Example sentences of "[adj] have come [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
| 2 | Equally , almost half had come to see the company for the first time . |
| 3 | As a result society at large has come to accept the devaluation of the economic role of ‘ older people ’ as defined by these ages . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As life expectancy has increased and earlier retirement has become more widespread in the twentieth century , so the elderly have come to comprise an ever larger section of the poor . |
| 6 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 7 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to the high-rise blocks miles away . |