Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | term once used for a person who collected alms for lepers and other beggars ; the term came to have a bad meaning because of the abuse of the system . |
| 2 | Alternatively , from the mid-1970s , a new libertarian strand of thinking came to dominate the Conservative party . |
| 3 | Charles Keating Jr , the multi-millionaire whose speculative activities and subsequent financial collapse came to epitomize the massive failure of the savings and loan industry , was convicted on 17 counts of securities fraud by a California Superior Court on Dec. 4 . |
| 4 | The two sequences testify to the importance which a monastic community attached to its corporate ideal , and the steps by which a final and fatal resort to forgery came to appear the only path to a just solution . |
| 5 | But the technology that permitted the almost immediate availability of match results and reports meant that sport came to occupy a larger place in the daily national press . |
| 6 | Sport came to have an important place in the BBC canon of ‘ good ’ entertainment , though boxing did not meet with full official approval . |
| 7 | The transference of Ernest Bevin direct from the leadership of Britain 's largest trade union to the Ministry of Labour , symbolized Labour 's role in the new order — not least because Bevin 's control over the allocation of manpower came to displace the traditional operations of the Treasury , as the lynch-pin of Government economic management . |
| 8 | The sun came to have an extraordinary effect on me . |
| 9 | One respect in which the war came to acquire an international dimension concerned its impact on shipping . |
| 10 | And while he was resting , over the hill came flying the dark Swift , screaming as he went , " News ! |
| 11 | Yet after 1750 this group came to acquire a special connection with the provinces through its links with the country banks . |
| 12 | Beneath the Treasurer , the Chancellor of the Exchequer came to exercise an effective supervision both of receipt and of audit . |
| 13 | For Tom Mann , who became the ITF 's first president , the organisation came to have an additional aim with which Wilson had little sympathy — that of advancing the cause of international socialism . |
| 14 | It was in the next stage , when writing came to carry an increasing proportion of law , learning , religion and history , previously carried in oral forms , that very marked cultural divisions , already socially present in preliterate societies , became , as it were , technically stabilized . |
| 15 | Public spending came to take a larger share of the nation 's resources even though each service was keeping to its real volume target . |
| 16 | The end result of interaction appears to be that the longer one survives after myocardial infarct the closer one 's life expectancy comes to match the normal population . |
| 17 | Each god 's burden came to signify the particular omen of the division of time in question . |
| 18 | Now plant enthusiasts from all over the world come to admire the four acres of flower borders and lawns . |
| 19 | Its modern quays were well suited to accommodate the new large ships , known as cogs , which in the course of the second half of the twelfth century came to dominate the maritime trade of the Baltic , North Sea and Channel coasts . |
| 20 | When the decision comes to plant a new church , one of the great joys that initially the team finds is that of intimacy with one another : a true fellowship . |
| 21 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 22 | In pursuing his dream of nuclear powered aircraft Tank came to know an Austrian refugee named Richter who had been a nuclear physicist in Hitler 's Germany and was another of the new generation of South Americans . |
| 23 | The Ipswich equaliser came following a disputed corner , but Dalglish 's fury was directed at his own defence rather than the match official . |
| 24 | the family came to watch the eldest son , |
| 25 | The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning . |
| 26 | When the time came to launch a leading brand of canned pork and beans in the Canadian market , the advertising company decided to continue the campaign that had worked successfully in other English-speaking areas , and retained the name Big John 's . |
| 27 | From its inception , traditional medicine came to form an integral part of the popular health system , while in the ‘ official ’ system it was either ignored and ridiculed or was incorporated and exploited for profit . |
| 28 | School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents , but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports . |