Example sentences of "[verb] come [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The importance of ensuring a high turnout amongst E C nationals surely warrants something more than the complacency and drift that has come to characterise this government 's whole policy towards the European community . |
| 4 | The time has come to kick fast food . |
| 5 | ‘ I think the time has come to call this assignment over , ’ she said quietly . |
| 6 | And I think the time has come to consider extra reward financially for your loyalty . |
| 7 | Latterly the word ‘ harpy ’ has come to mean any person who is cruel or merciless , or who hungrily tries to appropriate the food or belongings of a weaker person . |
| 8 | And I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church , and that is not going to go away . |
| 9 | I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church . |
| 10 | I have no idea why it has come to bear that name . |
| 11 | Now I realise , with growing apprehension , that my fertile years will soon be over and that the time has come to make another choice . |
| 12 | Since that time HIV has come to dominate gay life in this country . |
| 13 | Variable analysis is an inferential structure , a form of methodological reasoning , that has come to dominate social research . |
| 14 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 15 | The Perkins may have come to regret this decision because , after being eclipsed at the exhibition , the demand for their mauve dye decreased rapidly , and they found that the commercial potential for magenta dye had been grossly underestimated . |
| 16 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 17 | He remembered coming awake some time earlier , when the hall door had slammed and high heels had clicked down the steps , passing beneath his window . |
| 18 | If we did come to allow such authority , or privacy , to the machine enormous consequences would follow , for its blueprints and machine programs would no longer be a safe guide to its future behaviour . |
| 19 | In the first place , we had to come to know each other , to establish a community of interest , and so we used the early tours and concert schedules to play through the orchestra , s main repertory . |
| 20 | I 've come to say good night , Lizzie . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me you 've come to spend some money , ’ said Nubenehem in greeting . |
| 22 | They 've come to wake this gaffer up . |
| 23 | Maybe it 's late , but we 've come to know each other , and , you know , I do n't feel lonely any more over there . ’ |
| 24 | Well , we 've come to deliver this furniture for Mr so-and-so at number twenty five . |
| 25 | This is slightly curious , because a ‘ law ’ in science had come to mean some relationship which had been derived from experiment . |
| 26 | And they had come to feel that pulse . |
| 27 | She had come to recognize that silence , to smell it , almost . |
| 28 | I had come to dread that word — not that I was n't all in favour of efficiency generally but I did feel that there were times when other criteria applied . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Although some Labour politicians clung to the belief that peace could be maintained , most had come to accept that war was inevitable by 1936 , confirmed in their opinion by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War . |