Example sentences of "had come to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | President François Mitterrand had warned in December following the most recent city riots [ see p. 37869 ] that modern socialism had to come to grips with the management of urban society , and the worst affected local authorities had complained that they lacked resources and bore a heavy burden compared with more affluent areas . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to come to terms with the fact that I could lose my baby at any time to a foster mother . |
| 3 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 4 | Unlike Roman Catholics , who had to come to terms with the use of the vernacular , Anglicans had used English for four hundred years . |
| 5 | The popes had to come to terms with the nobles and those who came from the noble families of the city naturally built up their own families and factions in order to survive . |
| 6 | Gradually , over the years , I would piece together another family history ; of those who had come to Scotland in the terrible years of the 1840s , some of whom , indeed , had even been Irish Catholics . |
| 7 | His celebration after Ronnie Whelan had scored a simple equaliser was the perfect demonstration of how close his Liverpool team had come to elimination from the FA Cup . |
| 8 | The new target date was April 1692 and the main assembly area lay directly behind the Baie de La Hogue , where the Irish troops who had come to France under the Treaty of Limerick had disembarked . |
| 9 | The remaining land had come to Clarence by the forfeiture of Thomas lord Roos , although dower rights had prevented him enjoying Helmsley itself . |
| 10 | The remaining land had come to Clarence by the forfeiture of Thomas lord Roos , although dower rights had prevented him enjoying Helmsley itself . |
| 11 | History appeared irrevocably on the side of the ageing generation of Communists who had come to maturity in the era of the great depression and Hitler . |
| 12 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 13 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 14 | Nickie , aged eighteen , lived with her parents , who had come to Britain from the West Indies in the 195Os , until she was sixteen . |
| 15 | Mr Usta said he had come to London under the impression that his kidney was to be donated to one of the ‘ broker ’ brothers , Ata Nur Kuntar . |
| 16 | Why Duncan and Doreen had come to London in the mid-'seventies , and why they stayed , was a mystery . |
| 17 | She had come to London after the war as a music student , and felt by this time she was neither Canadian or English . |
| 18 | Hoyte himself had come to office in the last elections in December 1985 [ see p. 34162 ] , while his People 's National Congress ( PNC ) had been in power since independence in 1966 . |
| 19 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 20 | It is Alan Usher 's contention that if this evidence had come to light before the trial , a third opinion could have been obtained from a specialist paediatric pathologist . |
| 21 | The languages of earth — English , Italian , Hindustani and Chinese particularly — were known in some variation everywhere , though it seemed the Autarch — who had come to power in the confusion following the failed Reconciliation — favoured English , which was the preferred linguistic currency almost everywhere now . |
| 22 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 23 | Now in the Black Sea region the dynasty , which had come to power after the Persian Wars , ruled a principality centred on Pantikapaion until 438 , when they were succeeded by a new one founded by one Spartokos ( Diod. xi.31 ) . |
| 24 | Elves and Men had come to blows in the past and might do so again . |
| 25 | Sipping a large Armagnac and enjoying the heady aroma of a Havana cigar , he had come to terms with the fact that life could , and would go on . |
| 26 | George and Elizabeth had come to terms with the fact that they would always be childless . |
| 27 | Even after his death , when most of his servants had come to terms with the new regime , several remembered him with respect and affection . |
| 28 | There is the irony : that , just when British Empirical Socialism had come to terms with the idea of a mixed economy , when it had accepted that for the indefinite future a public sector and a private sector would co-exist , when the tangle of objections which the Webbs had seen to the development of a privately-owned industrial co-operative sector had been so far cleared away as to open the path to a natural growth of industrial democracy by a means which , because it reconciled the rights and interests of labour with those of ownership , would have been sustainable , the Labour Government ignored or overlooked the opportunity . |
| 29 | Secretly , Beth admired Cissie 's strong character , and the way she had come to terms with the tragedies in her life . |
| 30 | Even after his death , when most of his servants had come to terms with the new regime , several remembered him with respect and affection . |