Example sentences of "come to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm . |
| 2 | The ‘ how ’ of it occupied her mind as she stared out of the window , yet she had come to no definite conclusions when the sonorous drone of the engines made her eyelids start to droop . |
| 3 | But that said we have come to no great conclusion . |
| 4 | From this experience we have come to a new recognition of the marginalisation of North American cultural and ethnic groups . |
| 5 | I 've come to a tremendous decision today . |
| 6 | Yet he must contain the depths of his feelings , his hatred , his fervent wish to see his stepson come to a sorry end . |
| 7 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 8 | By 1982 ( the EC 's 25th birthday ) the momentum for a Single European Market had come to a virtual standstill . |
| 9 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 10 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 11 | G. Sankoff and Vincent ( 1980 ) in a smaller historical investigation come to a parallel conclusion that stylistically stratified patterns of variable deletion of the negative particle ne in French have changed very little since the sixteenth century , when deletion was associated with informal styles . |
| 12 | For a communist militant who had devoted his life to the struggle against fascist barbarism and oppression , the revelation that the Soviet communist state had come to a private agreement with Hitler 's Nazi Germany was a mortal body blow . |
| 13 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 14 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 15 | Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ? |
| 16 | On the ground , in accordance with the order , 5 Corps had already entered negotiations with the Soviet authorities to take them over , and had come to a final decision ( reported to Eighth Army ) on which groups were to go . |
| 17 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 18 | I know this caused an immense amount of debate at Personnel sub-committee , and I thought that Personnel sub-committee had come to a reasonable solution . |
| 19 | Because the sun 's rotation drove the planets around , the whole system would have come to a gentle halt for the duration of the miracle . |
| 20 | Of course , many people concerned with language teaching have come to a similar conclusion . |
| 21 | The career that looked so promising in 1974 has evidently come to a premature end . |
| 22 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |
| 23 | In the name of Allah , things have come to a pretty pass if the tabloids are influencing England 's selection policy . |
| 24 | But things have come to a pretty pass when obesity is confused with the wobbly bits the good Lord designed for girls — the bits that should stick out at the front and back of a strapless ballgown . |
| 25 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 26 | another revolution I mean that the fight that none , none of these things have really come to a full success , yeah , so nobody looks at them and says well we need no more revolutions because they 'll all work . |
| 27 | Will Tie Rack come to a full stop ? |
| 28 | They have come to a full stop . |
| 29 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 30 | I feel I 've come to a full stop and so does Toby . |