ‘ the Combines Branch has centred its attentions upon the investigations , prosecutions , and conviction of small-medium-sized companies and corporations , leaving the very largest corporations free to engage in their monopolistic practices ’ ( 1978 : 86 ) . |
| 16 | Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds . |
| 17 | He came to the same conclusion as Duncan . |
| 18 | We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company . |
| 19 | There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge . |
| 20 | But no , it appeared not ; report after report , in many different learning tasks and in species as diverse as rats and goldfish , came to the same conclusion . |
| 21 | Another stipendiary magistrate , heard argument about abuse of the process and came to the opposite conclusion from Mr Bartle , namely that delay in Mr Cherry 's case did not constitute an abuse of the process . |
| 22 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
| 23 | I came to the rapid conclusion that anyone tackling it must be either incredibly brave , extremely stupid — or both ! |