Example sentences of "comes to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When love comes to a man in the form of grace he has the assurance that he is accepted , and is thereby enabled to experience self-integration once more , and the feeling of being reunited with others . |
| 2 | So when it comes to a race like the Olympic final it 's no different . |
| 3 | In other words , pre-exposure to the stimulus may both retard the acquisition of the CS-US association and act to interfere with the retrieval of the information embodied in this association when it comes to a test trial . |
| 4 | If a judge , applying the correct test , comes to a decision which he is entitled to reach on the evidence before him , an appellate court will not interfere with that decision . |
| 5 | The FCO is waiting , it says , for Ratliff to clarify his plans before it comes to a decision . |
| 6 | By contrast , most health service complaints at present are investigated by the ‘ adversarial ’ system , which takes evidence from the two parties and comes to a decision — guilty or innocent . |
| 7 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 8 | All right , they say , a wife is a wife after all , but when it comes to a parents ' decision … |
| 9 | These problems have n't gone away , but they have been dwarfed by difficulties that stem from ‘ under-control ’ : adolescent and adult excesses due to drug and alcohol abuse ; poor self-control of anger ; a lack of scruples when it comes to a variety of antisocial actions , ranging from vandalism and violence to child neglect and child abuse . |
| 10 | It all comes to a head at weekends and bank holidays . |
| 11 | Usually , however , the painful lump comes to a head , and there is relief when the pus bursts out , carrying with it what is left of the invading bacteria . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes it all comes to a head , ’ Gran said , low , and shut her eyes while the pain furrowed her face . |
| 13 | At a place known in advance only to a few , the motorcade comes to a halt . |
| 14 | International : Easter prayers answered as Etna lava flow comes to a halt |
| 15 | As it continues to expand the speed drops and the expansion eventually comes to a halt . |
| 16 | PS We later hear how my daughter , bridge hopping bare-footed , gets on a Tube train which comes to a halt over the river just as we paddle beneath . |
| 17 | It is frustrating on occasions when a side puts together an exciting movement of forwards interpassing to be concluded by a piece of driving play which eventually comes to a halt and the opposition get the put-in . |
| 18 | Otherwise the War Wagon is moved as indicated and if it collides with troops it comes to a halt and a round of hand-to-hand combat follows just as if the War Wagon had charged . |
| 19 | The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt . |
| 20 | The companies say that if they are not allowed to produce HCFCs and HFCs for long enough to make a return on their investment , users will face a crisis when CFC manufacturing comes to a halt in the late 1990s . |
| 21 | Satisfied , she retraces her steps until she comes to a Ladies ' cloakroom . |
| 22 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 23 | The animal immediately loses its coordination and soon comes to a standstill . |
| 24 | With the collapse of the capitalist production apparatus , the process of production almost comes to a standstill ; people live on old stocks which have survived the war and have been inherited by the proletariat . |
| 25 | When it comes to the actual physical materialisation of substances such as oil , ash or gold leaf , Bohm admits that , although he does not reject the observations out of hand , even the most exploratory science comes to a standstill . |
| 26 | The will-they , won't-they teaser comes to a clinch this evening when Sharon 's husband Grant goes out on the booze again . |
| 27 | Sir Neville Cardus , another great music critic writing about the history of music , likened the image of great composers such as Bach , Mozart and Beethoven as , ‘ Looking at a range of mountains , those names are on the summits then one comes to a plateau — and there standing out and rising from it is the cathedral of César Franck . ’ |
| 28 | There is always some potential for opposition and change ; this comes to a climax in periods of revolutionary social transformation . |
| 29 | Geoffrey Marshall , commenting on the bureaucracy of the system says that " it comes to a climax with an exchange of reports between practically all parties capable of exchanging them . " |
| 30 | In chapter thirty Hilton 's analysis of the process of reformation of feeling comes to a climax as he brings together the implications of his analysis and imagery in a synthesis embodying his full sense of the process of contemplative life as lived discovery of the meaning of the Incarnation.The experience of the darkness reveals to the soul its essence which is that its being does not inhere in the dimensions of time : " for soule is no body bot a lif vnseable " ( 30.102r. – 252 ) and has its own mode of knowing that is not entirely dependent on bodily senses or imagination . |