Example sentences of "[noun] come [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , from the mid-1970s , a new libertarian strand of thinking came to dominate the Conservative party . |
| 2 | Charles Keating Jr , the multi-millionaire whose speculative activities and subsequent financial collapse came to epitomize the massive failure of the savings and loan industry , was convicted on 17 counts of securities fraud by a California Superior Court on Dec. 4 . |
| 3 | The two sequences testify to the importance which a monastic community attached to its corporate ideal , and the steps by which a final and fatal resort to forgery came to appear the only path to a just solution . |
| 4 | The marsupials came to dominate the Australian story and the placentals the Old World , while the two groups played important roles alongside each other in South America . |
| 5 | Yet of all the leaders of European Social Democracy , Lenin came to show the greatest sensitivity to the issues associated with the oppression of national minorities , and to the need for dominant nationalities to demonstrate their rejection of this oppression . |
| 6 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 7 | Thus Bloomsbury came to criticize the dominant order over a wide range : for its militarism ; for its repressive colonialism ; for its unmanaged capitalism ; for its sexual inequalities ; for its rigidities of manners ; for its hypocrisies ; for its indifference to the arts . |
| 8 | The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world . |
| 9 | Many refugees come to see the medical doctor or the nurse not because they are really physically ill but because of emotional tensions — headaches and unidentified pains , So we have decided to prepare a number of simple pamphlets on mental health and related problems . |
| 10 | Between Salisbury 's retirement in 1902 and the outbreak of the Great War the individualist associations , their spokesmen , and their ideas were relegated even further to the margins of Conservative politics : only two Conservatives of note allied themselves with the individualist groups , while Dicey came to regard the Conservative party as collectivist Quislings . |
| 11 | That was how the Gens Redburna came to dominate the imperial economy . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've included the UK on the short list , at this stage , ’ said Klepner , ‘ because Mark says that when the task force teams come to prepare the comparative cost studies in detail they will find that the economics of manufacturing certain new products will almost certainly favour production in the UK . |
| 13 | Many famous people came to view the grandiose exhibition : the Prince of Wales judged it to be ‘ an ornament to the nation ’ , as indeed it was to become . |
| 14 | Lemert ( 1967 ) proposed a second component to the ‘ amplification spiral ’ — what he called ‘ secondary deviance ’ : a consequence of being officially labelled ‘ deviant ’ is that other people come to regard the labelled person differently , as a different kind of person . |
| 15 | In the end it was agreed under a chivalric code that if no English forces came to relieve the beleaguered garrison by Midsummer Day 1314 , the governor would honourably surrender it to the Scots . |
| 16 | He chose to ignore the ultimate horror of the looted tomb and inscribed his lines as if all was well : " Aa-Kheper-Re-senb came to see the beautiful temple of King Seneferu . |
| 17 | The end result of interaction appears to be that the longer one survives after myocardial infarct the closer one 's life expectancy comes to match the normal population . |
| 18 | By demonstrating why workers , soldiers and a minority of peasants came to support the Bolshevik party in 1917 they bring to light the limitations of the party 's popular mandate , and the speed with which that mandate was forfeited . |
| 19 | Each god 's burden came to signify the particular omen of the division of time in question . |
| 20 | . It is certainly true that as men came to understand the natural world and thus to control it , they began to banish God from it . |
| 21 | It is through these interactions that babies come to recognize the distinctive sight , smell and manner of their mother . |
| 22 | Finally , the monopolies come to dominate the educational system , the media and other social institutions so that they can control social values . |
| 23 | But when he and Slater came to devise the dramatic structure of the libretto , something different resulted . |
| 24 | Its modern quays were well suited to accommodate the new large ships , known as cogs , which in the course of the second half of the twelfth century came to dominate the maritime trade of the Baltic , North Sea and Channel coasts . |
| 25 | The ‘ superstructure ’ of ideas and social institutions comes to reproduce the economic base : ‘ the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas in every epoch ’ , Marx claimed , and ‘ the state is but the executive committee of the whole bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 26 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 27 | It was not long after the unearthing of the Phillips curve that economists and , later , policy makers came to grasp the full force of what they thought to be its implications for the conduct of demand management by the monetary and fiscal authorities . |
| 28 | the family came to watch the eldest son , |
| 29 | The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning . |
| 30 | For what is being implied is nothing short of a paradigm shift wherein students and their intellectual capabilities come to occupy the central ground . |