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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Botulism is another fatal disease which has come to the fore in recent years .
4 The problem , which has long troubled white consciences , has come to the fore now because of a decision by the High Court that in one case aborigines have a legal claim to lands where they hunted before the white man came .
5 The ideal of ‘ listening to the text ’ and allowing different possible ‘ readings ’ has come to the fore , helped by a new appreciation of Jewish exegesis , often through joint study with Jews ( as was recommended in Nostra Aetate 4 ) , and by refreshing contributions from students of other literatures .
6 Passive smoking has come to the fore .
7 Of the many factors that contribute to health and wellbeing , the role of social support has come to the fore recently as critical in understanding the relationships between peopleealth and social and material circumstances in which they live .
8 It 's possible that the man who stands on the winner 's podium on the Champs Elysées on the afternoon of Sunday 26 July will have come to the fore in the last two days .
9 In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) .
10 And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh .
11 Sarah 's old jealousy had come to the fore — she wanted Isaac to inherit all of Abraham 's wealth and his elder son , Ishmael , to have none .
12 In the twentieth century the battles have been over quite different issues and in the courts the hitherto ancillary matters of child custody and maintenance have come to the fore .
13 The politics of local government have come to the fore just as the powers of local government have declined .
14 Several lines of evidence for insect intelligence have come to the fore , but a little careful thinking , observation , and experimentation indicate that most of these criteria are untrustworthy .
15 Yet , increasingly , arguments about the effects of privatisation on the state 's finances , rather than discussion about the appropriate role of the state , have come to the fore as the revenue gained from asset sales has become sizeable .
16 In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government .
17 In the process we have observed , two new urban phenomena have come to the fore : the outer city and the inner city , both urban environments with distinct challenges for planned regulation .
18 In this context new kinds of employment ( eg public and private services ) have come to the fore and with it a rise in the proportion of female workers .
19 ‘ Look how that 's come to the fore , ’ remarked a Bristol listener , ‘ we never used to know anything about it and now there 's many would n't miss it . ’
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