Example sentences of "come [prep] [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The income figure , particularly expressed as a ratio of net investment , has come to be the ultimate test of a company 's success or failure . |
| 2 | That 's why we 've come to be the two individuals who are , in inverted comma , Responsible for whatever happens during an incident . |
| 3 | By his time , as his biographies bear witness , the primary fact of the scholarly life had come to be the learned hierarchy and the most important data about a scholar to be that concerning his progress in the hierarchy . |
| 4 | Combining the new technique with the scientific system of the Roman law , Gratian and his school were able to provide the Church with what came to be the first part of its corpus of official law . |
| 5 | In 1874 J. T. W. Mitchell became Chairman of the CWS , and ‘ under his strong hand its activities were , Cole writes , ‘ rapidly developed ; and it was largely due to his personal influence that the ‘ federal ’ principle of consumers ' control came to be the accepted principle of the main body of the Movement . ’ |
| 6 | Decretal letters , in answer to queries about particular legal points , came to be the major source of declaration during the twelfth century , more numerous than the decrees of councils but not so easily disseminated for use . |
| 7 | Going to another church ( of the Presbyterian Church of England ) my love of God came to be the central factor in my life , and aged almost sixteen I told my headmistress with quiet confidence that I wished to be ordained . |
| 8 | Such a tendency probably favoured individual survival , particularly in a situation in which hunting — a skill which has to be learned — was coming to be the dominant subsistence activity . |