Example sentences of "to come to rest [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends .
2 The Scouts had hellfired crowded transport sledges that slid at speed down glossy oiled vitrodur channels , diving from transit stations , canting along branch-lines , corkscrewing , swooping up to come to rest at other destinations …
3 In conventional language we talk of a pointer moving across a scale to come to rest at the mark saying " here " or at the mark saying " there " .
4 The half-stepping scheme is therefore a useful compromise , since the Vo/V1 ratio is not too high and reasonable damping can be achieved by arranging for the motor to come to rest at positions where two phases are excited .
5 Those which happen to come to rest in a non-absorbing direction will absorb no more photons , and will thereafter stay put .
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