Example sentences of "has come to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Even before the slide forward has come to a stop , pull your rear guard hand back slightly in order to augment the snap punch .
2 The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope .
3 Time has come to a standstill .
4 Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’
5 This is sometimes taken to show that the process of monopolisation has come to a halt .
6 Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ?
7 Whether this will in practice make a great difference may be doubted , since it seems unlikely that a court will come to the conclusion that a chief constable of police has come to a decision that he could not reasonably arrive at , which is the critical test for the exercise of the powers of judicial review .
8 Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on .
9 This has come to a head with EEC obstructionist moves at the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations which were meant to reach a conclusion by 1990 but which would now appear to have collapsed .
10 It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt .
11 Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation .
12 I think he has come to a rendezvous .
13 Well , the SAAF has come to a conclusion that others have long held — the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota !
14 ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt .
15 Mr Mawlawi added : ‘ The relief effort has come to a standstill .
16 Covenant politics has come to the forefront again with the Hillsborough agreement of 1985 and shows the extent to which the populist politics of the Democratic Unionists is rooted in protestant — loyalist tradition .
17 The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled .
18 ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said .
19 Meanwhile , the Wiltshire-based Regency and West of England has come to the aid of small savers with a minimum of £500 to invest .
20 In the nearest modern marketing has come to the skin-flintery of Ebenezer Scrooge , a growing number of American shopping malls have picked the Christmas season to ban the Salvation Army from ringing its bells and asking for money for its traditional Big Red Kettle collection boxes .
21 At length , the passage he has been stooping along opens out somewhat into a low chamber : he has come to the shrine of a goddess .
22 Howell has come to the fore this season , being instrumental in getting Civil Service into third place in the league behind Kelburne and Torbrex Wanderers with his impressive defensive record .
23 Yet during their tenure of office both have had to deal with a Russia now run by an apparently liberally minded head of government who has come to the conference table willing to reduce arms at a rate that the West sometimes finds embarrassing .
24 And why , when it has come to the crunch , have British governments of all political persuasions given it such unswerving support ?
25 The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success .
26 Alicia uses it only when the family has come to the end of its own resources and then it brings happiness and prosperity to them all .
27 Botulism is another fatal disease which has come to the fore in recent years .
28 The thought has come to the surface in order to be released .
29 ‘ We all feared this might happen and now it has come to the worst , ’ said one church-goer arriving for the service .
30 Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months .
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