Example sentences of "[modal v] come [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a friend of the family , and although I was surprised to see him , Mum explained that he 'd come to take a few photographs of me for the family album — after all , it 's not every day you become a teenager . |
| 2 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
| 3 | Well , she thought , replacing the receiver , unless her ‘ friend ’ showed up within the next half an hour she would come to find an empty room . |
| 4 | As for Unix , as we said way back in 1984 when we forecast that it would come to dominate the mainstream market , it is fundamentally quite inappropriate as the basis of a robust commercial operating system because it is designed for free sharing of resources and code between users , where one of the most important requirements of a mission-critical operating system is that the crass behaviour of some idiot wo n't bring the system down . |
| 5 | In this way a weak stimulus may come to have an acquired cue value ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 6 | A subject trained with both A and B each followed by event X may come to perceive the distinctive features of A and B , something that might reduce generalization between them . |
| 7 | iv ) The mother in a nuclear family may come to play a pivotal role in all major expenditure decisions , especially if the husband relies upon her to manage the household budget . |
| 8 | There are signs that users may come to expect a reasonable tolerance of miskeyings from any interactive computer system . |
| 9 | Although private residential homes are typically independent family businesses , if the same happens in Britain as happened in the United States , then large companies may come to occupy a bigger share of the market . |
| 10 | Unless it does so , however , it is inevitable that , in presenting itself as a general theory of conduct , psychology will come to embody a certain idea of man . |
| 11 | Nor are the Free Democrats likely to pull out of Mr Kohl 's government now , though some of them hope the chance will come to join the Social Democrats in government again after the next general election in 1994 . |
| 12 | The most influential voice of support for the Scottish Equitable board 's proposal will come form the independent actuary . |
| 13 | User interfaces are not just pretty screen representations : as their use is extended they will come to express the whole nature of the system data model , and will probably become highly specialized as the interfaces move from function-oriented to task-oriented forms . |
| 14 | After a number of such pairings a particular pattern of input will come to evoke a selected output pattern , without the ‘ output pattern generator ’ being activated . |
| 15 | From these starting points we can come to understand the dual effect of Dionysiac music on our Apolline capability . |
| 16 | It is that reason can come to play a central part in one 's life , so that we can properly talk of ‘ a life of reason ’ . |
| 17 | This quotation gives a vivid insight into how someone who is basically sympathetic towards black people can come to adopt a racialist language in order to conform to the expectations of the group , which are set by a minority of active racists . |