Example sentences of "has 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 Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed , and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity .
6 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 .
7 But when science proposes to manipulate the life of a human baby , the time has come to call a halt … . ’
8 For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve .
9 At the pragmatic level then , the rivalry has come to seem a lot less fierce than it did .
10 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 .
11 when it was envisaged as a form of national salvation ? it was conceived in compassion but has been born and bred in authoritarianism , profligacy and frustration , it aimed to liberate people from the slums but has come to represent an even worse form of bondage , it aspired to beautify the urban environment , but has been transmogrified into the epitome of ugliness .
12 She has come to help a diocesan Franciscan order here .
13 This works fairly well , but many people will consider that the time has come to consider a more rigid mounting .
14 Since he walked out of the cabinet in 1986 , Michael Heseltine has come to occupy a role in British politics that has few precedents .
15 Freudian in the modern world , has come to mean a belief , predominantly , that human behaviour is influenced by early experience .
16 The time has come to find a solution to prevent Britain becoming one big , dangerous rubbish tip .
17 ( 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 .
18 In the world of manuscripts , ‘ miniature ’ has come to have a rather puzzling significance .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 ‘ Biogeography is a field of study which has come to assume a slightly different meaning for different disciplines .
22 ‘ 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 . ’
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