Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the [noun sg] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever the circus came to a new town he used to dress up in his costume and go out into the streets with a clown on stilts and do a turn . |
| 2 | The problem then is to explain how the state came to be formed historically , through the dissolution of the primitive communal group ; and a broadly Marxist account of this process ( leaving aside here the diverse interpretations and controversies among Marxist sociologists and anthropologists ) rests essentially upon the conception of a change in the mode of production , involving a greater inequality of property , which itself is brought about by a development of the forces of production through technological progress . |
| 3 | It was left for Garvey to explain how the village came to be deserted and why it no longer offered cosy prospects for a snug winter . |
| 4 | How the myth came to be seems clear enough . |
| 5 | Paley begins Natural Theology with a famous passage : In crossing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer . |
| 6 | ‘ It is still not clear how the child came to be in the river , ’ a police spokesman said last night . |
| 7 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 8 | But in addition there remained the puzzle of how the helium came to be in the springs . |
| 9 | God knows how the treasury comes to be so desperate poor . |
| 10 | Wimsatt and Beardsley 's approach is thus not a-historical , but it severely restricts the role of history in literary study , relegating questions about ‘ how the poem came to be ’ to a different , and by implication inferior , branch of enquiry . |
| 11 | ‘ Please tell me , Mr Downes , how the key came to be in your possession ? |
| 12 | ‘ Will you tell me about how the body came to be discovered ? ’ |
| 13 | I immediately washed my hands and the knife suspecting poison , but one thing still puzzled me : how the apple came to be there . |
| 14 | The girl could not explain how the locket came to be among her clothes , and it was clear that her protestations of innocence were in vain . |
| 15 | Only it did n't explain how the medallion came to be in her mother 's possession . |
| 16 | It has no emotional effect upon the reader because it does n't show how the poet came to these conclusions . |
| 17 | ( a ) Where the judge comes to the conclusion that the prosecution evidence , taken at its highest , is such that a jury properly directed could not properly convict upon it , it is his duty , upon a submission being made , to stop the case . |
| 18 | Gary Speed and Rod Wallace are both very good at what I would term ‘ reflex volleys ’ where the ball comes to them quickly or from an awkward angle , but perhaps not so good when they have time to think about it . |
| 19 | Only on the very clearest days , when the air was like the purest well-water , shadowy blots appeared to the west and north to show where the forest came to an end at hills , mountains … but they were a world away , two , three , four days ' journeying … if one dared . |
| 20 | The force on side 2 is unc whence the torque comes to unc where 0 is the angle between the plane of the loop and the vertical direction . |
| 21 | Every region is proud to show off its specialities when the Tour comes to town , both in food and wine . |
| 22 | Since 1979 , when the Government came to power , coal imports have increased from 4 million tonnes to 19 millions tonnes , an increase of 346 per cent. , which has had the effect of wiping out the coal fields of south Wales , damaging our balance of payments , costing the taxpayer £8,500 for every one of the tens of thousands of unemployed miners , and making us dreadfully dependent on foreign supplies . |
| 23 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 24 | Will he now give us the figures for the whole period since 1979 , when the Government came to office ? |
| 25 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 26 | That was when the idea came to her . |
| 27 | He could n't tell when the singing came to an end , or the Archbishop 's voice was first raised , addressing the city ; offering it God 's peace and succour so long as the Feast of Christ lasted . |
| 28 | You should keep a register of when the child comes to you together with basic information like his date of birth , doctor 's name and phone number . |
| 29 | Yeah , but what I 'm saying is that , yeah , but what I 'm saying is when the parent comes to you and says well the primary school said they were you can say well well yes but by by our standards and our assessment when they arrived here |
| 30 | If , contrary to this sworn determination , the defence of justification is not proceeded with when the matter comes to trial , his conduct in recklessly signalling a defence which does not materialise can inflate the damages alarmingly . |