Example sentences of "[Wh det] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directors have a reasonable time in which to come to a decision , but since section 183(5) of the Act imposes an obligation on them to give to the transferee notice of rejection within two months of the lodging of the transfer , the maximum reasonable period is two months . |
| 2 | There were other things that had to be reconciled , and we hear presently of ‘ a role of inherent superiority which came to me from outside , from the servants among others . |
| 3 | Montenegro 's young and go-ahead leadership , which came to power this year amid furious popular dissatisfaction with the ‘ old men in grey suits ’ , sponsored the gathering of Nicholas 's surviving relatives — the first ‘ royal reunion ’ organised by a Communist government . |
| 4 | There has been criticism of the group 's wheeling and dealing which came to a head with the surprise sale of the William Hill / Mecca betting shops chain to Brent Walker . |
| 5 | Until he does so , his enemies will , somewhat unfairly , compare his dedication to the contemporary economy 's commanding heights with Harold Wilson 's more grandiose , though ill-focused , flirtation with ‘ the white heat of the scientific revolution ’ , which came to nothing . |
| 6 | The Defence Secretary , Fidel Ramos , briefed the cabinet and senators yesterday on an alleged plot to assassinate Mrs Aquino , which came to light in February . |
| 7 | Builder shares , which came to the stock market last summer at 125p , rose 3p to 251p . |
| 8 | She named Major Francisco Olechea , the head of Battalion 2000 — the unit which came to General Noriega 's rescue during the coup — as one of the initial conspirators . |
| 9 | The grain was ground between the faces of the stones which came to be grooved to give a better cutting action , and the ground meal was distributed to the outside edge of the stones for collection . |
| 10 | At that price the whole company , which came to the stock market 11 years ago , would be valued at just over £54million . |
| 11 | Hay 's , which came to the market around Grey Monday , managed to sell just 8 per cent of the shares on issue . |
| 12 | One skipper who sought to reduce the carnage discovered that trapped dolphins could be released from nets by the use of a manoeuvre which came to be known as ‘ backdown . ’ |
| 13 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 14 | This was the movement , initiated by the Wesley brothers and White field , which came to be called Methodism among those leaving the established church , and Evangelicalism among those remaining within the Anglican fold . |
| 15 | This structure of serious road-traffic offences was recently examined by the North Committee , which came to the conclusion that the criminal law does not treat traffic offences with the gravity they deserve , given the potential consequences of any deviation from proper standards of driving . |
| 16 | The only painful aspect of the rescue was the bill , which came to a total of £460 ! |
| 17 | In such cases there might be different sorts of motivation , such as the prestige which accrued from the production of a large coinage in the state 's name or the profit which came to the state from the minting fee . |
| 18 | SUCH of that European history which came to so terrible an ending in and around the battlefields of the Somme had its beginnings in the north Rhineland town of Aachen , Charlemagne 's capital , Aix-la-Chapelle ; because it was here , for more than half a millennium , that the Holy Roman Empire celebrated its mysteries . |
| 19 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |
| 20 | The role of Highlander in this project so far had not just been as a catalyst , nor a co-ordinating agency for the network — though this in itself is a vital role — but also as a meeting place for the widely scattered groups which came to the Center to hold regular training workshops . |
| 21 | Following the case , several doctors expressed concern at the information which came to light during the trial ; |
| 22 | It was academic theory that was to define the two great periods of French station-building which produced in the Gare de l'Est and the Gare d'Orsay terminals which came to be regarded as definitive types . |
| 23 | Following a prolonged correspondence , SAVE issued a writ which came to court . |
| 24 | All the early supplies of penicillin which came to the public were manufactured in America , and , in America at least , it was natural to assume that penicillin was an American discovery . |
| 25 | During the fifteen months he remained in South Africa after The Soldier 's Tale he created three more works and laid plans for others , some of which came to fruition years later . |
| 26 | In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training . |
| 27 | During the Second World War , when cattle food supplies were necessarily restricted so that the supposedly early maturing breeds were deprived of some of their rations , it was the Devon and the related Sussex which came to the fore and proved that , even under difficult conditions , they were able to produce good beef quickly . |
| 28 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 29 | The ZANU government , which came to power in 1980 , had two major educational goals : to expand access to education and to end the racist bias of the previous system . |
| 30 | It may be convenient here to say something briefly about some of the other religious denominations which came to the town in the nineteenth century . |