Example sentences of "[noun sg] came [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , with Stalin 's ascent to power after the revolution , his pamphlet came to define the orthodoxies of the world Communist movement . |
| 2 | The miners and their families were themselves implicated in the creation of their coalfield culture , through the operation of hegemonic processes by which relations of domination and subdomination came to imbue the entire lived experience — the social practices , relationships , expectations , and dominant values . |
| 3 | Alternatively , from the mid-1970s , a new libertarian strand of thinking came to dominate the Conservative party . |
| 4 | Charles Keating Jr , the multi-millionaire whose speculative activities and subsequent financial collapse came to epitomize the massive failure of the savings and loan industry , was convicted on 17 counts of securities fraud by a California Superior Court on Dec. 4 . |
| 5 | The two sequences testify to the importance which a monastic community attached to its corporate ideal , and the steps by which a final and fatal resort to forgery came to appear the only path to a just solution . |
| 6 | The Governor of Kenya and the Minister of Defence came to inspect the camp . |
| 7 | Sometimes he could feel as if this were a frontier post , with everything out there just waiting and passing time until the opportunity came to grab the territory back . |
| 8 | Village help of the Yaxlee variety came to do the flowers and clean the floor . |
| 9 | In other cases , the ‘ will they or wo n't they adopt me ’ issue came to dominate the placement to the exclusion of all other considerations . |
| 10 | If he walked in or the girl came to clean the grate , she 'd pretend to be talking to a tradesman : ‘ It really was more fat than lean . |
| 11 | Then a young lady came to open the gate , and let me in . |
| 12 | " Coming from the continent and sweeping over Britain from east to west , then crossing the Irish Sea , a military aristocracy of Celtic origin came to dominate the land and impose its way of life on the indigenous peoples . |
| 13 | The electrician came to mend the cooker could n't find the fault ( = The electrician who came … ) |
| 14 | There was nothing mysterious about the process by which a small but significant segment of the intelligentsia came to espouse the cause of a class to which they did not belong . |
| 15 | In another village in the hills where there was a Christian community the village pastor came to find the chaplain and explained that they were about to hold a service of thanksgiving for their liberation and would like some of the troops to attend . |
| 16 | By July 1988 , when the House of Commons Energy Committee came to reassess the figures , it concluded that ‘ many of the critical assumptions that underlay the Inquiry Inspector 's view that Sizewell B will be economic are no longer tenable ’ . |
| 17 | When the Data Protection Committee came to consider the case for legislation it had no doubt that the public sector presented the greater set of problems : the complex modern government bureaucracies at national and local level are great consumers of personal information about citizens — mostly to the citizens ' benefit , of course , but some of the possibilities of linkage , network-formation and hence secret profile-building about identifiable individuals seemed frightening . |
| 18 | They kept quiet while the caretaker came to shut the windows in the evening . |
| 19 | The transference of Ernest Bevin direct from the leadership of Britain 's largest trade union to the Ministry of Labour , symbolized Labour 's role in the new order — not least because Bevin 's control over the allocation of manpower came to displace the traditional operations of the Treasury , as the lynch-pin of Government economic management . |
| 20 | In global terms , the industrial advance of the United States and Germany insisted on a reappraisal of Britain 's position in the world economy , while the muddled fortunes of the Boer War came to underline the fragility of the British Empire in military terms . |
| 21 | When the Community came to consider the application , one of the things that it would wish to ensure was that the benefit of the membership would be available to the whole community . |
| 22 | The day came to collect the dog . |
| 23 | Thus finding new and cheap ways of producing helium came to occupy the minds of two German chemists at the University of Berlin : Fritz Paneth and Kurt Peters . |
| 24 | He helped to draft the Grand Remonstrance reciting the chief points of the king 's misgovernment ( November 1641 ) , and forced his ‘ entire friend ’ William Strode to seek sanctuary in the City when the king came to arrest the ‘ five members ’ ( 4 January 1642 ) . |
| 25 | For Nesta Webster the French Revolution came to represent the cause of all the problems of the modern world . |
| 26 | then when his great moment came and his wife came to cut the cake all the photographers suddenly decided they needed to clean the lenses of their camera and his wife 's picture was never taken . |
| 27 | One night two men very big in British film comedy came to see the show . |
| 28 | Our Lord came to inaugurate the Kingdom . |
| 29 | Instead democracy came to embody the more limited claim that the working class had the right to compete within the established state institutions and within the established society , with the clear expectation that they would not use the state to intervene in society to effect fundamental change . |
| 30 | With the Arcady experience behind her , Sharon was soon thrust into another radically different musical environment when the offer came to join The Waterboys . |