Example sentences of "has come [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years .
2 The time has come to take a closer look at that assumption .
3 The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees .
4 For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve .
5 Last week Lord Skelmersdale told the Lords that ‘ the government 's decision is that the time has come to implement the 1975 Act … . it is the large number of reservoirs for which no one appears to take responsibility which gives rise to the greatest concern , he added .
6 Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ .
7 Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world .
8 In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's .
9 Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business .
10 Its own root is ‘ thought ’ , and from that it has come to mean the inner debate of a person who is reasoning with himself .
11 The life-is-a-party world of Xuxa has come to portray the official version of Brazilian reality , with its glossy blondes and creamy morenas — and very few blacks .
12 Thus , ‘ Congress has come to dominate the national politics of federalism , and its members have gained that dominance by crawling inside the details of federal grant programmes and examining the effects of the distribution of federal money ’ , instead of the states deciding it themselves .
13 ‘ 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 . ’
14 It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it .
15 The time has come to bring the two modules together in the big program called EVOLUTION .
16 Over this period an influential school of thought called monetarism has developed around his ideas and has come to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy as the dominant academic influence over monetary policy .
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