Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 2 | Now , with all Europe freed to unite ( or to fall apart ) , the time has come to devise a shorter , clearer replacement of all that has gone before — a constitution designed for a larger and more disparate union . |
| 3 | ‘ And now I think the time has come to explore a little further . ’ |
| 4 | The time has come to take a closer look at that assumption . |
| 5 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 6 | But when science proposes to manipulate the life of a human baby , the time has come to call a halt … . ’ |
| 7 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
| 8 | At the pragmatic level then , the rivalry has come to seem a lot less fierce than it did . |
| 9 | In her catalogue introduction Alexandra Noble notes the extent to which installation art , using hybrid forms , has come to represent a challenge to the modernist emphasis on the purity of the particular medium . |
| 10 | She has come to help a diocesan Franciscan order here . |
| 11 | This works fairly well , but many people will consider that the time has come to consider a more rigid mounting . |
| 12 | Since he walked out of the cabinet in 1986 , Michael Heseltine has come to occupy a role in British politics that has few precedents . |
| 13 | Freudian in the modern world , has come to mean a belief , predominantly , that human behaviour is influenced by early experience . |
| 14 | The time has come to find a solution to prevent Britain becoming one big , dangerous rubbish tip . |
| 15 | ( ii ) Teachers should explain how Standard English has come to have a wide social and geographical currency and to be the form of English most frequently used on formal , public occasions and in writing . |
| 16 | In the world of manuscripts , ‘ miniature ’ has come to have a rather puzzling significance . |
| 17 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 18 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to the high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 19 | ‘ Biogeography is a field of study which has come to assume a slightly different meaning for different disciplines . |
| 20 | ‘ The company has been a wonderful part of my life , but I feel the time has come to permit a younger generation to take the reins . ’ |
| 21 | The time may have come to urge a historic settlement , whereby people in Essex can hang each other to their hearts ' content so long as they do not interfere with traditional sporting practices in the rest of the country . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've come to see a young man from the place where I work , ’ she said , trying to sound firm and businesslike . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've come to discuss a deal I 'd like to do with you , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ Unless you 've come to lend a hand with the preparations ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've come to make a complaint . ’ |
| 26 | The road system built up since the Romans had come to serve a much heavier traffic load in the later Middle Ages as the county became wealthier . |
| 27 | Given the party 's increasingly isolated situation , given its general lack of prestigious cultural figures , it is not surprising that by 1928 Barbusse had come to enjoy a particularly favoured position within the ranks of the PCF itself . |
| 28 | Its end was marked by the instability of the dollar and the end of US financial domination , and much of the chaos of this period was attributable to the fact that no other country had come to take a hegemonic role . |
| 29 | He added that holding the hostages had " given a great service to the cause of peace " but that the time had come to take a final decision on this " humanitarian issue " . |
| 30 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |