Example sentences of "[verb] come [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 2 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 3 | But when science proposes to manipulate the life of a human baby , the time has come to call a halt … . ’ |
| 4 | At the pragmatic level then , the rivalry has come to seem a lot less fierce than it did . |
| 5 | In her catalogue introduction Alexandra Noble notes the extent to which installation art , using hybrid forms , has come to represent a challenge to the modernist emphasis on the purity of the particular medium . |
| 6 | Since he walked out of the cabinet in 1986 , Michael Heseltine has come to occupy a role in British politics that has few precedents . |
| 7 | Freudian in the modern world , has come to mean a belief , predominantly , that human behaviour is influenced by early experience . |
| 8 | The time has come to find a solution to prevent Britain becoming one big , dangerous rubbish tip . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Surprisingly for a royal justice of this period , there is no evidence of Rothbury accumulating lands or other property , although he did come to hold a number of benefices and in 1306 and 1307 received papal dispensation to do so . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've come to discuss a deal I 'd like to do with you , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ Unless you 've come to lend a hand with the preparations ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've come to make a complaint . ’ |
| 15 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 16 | The need to raise money for John II 's ransom had led to the levying of a salt tax and taxes on merchandise throughout the kingdom , and by 1367 these taxes had come to acquire a look of permanence . |
| 17 | She had met him back home in the west country when he had come to supervise a show put on by one of the big ready-to-wear labels , Carnega , for whom he worked as a junior member of the design team . |
| 18 | It was an important vehicle of terror in the Stalinist period and , by the time of Stalin 's death , had come to occupy a place in the state machinery which in some ways undermined the position of the Communist Party itself ; everyone came under suspicion . |
| 19 | The fact that the cold war lasted so much longer than the economic idyll meant that Americans never adjusted to the fact that , economically , their country had long ceased to be able to deliver the annual increase in prosperity they had come to consider a birthright . |
| 20 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 21 | A distinctly mature audience had come to hear a band whose fortunes they 've followed for a quarter of a century . |
| 22 | Farrel explained that he was an agricultural student and had come to lend a hand with the harvest . |
| 23 | Over the last twenty years , we have come to draw a distinction between the initial and continuing training of teachers . |
| 24 | I have already mentioned how the left and right distinction has begun to evaporate as formally opposed groups have come to share a sense of what race is . |
| 25 | While in the nineteenth century , Marx appeared simply as an ‘ anti-theologian ’ , many of the themes in his work have come to play a role in more recent theological discussion . |
| 26 | ‘ I have come to register a co-operative . ’ |
| 27 | An open question , such as — " How should we deal with this man who 's come to do a survey for the railway company ? " — can be very intimidating . |