Example sentences of "come to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , three years ago , news of Implexion 's investiture into the Chamber of Ten had come to the Redoubt , Dauntless had locked himself in one of the private chapels for two days . |
| 2 | The Right has prompted the Left to ponder that perhaps capitalism and democracy have come to the parting of ways ; perhaps there is more life in the democratic road to socialism than many have chosen to suppose ; and so perhaps there are things that need to be defended and advanced from within the British constitution itself . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've come to the parting of the ways . |
| 4 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 5 | The drama group there has come to The Culture Club regularly . |
| 6 | In the twentieth century the battles have been over quite different issues and in the courts the hitherto ancillary matters of child custody and maintenance have come to the fore . |
| 7 | ‘ Look how that 's come to the fore , ’ remarked a Bristol listener , ‘ we never used to know anything about it and now there 's many would n't miss it . ’ |
| 8 | Since the ability to draw is not seen as particularly important , this state of affairs has not come to the fore . |
| 9 | Howell has come to the fore this season , being instrumental in getting Civil Service into third place in the league behind Kelburne and Torbrex Wanderers with his impressive defensive record . |
| 10 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 11 | The politics of local government have come to the fore just as the powers of local government have declined . |
| 12 | It 's possible that the man who stands on the winner 's podium on the Champs Elysées on the afternoon of Sunday 26 July will have come to the fore in the last two days . |
| 13 | Several lines of evidence for insect intelligence have come to the fore , but a little careful thinking , observation , and experimentation indicate that most of these criteria are untrustworthy . |
| 14 | Botulism is another fatal disease which has come to the fore in recent years . |
| 15 | His competitive streak has always come to the fore in head-to-head situations , such as the World Match Play and the Ryder Cup . |
| 16 | Demands to bring forward the age of retirement come to the fore ; for older people to continue working is seen to be selfish , depriving younger people of opportunity . |
| 17 | Yet , increasingly , arguments about the effects of privatisation on the state 's finances , rather than discussion about the appropriate role of the state , have come to the fore as the revenue gained from asset sales has become sizeable . |
| 18 | Mention a low cost tank and all the issues of new or salvaged glass , glass thickness , and quality of build come to the fore . |
| 19 | And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh . |
| 20 | Being black has always been in my subconscious , but I 've tried never to let this come to the fore . |
| 21 | Janine 's white face made Sarah 's natural good nature come to the fore . |
| 22 | The problem , which has long troubled white consciences , has come to the fore now because of a decision by the High Court that in one case aborigines have a legal claim to lands where they hunted before the white man came . |
| 23 | The ideal of ‘ listening to the text ’ and allowing different possible ‘ readings ’ has come to the fore , helped by a new appreciation of Jewish exegesis , often through joint study with Jews ( as was recommended in Nostra Aetate 4 ) , and by refreshing contributions from students of other literatures . |
| 24 | In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government . |
| 25 | Only in Namibia , did treaty reasoning come to the fore , and that was in the context of termination of the Mandate by the General Assembly for material breach , when it was desired to establish a new legal regime over the territory . |
| 26 | Passive smoking has come to the fore . |
| 27 | In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) . |
| 28 | In the process we have observed , two new urban phenomena have come to the fore : the outer city and the inner city , both urban environments with distinct challenges for planned regulation . |
| 29 | Sarah 's old jealousy had come to the fore — she wanted Isaac to inherit all of Abraham 's wealth and his elder son , Ishmael , to have none . |
| 30 | [ … ] It is perhaps no coincidence that only when one is prepared to recognize that the firm is based on authority do issues of power come to the fore in the theory of the firm . |