Example sentences of "[adj] come to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in so many debates on the nature and location of power in Britain it is not possible to come to a firm and lasting conclusion as to the nature of prime ministerial power relative to the position of the cabinet since Prime Ministers have always differed in their degree of command of the cabinet . |
| 2 | His brother Peter was too upset to come to the phone today but his secretary confirmed that Hunt , a father-of-two , died of a heart attack during the night . |
| 3 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 4 | There was a moment , particularly at tea , when I would sense that our conversation was , so far as he was concerned , due to come to an end . |
| 5 | erm but ea she would n't bring him over to the phone , she said oh he 's too weak to come to the phone . |
| 6 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 7 | He argued that to implement a ‘ Non-Alignment Pact ’ in a civil war between an incumbent government supported by one Great Power and insurgents supported by another Great Power ‘ a coalition government must be formed comprising those elements of both Government and insurgent forces which are prepared to come to a compromise and work together in the context of non-alignment ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Why I 'm calling , sir , is to ask if you 're free to come to The Randolph this morning . ’ |
| 9 | In e-mail systems it is possible to receive a number of related messages from different people on screen , to then go into a statistical package and do some calculations , and on the basis of this come to a decision which one communicates to a different set of people . |
| 10 | Being black has always been in my subconscious , but I 've tried never to let this come to the fore . |
| 11 | They could find it easier to come to an agreement to support each other during a lock-out for example , because they would have sufficient financial resources to enable them to survive periods of inactivity . |
| 12 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 13 | With Celia intermittently in a clinic on the outskirts of north London , Brian at his wits ' end and pondering whether to bribe Mrs Bennett to return , Karen had suddenly made the suggestion that her widowed mother might be willing to come to the rescue . |
| 14 | Most teachers ( 85% ) used the library for borrowing books connected with their work but 58% looked for information on other subjects also , and over half came to the library to browse . |
| 15 | But by the early 1960s planners were being charged with an over-obsession with neatly packaged land parcels , and this came to a head with Jane Jacobs ( 1961 ) , an American journalist married to an architect , living in New York . |
| 16 | With the coming of the railway all this came to an end . |
| 17 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
| 18 | As the 80s came to an end , punishing exercise routines had become almost an alternative religion for many people . |
| 19 | I bite my lip and worry about this coming to an end . |
| 20 | There is always some potential for opposition and change ; this comes to a climax in periods of revolutionary social transformation . |
| 21 | It may well happen that the student in considering this comes to the conclusion that there is no contract between Pickwick and Podder . |
| 22 | More 's study ( 1980 ) of skill levels among engineering workers in England over the period 1870–1914 comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to sustain a definite ‘ deskilling ’ thesis on the evidence available . |
| 23 | Just over one hundred children between the ages of four to eleven came to the canteen which had been transformed with decorations . |
| 24 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 25 | This flux depresses narrative reflection ( ‘ … it was almost impossible to come to a conclusion about one 's own flow and that in fact this was a contradiction in terms since one was precisely one 's own flow … ’ |
| 26 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 27 | BIOTECHNOLOGY seems set to come to the aid of the short children of America . |
| 28 | He contracted with him in 1775 to come to the capital , and put him with M. Francoeur , to conduct [ battre la mesure ] . |
| 29 | Between July and October this year in Leeds , two children aged under 10 came to the attention of the police for vehicle theft offences . |
| 30 | She was dark , petite and soignée , and her smile , though warm , held a hint of reproof , as Sabine came to a halt , gasping , her hand pressed to her side . |