Example sentences of "[verb] come [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Munro baggers have been marking the centenary of Sir Hugh 's tables , a ghost has come to trouble the celebrations — the hovering spectre of Foinavon . |
| 2 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 3 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 4 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 5 | You know something 's going on , we have a little surprise set up for you , and I think the time has come to let the cat out of the bag . |
| 6 | He watches a man arrive who , we discover , has come to take the cure at the local sanatorium . |
| 7 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 8 | Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained . |
| 9 | Callinicos ' defence of classical Marxism , of historical materialism , is in the first instance deployed against a postmodernism which has come to proclaim the death of the grand narrative of emancipation and the need for a new form of politics not constructed along the lines of the traditional left . |
| 10 | It 's funny , every time we 've sat at our seats that bloke has come to ask the chap next to me |
| 11 | Mr. Lester submitted that the time has come to relax the rule to the extent which I have mentioned . |
| 12 | Last week Lord Skelmersdale told the Lords that ‘ the government 's decision is that the time has come to implement the 1975 Act … . it is the large number of reservoirs for which no one appears to take responsibility which gives rise to the greatest concern , he added . |
| 13 | Having now worked in both sides of the oil business , Morgan says that he has come to appreciate the importance of high quality cooperation , whether it 's at Grangemouth Refinery or in transporting and marketing oil in the US . |
| 14 | Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ . |
| 15 | Perhaps now that the forests and other wilderness areas have nearly vanished , these carnivorous animals burn brighter than ever in our consciousness — solitary beacons of wild nature whose continued survival has come to represent the survival of wilderness itself . |
| 16 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 17 | As a result society at large has come to accept the devaluation of the economic role of ‘ older people ’ as defined by these ages . |
| 18 | In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's . |
| 19 | Its own root is ‘ thought ’ , and from that it has come to mean the inner debate of a person who is reasoning with himself . |
| 20 | Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business . |
| 21 | Greenpeace has come to epitomise the struggle for a safer future , not just for humankind , but for the planet as a whole . |
| 22 | Prompted by the rapid development of medical technology over the past decade or so , the medical community has come to reject the notion that death is associated exclusively with breathing and heartbeat , the ‘ vital functions ’ . |
| 23 | Such interjections are clearly ironic as they are likely to be those of the ‘ trained ’ nouveau roman reader who has come to regard the decentring of the author as paradigmatic of contemporary experimental fiction . |
| 24 | The life-is-a-party world of Xuxa has come to portray the official version of Brazilian reality , with its glossy blondes and creamy morenas — and very few blacks . |
| 25 | Thus , ‘ Congress has come to dominate the national politics of federalism , and its members have gained that dominance by crawling inside the details of federal grant programmes and examining the effects of the distribution of federal money ’ , instead of the states deciding it themselves . |
| 26 | Spending resources before financial deadlines has come to dominate the administration of Partnerships and Programme Authorities , instead of wider strategic issues . |
| 27 | First , to show that the means-end rationality which has come to dominate the thought of modern man as the form of rationality is simply one kind of rationality . |
| 28 | Business has come to recognize the need to foster entrepreneurship ; failure to do so may result in a kind of in-house recession . ’ |
| 29 | More than any other landmark , the Brandenburg Gate , erected in 1794 as a triumphal arch , has come to symbolise the division between East and West . |
| 30 | Eternity , union , love , the gold wedding ring has come to symbolise the devotion of a groom to his bride , a bride to her groom and reflects perfectly the harmony between the couple . |