Example sentences of "[noun pl] have come [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bureaucratization of the party was first made a target of criticism by Trotsky , who drew attention to the way that , under Stalin , the party functionaries rather than its representative elements had come to control the party and how these functionaries had become indistinguishable in their political interests from the functionaries of the state apparatus . |
| 2 | During the last two decades more and more bankers have come to regard the bill of lading as just another letter of credit document . |
| 3 | On the other hand British claims that the Americans had come to recognize the folly of their conduct in the Suez crisis depend as usual upon a simplistic interpretation of American policy from 1951 , and ignore the fact that in 1958 the intruding powers were able to work with — not against — the grain of local politics . |
| 4 | In recent years , Americans have come to admire the Japanese and German ways of dealing with this . |
| 5 | Spending resources before financial deadlines has come to dominate the administration of Partnerships and Programme Authorities , instead of wider strategic issues . |
| 6 | Yet in Pomerania the Poles and most of the native Germans had come to accept the intermingling as perfectly natural and of no special significance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of the issues that called for more profound thought than usual was the direction United Biscuits should take after its products had come to command the lion 's share of the market and could n't be expected to squeeze out many more sales . |
| 9 | Restrictions on footballers in Eastern Europe playing abroad have gradually been eased as Poles , Soviets and others have come to regard the export of players as a useful means of acquiring hard currency . |
| 10 | Other institutions have come to challenge the church 's traditional dominance of the value system . |
| 11 | Neither Persinger nor Brady is a ufologist , but certain UFO researchers have come to recognise the importance of their work and set about verifying it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whilst the Church of England has become less rigid in its liturgy , some Free Churches have come to recognise the value of formal worship patterns . |