Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no question here that PW acted completely above board , but it strikes me that the time has come to consider whether the profession 's rules and regulations on reporting to external authorities are not too restrictive . |
| 2 | But in practice this has come to mean that the C. and A. G. examines , certifies and reports on the annual summarized accounts of the National Health Service taken as a whole , i.e. as the appropriation account presents them . |
| 3 | A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow . |
| 4 | For both judges and ordinary people will have come to see that the area that should be dominated by predictability is very large , and citizens will make their plans assuming that judges take that view and so will not often reverse settled legal practice . |
| 5 | I 've come to suspect that the spring may have been sewage , having noticed that butterflies , however , beautiful , possess unsavoury habits . |
| 6 | He had come to realize that the technique of politics as currently practised was ineffectual and in the long view immeasurably harmful in twentieth-century conditions . |
| 7 | Not only were the hands and feet not in any of the places I had thought possible , but I had come to realise that the hypothesis was quite inadequate to explain missing eyeballs , these being hopelessly ill equipped for hopping , volts or no volts . |
| 8 | Carrie and Fred Bradley had come to accept that a drop in their weekly takings was inevitable and there was never any pressure put on the men to leave once they had finished their morning tea or coffee . |
| 9 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |
| 10 | He had come to believe that a period affected dreams , and not only Anna 's but his too . |
| 11 | Teachers and parents have come to realise that the education of children is a joint responsibility , particularly as children are at school for such a small proportion of their waking lives . |
| 12 | Some of the personalities themselves have provided unhappy proof of what can happen when stress and temptation take over where the much-publicised diet leaves off , while the thousands — sometimes millions — who bought their books have come to realise that the Hollywood way to fitness is a career in itself , a course in self-absorption and physical management that only those who are paid to pursue it can afford , either in terms of time or money . |
| 13 | Relations between government and people in Kaliningrad have improved as both sides have come to realise that the region 's precarious geographical location calls for new ways of thinking . |
| 14 | More recently we have come to see that the concept of science or arts is a social construction ; as Michael Young has argued : |
| 15 | ‘ Through my studies I have come to understand that the way humans view animals like primates in a negative light is wrong . |
| 16 | Just to give a flavour of the more joyful side : as a result of so many of us being out and being there , many other women workers , and many young women have come to feel that the time was right for them too , that they too have lesbian potential . |
| 17 | We have come to expect that the programmes undertaken will fit the child , matching his or her age , aptitude and ability with a learning experience which will be challenging , satisfying , invigorating and self-rewarding . |
| 18 | For reasons which are much more pragmatic than ideological , I have come to think that a separation of Cultural Studies from English , though not easy , would be the least damaging way forward for both parties . |
| 19 | I have come to believe that the dualism and utilitarianism that now lie behind what many environmentalists are doing today poses a threat that most environmentalists do n't even begin to understand . |
| 20 | The first are the ‘ new ’ Democrats , those who have come to believe that the identification of Democrats with high taxes , social liberalism and a distrust of the armed forces was catastrophic . |