Example sentences of "come to the fore " in BNC.

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1 Moderation and reasonableness began to come to the fore .
2 Allow your natural rhythm to come to the fore .
3 This is where the innate artist in you gets the chance to come to the fore .
4 Has the professional body exerted too dominant , and too narrow an influence ? ) ; the learning process ( Is there an undue balance towards the student having to assimilate and memorize material , rather than engaging in active reflection and exploration ? ) ; and the examining process ( Will it allow the student to demonstrate his or her higher-order abilities ? ) are often more likely to come to the fore , when staff from outside the immediate discipline are sharing in the course review process .
5 The reader will probably reply that the question is quite otiose because it is obvious that , as Freud himself pointed out , the oral region is of first significance in a new-born baby 's life , the anal zone is significant later , especially with the coming of toilet-training , and the phallic period is last merely because it is only later that increasing awareness of the genitals and the ability to manipulate them and perceive the persons of the parents causes Oedipal phenomena ( which are synonymous with the phallic period ) to come to the fore .
6 In the twentieth century the battles have been over quite different issues and in the courts the hitherto ancillary matters of child custody and maintenance have come to the fore .
7 ‘ Look how that 's come to the fore , ’ remarked a Bristol listener , ‘ we never used to know anything about it and now there 's many would n't miss it . ’
8 Since the ability to draw is not seen as particularly important , this state of affairs has not come to the fore .
9 Howell has come to the fore this season , being instrumental in getting Civil Service into third place in the league behind Kelburne and Torbrex Wanderers with his impressive defensive record .
10 The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success .
11 The politics of local government have come to the fore just as the powers of local government have declined .
12 It 's possible that the man who stands on the winner 's podium on the Champs Elysées on the afternoon of Sunday 26 July will have come to the fore in the last two days .
13 Several lines of evidence for insect intelligence have come to the fore , but a little careful thinking , observation , and experimentation indicate that most of these criteria are untrustworthy .
14 Botulism is another fatal disease which has come to the fore in recent years .
15 His competitive streak has always come to the fore in head-to-head situations , such as the World Match Play and the Ryder Cup .
16 Demands to bring forward the age of retirement come to the fore ; for older people to continue working is seen to be selfish , depriving younger people of opportunity .
17 Yet , increasingly , arguments about the effects of privatisation on the state 's finances , rather than discussion about the appropriate role of the state , have come to the fore as the revenue gained from asset sales has become sizeable .
18 Mention a low cost tank and all the issues of new or salvaged glass , glass thickness , and quality of build come to the fore .
19 And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh .
20 Being black has always been in my subconscious , but I 've tried never to let this come to the fore .
21 Janine 's white face made Sarah 's natural good nature come to the fore .
22 The problem , which has long troubled white consciences , has come to the fore now because of a decision by the High Court that in one case aborigines have a legal claim to lands where they hunted before the white man came .
23 The ideal of ‘ listening to the text ’ and allowing different possible ‘ readings ’ has come to the fore , helped by a new appreciation of Jewish exegesis , often through joint study with Jews ( as was recommended in Nostra Aetate 4 ) , and by refreshing contributions from students of other literatures .
24 In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government .
25 Only in Namibia , did treaty reasoning come to the fore , and that was in the context of termination of the Mandate by the General Assembly for material breach , when it was desired to establish a new legal regime over the territory .
26 Passive smoking has come to the fore .
27 In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) .
28 In the process we have observed , two new urban phenomena have come to the fore : the outer city and the inner city , both urban environments with distinct challenges for planned regulation .
29 Sarah 's old jealousy had come to the fore — she wanted Isaac to inherit all of Abraham 's wealth and his elder son , Ishmael , to have none .
30 [ … ] It is perhaps no coincidence that only when one is prepared to recognize that the firm is based on authority do issues of power come to the fore in the theory of the firm .
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