Example sentences of "[verb] come [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The time has come to kick fast food . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I think the time has come to consider extra reward financially for your loyalty . |
| 5 | Art Deco has come to mean brilliant colours , curved upholstery and angular , geometric designs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Since that time HIV has come to dominate gay life in this country . |
| 10 | Variable analysis is an inferential structure , a form of methodological reasoning , that has come to dominate social research . |
| 11 | I 've come to say good night , Lizzie . |
| 12 | We 've come to do Merry Monk , an HVS at its left-hand end which requires us to traverse carefully along its base just above the slow-moving water , grasping strange iron spikes driven into the rock . |
| 13 | He had come to entertain serious doubts about it himself . |
| 14 | It had come to represent important sections of socialized nations , mass societies , and in this responsible role social democrats were required to do their patriotic duty when war threatened ‘ their ’ ruling order . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He admitted the Council had begun slowly , but said that was inevitable , and that bishops would work better now they had come to understand different points of view . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After the first flutters of excitement in the immediate aftermath of war about GIs , nylon stockings , bubble-gum , television , flashy motorcars , labour-saving gadgetry and all-American razzle-dazzle , caricatures of ‘ Americanisation ’ have come to carry enormous authority within postwar deliberations on the decline of the old ‘ way of life ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Social perspectives on cognition have come to accept cultural differences not as deficits but as important variation . |
| 21 | Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , said that " the arrogant alliance forces have not united for the sake of righteousness … but have come to victimize fraternal Iraq " . |
| 22 | A relatively small number of these have come to occupy focal positions in discussions of lexical semantics ( such relations as antonymy , hyponymy and synonymy ) , and they form correspondingly prominent topics of the present and succeeding chapters . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We have come to expect super classes on this course , and we were not disappointed ! |