Example sentences of "[noun] have come [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter confusion set in and , from scenes of events , groups of figures , etc. , presented on a very small scale , the term has come to mean elaborate pictures , much more ambitious than the historiations and sometimes extending to the whole of a large page . |
| 2 | The aircraft had come to rest inverted in a ploughed potato field with the sail and engine on top of the pilot . |
| 3 | A woman will say something like , ‘ Oh look , he 's got a cute butt ’ and some geek standing next to her , sensing that his chance has come to make serious waves in the world of sexual politics , will whine , ‘ You would n't like that if I said that about a girl . ’ |
| 4 | It is , however , suggested that where a new basis for constitutionality has come to enjoy universal acknowledgment or sufficiently widespread acquiescence , the judge 's obligation to uphold the law points in the direction of endorsing charge rather than blindly ignoring it . |
| 5 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 6 | But , besides the fact that the details of his method can not be read into many of the advances made in the sciences , his promise of certainty has come to seem inappropriate . |
| 7 | Since that time HIV has come to dominate gay life in this country . |
| 8 | Coincidentally , the two young men had come creaming close into the shore , as if attracted like the small , black flies . |
| 9 | Eliot 's Four Quartets , like Pound 's Cantos , alternate dizzyingly between the sceptical and the dogmatic , and by the 1950s that paradox had come to look insoluble . |
| 10 | Social perspectives on cognition have come to accept cultural differences not as deficits but as important variation . |
| 11 | It is precisely through the evolution of conceptualising capacities ( and , in particular , of language enabling complex social interactions ) that human beings have come to dominate other species . |
| 12 | Registry users of the student management system have come to feel secure in their data processing and take the assistance of information technology very much for granted . |
| 13 | His explanation is not , as is often supposed , the fact that in Britain multi-employer agreements failed to determine actual earnings levels in the workplace , or that employers have come to prefer independent negotiations . |
| 14 | The time has come to kick fast food . |
| 15 | Perhaps also the time has come to abandon content free systems and move towards the development of a knowledge-based program , using grid method but specifically designed to enhance the perception and appreciation of art . |
| 16 | Officials said he would have the same message for all — the time has come to revive direct Arab-Israeli negotiations . |
| 17 | When the doctor confirms that it is important to provide care , or when too much anxiety is felt in leaving an elderly person alone , the time has come to consider alternative options . |
| 18 | And I think the time has come to consider extra reward financially for your loyalty . |
| 19 | The problem is that just like the ‘ moral treatments ’ of the nineteenth century , normalization has come to mean different things to different people , and professionals who have espoused the concept of ‘ normalization ’ often proselytize their views with a religious fervour which , though often motivating to fellow staff , can be alienating to those who are unfamiliar with the concept . |
| 20 | This quality weighting , missing in the previous calculation , can precisely be computed by using a technique inspired by what econometricians have come to call hedonic regression . |