Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world . |
| 2 | The voyage of HMS Beagle has come to eclipse those of the series of scientific voyages to which it belonged , because of the eminence of its naturalist-passenger . |
| 3 | The importance of ensuring a high turnout amongst E C nationals surely warrants something more than the complacency and drift that has come to characterise this government 's whole policy towards the European community . |
| 4 | ‘ I think the time has come to call this assignment over , ’ she said quietly . |
| 5 | Yes , the chicken and egg syndrome is interesting because and I agree it is a viscious circle , but in fact you do n't make new omelettes unless you do break some eggs , and I think the time has come to break some eggs and I think that 's what I 'm advocating is that it will come from the teacher because the teacher is the guiding light of what happens in the classroom , and if the teacher has it in the back of their mind there will be no science , then there will be no science . |
| 6 | Yes , the chicken and egg syndrome is interesting because and I agree it is a vicious circle , but in fact you do n't make new omelettes unless you do break some eggs , and I think the time has come to break some eggs and I think that 's what I 'm advocating is that it will come from the teacher because the teacher is the guiding light of what happens in the classroom , and if the teacher has it in the back of their mind there will be no science , then there will be no science . |
| 7 | It was not even ‘ love of life ’ — that is more like it , but the phrase has come to mean many things that could ( happily ) not be predicated of her . |
| 8 | Latterly the word ‘ harpy ’ has come to mean any person who is cruel or merciless , or who hungrily tries to appropriate the food or belongings of a weaker person . |
| 9 | The Russian occupation of Berlin in 1945 did not ‘ mean ’ the start of the cold war at the time , although , with hindsight , it has come to mean this . |
| 10 | At the same time the emergence of GCSE English has come to mean more than mere changes of emphasis at the upper end of secondary schools . |
| 11 | And I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church , and that is not going to go away . |
| 12 | I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church . |
| 13 | ‘ There was a time when I planned to live for ever , but the time has come to change those plans . ’ |
| 14 | I have no idea why it has come to bear that name . |
| 15 | So much so that I think the time has come to discard those tests which have proved so elusive . |
| 16 | Bureaucracy has come to have such enormous significance for government in communist states that some analysts claim that the whole political system warrants the epithet ‘ bureaucratic ’ . |
| 17 | Now I realise , with growing apprehension , that my fertile years will soon be over and that the time has come to make another choice . |
| 18 | Until now , though , we have glossed over descriptions of shot sizes , and the time has come to make these clearer . |
| 19 | The Perkins may have come to regret this decision because , after being eclipsed at the exhibition , the demand for their mauve dye decreased rapidly , and they found that the commercial potential for magenta dye had been grossly underestimated . |
| 20 | He spoke in a thick Northern Geordie dialect and , listening to it , she asked herself how Jessie could ever have come to love this young fellow ? |
| 21 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 22 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me you 've come to spend some money , ’ said Nubenehem in greeting . |
| 24 | They 've come to wake this gaffer up . |
| 25 | Right thank you Mr Chairman erm I welcome the report and erm it 's good to see that er the observations of the inspector have been taken on board and professionally addressed , erm I 've come to expect that , take that for granted from er Chief Officers . |
| 26 | Maybe it 's late , but we 've come to know each other , and , you know , I do n't feel lonely any more over there . ’ |
| 27 | Well , we 've come to deliver this furniture for Mr so-and-so at number twenty five . |
| 28 | Ramsay MacDonald , putting the matter rather bluntly , noted that trade unionists had come to acknowledge that , ‘ Labour could solve mining and similar difficulties through the ballot box . ’ |
| 29 | And so although his early contributors had come from the European tradition which preceded the Great War , by the early Thirties he had come to rely more and more upon British contributors . |
| 30 | Alexandra had come to see that , perhaps two years after the disastrous birthday party , finding her father in the midst of the flock at lambing time , naked to the waist like the other shepherds , his right arm streaked with the birth slime of the lambs whose arrival had been difficult . |