Example sentences of "[noun pl] come [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus and hurt her knee twenty minutes ago ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When parents come to judge a school their first impressions will be a major factor . |
| 4 | In the final paragraph , it all became very heavy-handed : ‘ Kept up , though , these jestings come to seem a forced grin on the altogether sorry face of dick-rattling Rutshire . |
| 5 | Thousands of visitors come to see the world famous collection of thirty-eight follies in the landscape gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire . |
| 6 | But apart from historical sites , visitors come to enjoy the island 's long sandy beaches and inland scenery of olive-clad hillsides and sweet-smelling pine forests . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And so psychologists come to dominate the discipline . |
| 9 | Moreover , this normative process was felt to operate at several levels , from appointments , promotions and other career aspirations to the much more subtle everyday processes whereby individuals come to acquire a sense of their professional worth from the comments and valuations of ‘ significant others ’ advisers , advisory teachers and heads in particular . |
| 10 | Granovetter ( a pioneer of the study of this dimension of recruitment ) has argued that sociologists and economists have seriously neglected this aspect of ‘ the matching process ’ , i.e. the actual process whereby individuals come to get the jobs they do ( Granovetter , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | Often , during this time , prospective buyers come to inspect the Singphos ' captures . |
| 12 | It 's quite nice because the people at the classes come to hear the music as well as to keep fit . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | How did this greatest and most awe-inspiring of the great cats come to make the East its special domain ? |
| 15 | Tarski [ 1931 ] proposed the notion of semantic truth for a formalised language , arguing that the purpose of structural semantics is to show how sentences come to have the truth values they do , given the meanings of the individual words and the way the syntax combines them . |
| 16 | Lydia felt the need to remove herself , as people who stay in hotels get out of the way when the poor chambermaids come to make the beds . |
| 17 | However , these ‘ schemes of experience ’ are not invented ex nihilo but are disseminated through the commonsense knowledge shared by members of the life-world , so that members come to learn the relevant typifications and their meaning ( see Natanson 1970 ; for an application of these ideas see Brewer 1984a , b , 1988b ) . |
| 18 | Tourists come to see the Titian ceilings , to hear Vivaldi , to see where Byron lived — ’ |
| 19 | Simply expressed , in a situation in which voters detach themselves from a close identification with parties then issues come to assume a greater significance in voting behaviour and electoral choice . |
| 20 | It is through these interactions that babies come to recognize the distinctive sight , smell and manner of their mother . |
| 21 | The aim of the research is to find out how children come to comprehend the requirements of effective verbal communication and the causes of communication failure . |
| 22 | By stressing superiority of the competitive as opposed to the collaborative , the individual as against the collective , the private as compared to the public and by elevating profitability to at times the sole criterion of success , they have created an economic framework where the survival of the fittest has in many cases come to mean the survival of those who are best at avoiding controls on their activities without being caught . |
| 23 | Objects come to symbolise the tips of icebergs of information . |
| 24 | Bacharach and Lawler ( 1980 ) distinguish between what they call the bases of power ( or what is controlled that enables behaviour to be changed ) and sources of power ( or how individuals or groups come to control the bases of power ) . |
| 25 | As commerce and vested-interest groups come to understand the power and potential of public relations , so they will want to use it more . |
| 26 | [ Honeymoon , by the way , just in case you ca n't cut the etymological mustard , has only in recent times come to denote a nuptial holiday involving the purchase of duty-free goods and the taking of too many colour prints of exactly the same scene . |
| 27 | Finally , the monopolies come to dominate the educational system , the media and other social institutions so that they can control social values . |
| 28 | From the above brief outline of work attempting to get to grips with the character of aesthetic response it can be seen that it is both complex and ‘ multi-layered ’ , a term used by Greger ( 1972 ) to describe how multiple meanings come to attain a feeling of significance by being grasped at the threshold of consciousness . |
| 29 | The requirement , though , is for the effort to be made , so that students come to appreciate the standards of truth and evaluation internal to the discipline . |
| 30 | Many overseas students come to study the languages , history , culture and traditions of this country . |