Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that just like the ‘ moral treatments ’ of the nineteenth century , normalization has come to mean different things to different people , and professionals who have espoused the concept of ‘ normalization ’ often proselytize their views with a religious fervour which , though often motivating to fellow staff , can be alienating to those who are unfamiliar with the concept . |
| 2 | A woman will say something like , ‘ Oh look , he 's got a cute butt ’ and some geek standing next to her , sensing that his chance has come to make serious waves in the world of sexual politics , will whine , ‘ You would n't like that if I said that about a girl . ’ |
| 3 | Since that time HIV has come to dominate gay life in this country . |
| 4 | He had come to entertain serious doubts about it himself . |
| 5 | It had come to represent important sections of socialized nations , mass societies , and in this responsible role social democrats were required to do their patriotic duty when war threatened ‘ their ’ ruling order . |
| 6 | He admitted the Council had begun slowly , but said that was inevitable , and that bishops would work better now they had come to understand different points of view . |
| 7 | After the first flutters of excitement in the immediate aftermath of war about GIs , nylon stockings , bubble-gum , television , flashy motorcars , labour-saving gadgetry and all-American razzle-dazzle , caricatures of ‘ Americanisation ’ have come to carry enormous authority within postwar deliberations on the decline of the old ‘ way of life ’ . |
| 8 | A relatively small number of these have come to occupy focal positions in discussions of lexical semantics ( such relations as antonymy , hyponymy and synonymy ) , and they form correspondingly prominent topics of the present and succeeding chapters . |
| 9 | We have come to expect super classes on this course , and we were not disappointed ! |