Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a motor-driven electronically tuned performance ( like a recent one by Salonen and the Philharmonia ) but one which attempted to penetrate the mysteries of the slower sections , above all those at the beginning of the second part , and one which was thoughtful enough to seem to come to its violent conclusion in spite of itself . |
| 2 | We are only beginning to come to terms with it . |
| 3 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 4 | That experience angered and frustrated me sufficiently to consider coming to this place to try to change the evil which the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was letting loose on decent families in decent communities . |
| 5 | Amanda Farrar ( got thrown out of three independent schools , so forced to come to our place ) gets Mr Beddowes to simper and smarm to Dinwiddie about her deprived childhood . |
| 6 | We rode like the wind and by ten o'clock had come to the edge of the forest of Zenda . |
| 7 | It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation . |
| 8 | I did not want to come to this council , but I came hoping that we could save blood . |
| 9 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 10 | Is it too fanciful to suggest that once schools know why pupils do not want to come to classes , teachers can set about making school more attractive for at least some of the disaffected ? |
| 11 | Kopyion had tried to persuade him that he did not need to come to the hoverport . |
| 12 | Overseas applicants are generally not expected to come to Edinburgh until their course of study commences . |
| 13 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 14 | So he raised his wings , which still bore the light-coloured plumage of a juvenile , reared up his head in as fierce a way as he could , and called out , ‘ I did not choose to come to this miserable place , or to live with ones such as you who grow angry at nothing , or nothing I can understand . |
| 15 | The door to his room had been closed and locked when she visited the mother , and she had not bothered to come to the house when Tatyana committed suicide . |
| 16 | which we did , and I 'm pleased to say that they endorsed that that general position , in other words their not going to come to a conclusion whether or not they should take any part in the proceedings , whether they should intervene or seek to stop the project until much later in the day . |
| 17 | This — proposal of yours , it 's not going to come to anything , is it ? |
| 18 | So it 's just going to come to one over fifty plus one over a hundred . |
| 19 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 20 | But in his last job , Mr Redwood was just beginning to come to terms with Labour council leaders . |
| 21 | It was n't until long afterwards , after an endless length of time had passed , that , cradled in Roman 's protective arms , his lips on her hair , her fingers tightly and convulsively entwined with his , she finally began to come to her senses , finally began to think straight , and to wonder what dangerous , reckless lunacy she 'd plunged , willing and headlong , into … |
| 22 | The Jews had to accept the fact that Gentiles could become Christians and that in so doing they did not have to come to Christ via Jewish cultural conditioning . |
| 23 | But the government 's bounty attracted industry that would probably not have come to Berlin otherwise , and might not stay without it . |
| 24 | ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’ |
| 25 | Dannell throws doubt on the import of these wares into Britain prior to AD 43 , but with trans-continental trade already well established in pre-conquest times , it seems unlikely that fine pottery should not have come to Britain . |
| 26 | Adoption should not be underestimated as a potential problem , and Howe ( 1990 ) estimated that there are approximately 600,000 relinquishing mothers in the UK — many of whom may not have come to terms with their loss . |
| 27 | Comment on the view that without the economic difficulties experienced by Germany before 1933 , the Nazis would not have come to power . |
| 28 | The report accepted that , without this , the frauds would not have come to light and that there were probably other , undetected , offences . |
| 29 | You gave me to understand that even if you had not had your accident you would almost certainly not have come to France to see him at the end . ’ |
| 30 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |