Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the Americans have come to agree that Congress can , despite the First Amendment , make laws stopping people from shouting " fire " in crowded theatres . |
| 2 | This quality weighting , missing in the previous calculation , can precisely be computed by using a technique inspired by what econometricians have come to call hedonic regression . |
| 3 | Hence we have come to rely more and more on books , classes and professional advice to tell us how to give birth and bring up children . |
| 4 | After the first flutters of excitement in the immediate aftermath of war about GIs , nylon stockings , bubble-gum , television , flashy motorcars , labour-saving gadgetry and all-American razzle-dazzle , caricatures of ‘ Americanisation ’ have come to carry enormous authority within postwar deliberations on the decline of the old ‘ way of life ’ . |
| 5 | Their faces have come to represent little more than voluble wealth . |
| 6 | The most recent are the football hooligans , who for many people , and not least the feature writers of our Sunday newspapers , have come to represent all that is most senseless and destructive in our society . |
| 7 | So I have come to do that . ’ |
| 8 | Faced with this threat from building societies to their share in the savings market , banks have come to attach greater significance to the personal sector and to its importance as a source of profits . |
| 9 | His explanation is not , as is often supposed , the fact that in Britain multi-employer agreements failed to determine actual earnings levels in the workplace , or that employers have come to prefer independent negotiations . |
| 10 | Registry users of the student management system have come to feel secure in their data processing and take the assistance of information technology very much for granted . |
| 11 | Two ongoing debates have come to assume some prominence in recent years . |
| 12 | I have now visited the clinics twice and have come to know many of the volunteer workers from Australia , France , Holland and Britain as well as many of the patients living in the Calcutta slums . |
| 13 | They too have come to accept temporary working and , by showing concern for their conditions of employment , are making temporary workers one of the main targets of their recruitment drives . |
| 14 | Social perspectives on cognition have come to accept cultural differences not as deficits but as important variation . |
| 15 | Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , said that " the arrogant alliance forces have not united for the sake of righteousness … but have come to victimize fraternal Iraq " . |
| 16 | The war has torn the scales from our eyes , and forced us to see things as they really are , and by the light of this clearer vision we have come to regard many conditions as intolerable which before had only seemed inevitable … |
| 17 | A relatively small number of these have come to occupy focal positions in discussions of lexical semantics ( such relations as antonymy , hyponymy and synonymy ) , and they form correspondingly prominent topics of the present and succeeding chapters . |
| 18 | They are not necessarily closely related ; but have come to look alike because they forage for food in places such as wetlands and grasslands where these physical features have an advantage . |
| 19 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
| 20 | It is precisely through the evolution of conceptualising capacities ( and , in particular , of language enabling complex social interactions ) that human beings have come to dominate other species . |
| 21 | Through its support the white upper middle and upper classes have come to dominate all arts and culture . |
| 22 | As risen apes we have come to dominate this small planet so effectively that we are in danger of smothering it . |
| 23 | Is the uniformity we have come to expect necessary ? |
| 24 | People have come to expect that . |
| 25 | We have come to expect super classes on this course , and we were not disappointed ! |
| 26 | Lawrence described Pears as marvellous ‘ but then we have come to expect those sort of saves from him . ’ |
| 27 | One of the authors summarized the position in the words : ‘ Since 1922 we have come to recognise more and more that chemotherapy in the sense in which Ehrlich introduced the term , is more of a dream than a reality ’ . |
| 28 | Statistics have come to convey three rather different ideas : |