Example sentences of "come [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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31 It was an important vehicle of terror in the Stalinist period and , by the time of Stalin 's death , had come to occupy a place in the state machinery which in some ways undermined the position of the Communist Party itself ; everyone came under suspicion .
32 Since he walked out of the cabinet in 1986 , Michael Heseltine has come to occupy a role in British politics that has few precedents .
33 Freudian in the modern world , has come to mean a belief , predominantly , that human behaviour is influenced by early experience .
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