Example sentences of "come to fruition " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would point out that scientific projects need a great deal of time to come to fruition , and premature publication of , er , data can damage progress . |
| 2 | And in addition many of the conservation measures adopted following the first oil shock began to come to fruition . |
| 3 | It was a costly investment requiring several years to come to fruition and the vast majority of growers could not afford the necessary equipment . |
| 4 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 5 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 6 | And it 's not just important to DEC who freely admits its whole strategy is dependent on a unified Unix and desperately needs last year 's deal between OSF and USL on common Application Programming Interfaces to come to fruition . |
| 7 | Small wonder that Kenya 's plans to establish an Export processing Zone ( see later section ) have yet to come to fruition , despite recent improvements in the exchange-management procedures . |
| 8 | Attention has already been drawn to the fact that a single harmonization proposal can take decades to come to fruition . |
| 9 | Major naval , military and railway construction programmes scheduled to come to fruition in 1917–18 argued strongly for delay . |
| 10 | Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia . |
| 11 | And while they were away , he would allow her little dream to come to fruition . |
| 12 | The London County Council ( 1961 ) had wanted a New Town at Hook , in Hampshire , planning a compact settlement designated for universal car ownership and complete pedestrian segregation , but Hampshire County Council preferred major town-expansion schemes at Andover and Basingstoke , and the proposal failed to come to fruition . |
| 13 | What about this mum 's army of teachers is this going to come to fruition as some point or not ? |
| 14 | Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition . |
| 15 | I thought that they were about to come to fruition . |
| 16 | In the second of her reports on the build-up to the show , Harriet Ryley joins two of the exhibitors anxiously waiting for a year 's work to come to fruition . |
| 17 | Ethylene overcapacity may extend over the next 3–5 years and ‘ potentially could be with us throughout the decade if many of the plants now under study phase come to fruition ’ . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there . |
| 19 | For once in his life , Leopold must have been truly happy : his hopes and prayers for his beloved son seemed at last to have come to fruition . |
| 20 | And , giving his mum credit for his stylish success , he added : ‘ All the years of saying , ‘ You 're not going out like that , ’ have finally come to fruition . ’ |
| 21 | The Witch King 's long plan had come to fruition . |
| 22 | Given its dual-operating system strategy , Sequent is also hoping for increased Unix-to-NT interoperability , but says if the Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technologies now under development come to fruition , then it should be able to produce executable software for Unix and NT . |
| 23 | However , financial uncertainty , a low priority attached until recently to rural schemes by the Housing Corporation and problems associated with its national-scale administration , coupled with some rural planning restrictions , have meant that only a very small number of the schemes of this and other organizations have come to fruition . |
| 24 | Later , with the construction of the M25 as an orbital route around London , Abercrombie 's outer ring had come to fruition . |
| 25 | Many of the initiatives laboured over in previous years have come to fruition and a host of new ventures has sprung up , bringing fresh opportunities and challenges . |
| 26 | It seems that the policy of Exclusion , which had first been raised in 1673 , and which had been a major political goal of the first Whigs , had at last come to fruition . |
| 27 | Their plans have come to fruition rather sooner and more dramatically than expected . |
| 28 | ‘ It was talked about a lot , but never really came to fruition . |
| 29 | This work , however , only really came to fruition in Engels 's famous book The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , a book which although written after Marx 's death was extensively based on his notes . |
| 30 | Before the four-cylinder half of this plan came to fruition , Rudd , now engineering director , hired a new recruit from Jaguar — ‘ a bright young man called Mike Kimberley ’ — to head up vehicle engineering and lead the team that put the existing twin-cam engine in the Europa . |