Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to fruition " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 2 | According to Morolli : ‘ The seed sown by Lorenzo eventually came to fruition in Rome in the time of his son Giovanni , the future Pope Leo X. Seen in this light , Bramante and Raphael are the products of Florentine taste ’ . |
| 3 | The recommendations which flowed from this committee , published in 1919 , owed much to one member , Raymond Unwin , and it is from this source that earlier years of experiment in site planning ( focusing particularly on density and layout ) , house design and standards of accommodation finally came to fruition as national policy . |
| 4 | On the other hand , I suspected that those concerned with the practical supply of publicly available information to business executives ( whom , after all , the work carried out here was originally intended to help ) would probably not take the trouble to read such a review , if it ever came to fruition , because it would not be practical enough ! |
| 5 | When this was put to the Environment Trust erm they were er , unaware before that stage that there were erm may be proposals of developing that land and expressed an interest in being involved if that ever came to fruition . |
| 6 | ‘ It was talked about a lot , but never really came to fruition . |
| 7 | This work , however , only really came to fruition in Engels 's famous book The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , a book which although written after Marx 's death was extensively based on his notes . |
| 8 | Indeed , concern about the security of the Church was a major reason why High Tories were opposed to the Union with Scotland , which the Whigs eventually brought to fruition in 1707 . |
| 9 | Neither came to fruition , and I shall never know why . |
| 10 | A 1976 Granada television comedy project , ‘ All The Queen 's Men ’ , featured an all-gay Army unit but never came to fruition . |
| 11 | However , the promised Unix showcase at Comdex/Spring last week never came to fruition . |
| 12 | Sadly the planned improved Kick Off 2 cart never came to fruition . |
| 13 | This grant , however , never came to fruition , Berkhamsted , after Geoffrey 's death , remaining in the hands of the king . |
| 14 | They had made love before of course , a gentle , tentative , lovemaking that never came to fruition . |
| 15 | That never came , that never came to fruition . |
| 16 | In the 1870s the French conceived extravagant plans which included no less than the conquest of the Sahara , an impractical design never brought to fruition . |