Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] come to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 2 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 3 | That dominance is now being challenged as PC manufacturers slowly come to terms with the potential market for desktop publishing . |
| 4 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps it er you do n't know where the stairs and what kind of stairs it is but them kind of units usually come to bits ours does . |
| 6 | Conflict was deferred by the attempt to reach agreement along the lines of ‘ Manchuria for Korea ’ ( Mankan kó0kan ) ( i.e. Manchuria for Russia and Korea for Japan ) , but the two countries eventually came to blows in 1904 over the failure of Russian troops to withdraw on schedule from Manchuria . |
| 7 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 8 | So it was that the companies gradually came to terms with the increasing traffic and provided it with a further impetus . |
| 9 | I think er of time now what five or six years ago came to presentation . |
| 10 | It is difficult to assess the long term benefit of such a campaign as individual cases now coming to light clearly heard some of the publicity which was beneficial to them at the time but did not result in them making a call at that particular time . |
| 11 | Employers now come to schools and colleges to talk about what they need from their employees , and pupils go to their potential future work places and gain considerable valuable work experience . |
| 12 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I continue ( while we have it , let's press the advantage home ) , ‘ you know as well as I do that these couplings between the separate spheres always come to grief in the end . ’ |
| 14 | Since the characters never come to life , it is difficult to care what they get up to , in or out of bed . |
| 15 | Cases frequently come to light in which submissive children have been treated literally like household slaves , often into late middle-age , by domineering parents . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 17 | When he changes his models for a vulgar Cockney girl and a vagabond Italian his illustrations of lords and ladies immediately come to life . |
| 18 | Goleniewski then came to London and was carefully interviewed by MI6 about his evidence . |
| 19 | Charlie could hear rifles being cocked up and down the trenches as sleepy men quickly came to life . |
| 20 | Both of us need a few moments alone to come to terms with things . |
| 21 | Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day . |
| 22 | We need to shift to the procedure that we would probably have and a tell me if I 'm wrong I thought there was a sort of general agreement without it being sort of firmly agreed that we were going to go for a format of subject specific reports still coming to form tutor who would complete some sort of general report , is that |
| 23 | 75 What neither the men nor the resisting women ever came to terms with was the completely new skill represented by monotyping . |
| 24 | The Swifts then came to life with Beattie 's 25-yard free kick just over and Robinson 's forward burst barely cut out on time . |
| 25 | For Russell , this was an exceptional opening into the mysteries of the craft , whilst for the College of Arms it was a great mistake as their involvement in funerals quickly declined , the embers briefly coming to life with the public obsequies of Queen Mary in 1695 . |
| 26 | Mosquitos rarely came to grief . |
| 27 | The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children . |
| 28 | People from miles around come to Nottingham to enjoy the very best in night-time entertainment . |