Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	There must be some hidden sexual factor involved , as though the soft-furred ( and therefore sexy ) cat has come to stand for sexual violence and rape , via its savagely sharp claws and canine teeth .
2	With or without Horkheimer , with or without the Frankfurt School , the name of Adorno has come to stand in cultural criticism for an immediately knowable , instantly impeachable thought-crime : ‘ cultural pessimism ’ .
3	Well , as Messrs Waugh and Ingrams could confirm , that 's just the sort of treacherous , duplicitous behaviour one has come to expect from young people today ( just as this shameless betrayal of an employee is typical of us incipient oldsters ) .
4	So Peter Yeo had to look reassuring and solid and a bit older , while Timothy Hutton could probably have come to work in striped organza without losing a single client .
5	It seemed incongruous to Dexter , inappropriate when he knew they had come to talk about violent death .
6	‘ In what way ? ’ he asked softly , his tone completely changed , as if he knew they had come to tread on sensitive ground .
7	The process and the outcomes are a good deal less tidy than many have come to appreciate with current models and assumptions about organizations .
8	There are problems , too , in the way in which different prisons have come to deal with long-term prisoners .
9	The fact that certain regions in the UK have come to depend on declining industries explains in part the regional disparities of unemployment which we referred to in Chapter 3 .
10	The poverty of the farm worker today is obviously very different from that which existed in the countryside in Victorian times , but the majority of farm workers are poor by the standards which we have come to expect in modern Britain .
11	Bold assertions are what we have come to expect from visiting Americans of dubious pedigree but they come to Biggs almost as an afterthought .

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