Example sentences of "had come [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that holding the hostages had " given a great service to the cause of peace " but that the time had come to take a final decision on this " humanitarian issue " . |
| 2 | Its end was marked by the instability of the dollar and the end of US financial domination , and much of the chaos of this period was attributable to the fact that no other country had come to take a hegemonic role . |
| 3 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 4 | A review of this coverage supports the conclusion that the refusal of tenure to MacCabe was related to a sense among Cambridge traditionalists that the time had come to mount a strong resistance to further incursions by the tendency MacCabe was thought to support . |
| 5 | The baby inside the womb , therefore , had come to associate a particular signature tune with a peaceful and relaxed time , and had continued this association even after birth . |
| 6 | By the early 1980s these had come to occupy a central position in the commercial life of Hong Kong , with businesses in widely dispersed fields , financed on a great scale by advances from institutional investors . |
| 7 | During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin . |
| 8 | Sometimes she would be invited to her sister 's house , but not too often now , because it must be admitted that with the passing of the years Aunt Nessy had come to look a little eccentric . |
| 9 | Committed to the cult of the workers as ‘ disinterested ’ opponents of militarism , they generally remained silent about the degree to which workers themselves had come to have a vested interest in the arms race . |
| 10 | " English " , then , by the first decade of the new century , had come to have a multi-faceted character due to its variation of role within the new provincial colleges , Oxbridge , and the national system of schooling . |
| 11 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |