Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 2 | On the 27 January 1991 Siad Barré fled the country , and the clans embarked on the intractable conflict which has come to look like a nation intent on destroying itself . |
| 3 | This is where family work could be useful helping the whole family to understand the part alcohol has come to play in the life of the vulnerable elderly person , the pattern of abuse , the defensiveness about it , and the likely outcome . |
| 4 | The chapter has come to rest with a description of the currently established , liberal-democratic , constitutional theory — a theory which argues that the constitution provides for a system of Cabinet or prime ministerial government within a larger parliamentary democracy in which Parliament is legally sovereign and the people are politically sovereign . |
| 5 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 6 | Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Simone was a wealthy French Canadian girl who had come to live with an aunt in Paris . |
| 8 | Half by desipience , half by proclivity , he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming . |
| 9 | She suspected that Mark was thinking of the West Indians who had come to live in the parish and of course that was very right . |
| 10 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 11 | He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes . |
| 12 | And Melvyn , who had come to complain about the state of arts funding under the Conservatives , joined Alan in an impromptu duet . |
| 13 | He glanced up to where Merrill had come to stand in the doorway , an amused smile flickering across his sensual mouth , his eyes slightly mocking . |
| 14 | There were on the film set few of the moments I had come to dread during the run of the stage show — when he 'd slap me down , or even when he would encourage me , egg me on . ’ |
| 15 | But the Secretary had come to stay as the hub of the administrative process . |
| 16 | It was certainly not what undergraduates at Oxford had come to expect from a lecturer . |
| 17 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 18 | In fact , she was on the point of reining in when she saw that Beador had come to rest on the top of the trunk ; he stood there , poised like a trick rider in a circus . |
| 19 | The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest . |
| 20 | Sergeant Troy had come to help on the farm . |
| 21 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 22 | The agricultural system was stable but not stagnant : it had come to depend on the cow , maize , and wheat , sensible rotations and no fallow . |
| 23 | For several reasons more people had come to depend on the cash purchase of goods . |
| 24 | He had come to think of the attack as a living creature which derived its nourishment from the speed of its progress . |
| 25 | A total of 350 visitors ( 97% of all respondents ) replied to question asking them about the way in which they had come to hear of the Library 's exhibitions . |
| 26 | That was true in 1987 , but not so true by the early 1990s ; by then governments had come to frown upon the idea of occasional realignments . |
| 27 | The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War . |
| 28 | The smaller projects lack the glamour that the American public and politicians have come to associate with the word ‘ space ’ ; and the larger missions are too expensive for NASA operating on a Reagan-sized budget . |
| 29 | There is , therefore , none of the fitful air of discontinuity about the Schrödinger equation which we have come to associate with the quantum world . |
| 30 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |