Example sentences of "[verb] come [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 2 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 3 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
| 4 | Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ . |
| 5 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 6 | In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's . |
| 7 | Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business . |
| 8 | Its own root is ‘ thought ’ , and from that it has come to mean the inner debate of a person who is reasoning with himself . |
| 9 | The life-is-a-party world of Xuxa has come to portray the official version of Brazilian reality , with its glossy blondes and creamy morenas — and very few blacks . |
| 10 | Thus , ‘ Congress has come to dominate the national politics of federalism , and its members have gained that dominance by crawling inside the details of federal grant programmes and examining the effects of the distribution of federal money ’ , instead of the states deciding it themselves . |
| 11 | It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it . |
| 12 | Over this period an influential school of thought called monetarism has developed around his ideas and has come to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy as the dominant academic influence over monetary policy . |
| 13 | The time may have come to urge a historic settlement , whereby people in Essex can hang each other to their hearts ' content so long as they do not interfere with traditional sporting practices in the rest of the country . |
| 14 | They will have come to understand the socio-cultural system from the inside through direct participation in the network of transactions which constitutes the daily life of those who are being studied . |
| 15 | By this time , the tigress must have come to know the particular scent , as well as stance , of her hunter and probably recognized him , even when dressed up as an Indian woman . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've come to see a young man from the place where I work , ’ she said , trying to sound firm and businesslike . |
| 17 | The code of military behaviour had come to permeate the whole world of knightly behaviour , not just the field of battle . |
| 18 | He added that holding the hostages had " given a great service to the cause of peace " but that the time had come to take a final decision on this " humanitarian issue " . |
| 19 | Its end was marked by the instability of the dollar and the end of US financial domination , and much of the chaos of this period was attributable to the fact that no other country had come to take a hegemonic role . |
| 20 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 21 | A review of this coverage supports the conclusion that the refusal of tenure to MacCabe was related to a sense among Cambridge traditionalists that the time had come to mount a strong resistance to further incursions by the tendency MacCabe was thought to support . |
| 22 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 23 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |
| 24 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 25 | The disagreement about where they were to live had come to seem the only obstacle . |
| 26 | It is hardly surprising given the enhanced status , power and influence which the nineteenth century had brought , that Nonconformists had come to identify the Christian religion with the values and secular goals of their times , the most important of which was an acceptance of the inevitability of progress through change . |
| 27 | Grunte had run into him on the forecourt of one of his garages where he had come to buy a second-hand Sierra . |
| 28 | She had touched on the deadness in himself and this spasm of melancholy had come to torment the impacted sin of a lifetime . |
| 29 | The baby inside the womb , therefore , had come to associate a particular signature tune with a peaceful and relaxed time , and had continued this association even after birth . |
| 30 | By the early 1980s these had come to occupy a central position in the commercial life of Hong Kong , with businesses in widely dispersed fields , financed on a great scale by advances from institutional investors . |