Example sentences of "[noun sg] have come [verb] [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's funny , every time we 've sat at our seats that bloke has come to ask the chap next to me |
| 4 | At the pragmatic level then , the rivalry has come to seem a lot less fierce than it did . |
| 5 | While in the nineteenth century , Marx appeared simply as an ‘ anti-theologian ’ , many of the themes in his work have come to play a role in more recent theological discussion . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Business has come to recognize the need to foster entrepreneurship ; failure to do so may result in a kind of in-house recession . ’ |
| 8 | Well because the postman had come to empty the letter box , right , so there was no point in mummy putting her letter in cos he 'd of just taken it out again |
| 9 | Ball had come to distrust the arguments he had himself encountered in London in 1965 . |
| 10 | We have a an order entry clerk who 's now ordering hundreds of orders a day and that is from a printout from our customers and that printout has come form the computer system of our customers . |
| 11 | On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island . |
| 12 | A distinctly mature audience had come to hear a band whose fortunes they 've followed for a quarter of a century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One generation had come to understand the trends within the International and the meaning of Stalinism , while another was ready to disregard such questions in an attempt to find a social solution to essentially personal problems " . |
| 15 | AN INDUSTRIAL tribunal in West London heard recently that lazy and undisciplined porters at an airport hotel had come to regard the lobby as their own personal fiefdom . |
| 16 | Islamic scholars writing in English have come to regard the story as being apocryphal . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mr. Lester submitted that the time has come to relax the rule to the extent which I have mentioned . |
| 19 | Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed , and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity . |
| 20 | But when science proposes to manipulate the life of a human baby , the time has come to call a halt … . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed , the Education & Training Directorate believes that the time has come to review the continuation of the policy of requiring all candidates to take papers in the same subjects . |
| 22 | Law : Crucial battle for the high moral ground : As Parliament prepares to debate embryo research , Simon Lee says the time has come to approach the issues more responsibly |
| 23 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
| 24 | The time has come to find a solution to prevent Britain becoming one big , dangerous rubbish tip . |
| 25 | ‘ This killing is totally unnecessary and unacceptably cruel and the time has come to end the killing . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The time has come to pay the strangers back in kind . |
| 27 | Again , there is no direct attribution ; the child reader has to come to know the conventions which are operating and the inferences which can be made . |
| 28 | The signing of its charter by representatives of 144 electric utilities with working nuclear power stations was a recognition that the time had come to take the secrecy out of nuclear power and prove that there was a worldwide interest in co-operation and information exchange . |
| 29 | The essence of the British suggestion was that the time had come to rationalise the proliferation of European institutions that had sprung up over the past decade , most specifically by introducing a single European assembly which , unrelated to any one organisation , would serve them all . |
| 30 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |