Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world .
2 I have no idea why it has come to bear that name .
3 And they had come to feel that pulse .
4 She had come to recognize that silence , to smell it , almost .
5 I had come to dread that word — not that I was n't all in favour of efficiency generally but I did feel that there were times when other criteria applied .
6 Although some Labour politicians clung to the belief that peace could be maintained , most had come to accept that war was inevitable by 1936 , confirmed in their opinion by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War .
7 Some Labour politicians continued to cling to their previous peace strategies but by the late 1930s the majority had come to accept that war was inevitable — a view confirmed by the events in Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland which preceded the outbreak of the European war .
8 His team , said Rowell , had come to accept that rucking and raking were part of New Zealand rugby .
9 Even the Americans have come to agree that Congress can , despite the First Amendment , make laws stopping people from shouting " fire " in crowded theatres .
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