Example sentences of "[noun sg] has come [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If one man has come to symbolise the hard , inner edge that has driven England to such success it is Winterbottom . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 6 | Last week Lord Skelmersdale told the Lords that ‘ the government 's decision is that the time has come to implement the 1975 Act … . it is the large number of reservoirs for which no one appears to take responsibility which gives rise to the greatest concern , he added . |
| 7 | The time has come to bring the two modules together in the big program called EVOLUTION . |