Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] come to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If crime and disorder follow a U-shape pattern of long-term change , the legitimacy of the police — the extent to which they are broadly accepted as valid in mission and methods — has followed an inverse path : an upside-down U. Starting from the widespread opposition encountered at the birth of the new police , opposition gradually came to be located primarily within the less ‘ respectable ’ sections of the working class , as well as in the wider working class during periods of labour conflict . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the development of administrative networks has intensified and tactics from counselling to cajoling have been employed , as the efficacy of the legal procedures and their sanctions in the fight against truancy increasingly comes to be doubted in some quarters . |
| 3 | Adjustment also came to be regarded as a problem relevant to deficit and not to surplus countries . |
| 4 | The rynd and the spindle soon came to be made from iron to be more durable , and the handle was developed to become a lever for turning the runner stone by animal power . |
| 5 | The tax thus came to be seen as an impost on the whole community , to which the general assent of the community was required . |
| 6 | As we shall see , however , this sense of cultural vitality later comes to be severely inhibited by fears of social instability . |
| 7 | A pattern of trouble quickly came to be associated with the street gangs . |
| 8 | During the postwar period the idea of democracy also came to be expressed in new terms — differing profoundly from the restrictive meaning which Schumpeter , Weber and others had imparted to it through its association with the idea of citizenship . |
| 9 | The image soon came to be reproduced in Teutonic style . |
| 10 | Full employment gradually came to be thought of as a fact of life whilst percentage rates of growth of this or that economic measure became the punctuation of political rhetoric . |
| 11 | As a fully-masculinized professional field , the study of English increasingly came to be organized according to hierarchical administration , specialization , and approved modes of scholarship . |
| 12 | After almost 10 years in University history teaching I was concerned that my students seemed to have very little idea of how history actually came to be written and of what criteria might be used to decide whether one book was more worth reading than another . |
| 13 | But with more declaration of the law by the pope there came to be a demand , particularly among judges and scholars , for compendiums or collections of these decisions , for the canon law was , like English common law , a case law or law built upon precedent . |