Example sentences of "have come [prep] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 2 | If people had imagined in 1933 that things would have come to such a pitch , they 'd never have voted for Hitler . |
| 3 | They can hardly have come as such a surprise to Daum . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 5 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 6 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |
| 7 | I had come in half an hour early in anticipation of another week of battling short-handed against the tide . |