Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 2 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 3 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 4 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to the high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 5 | I nodded , cautious , not concerned with understanding ; because underlying everything he did I had come to detect an air of stage-management , of the planned and rehearsed . |
| 6 | The need to raise money for John II 's ransom had led to the levying of a salt tax and taxes on merchandise throughout the kingdom , and by 1367 these taxes had come to acquire a look of permanence . |
| 7 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 8 | I have already mentioned how the left and right distinction has begun to evaporate as formally opposed groups have come to share a sense of what race is . |