Example sentences of "come [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the century since we have come to understand better the structure of natural language , and have made some conceptual progress in the philosophy of language . |
| 2 | He has only come to appreciate properly the importance of loving discipline and the need for obedience since he and Maggie have had children themselves . |
| 3 | Writers in this tradition emphasize that there has been an historical change in the cultural and social meaning of the term ‘ family ’ over time , so that it has come to mean essentially the unit based on marriage and parenthood , with a secondary role only accorded to other kin relationships . |
| 4 | We came to see how the prison is run . |
| 5 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 6 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 7 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 8 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 9 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |
| 10 | The main point here is that not only did the Labour leaders reject the left 's version of the social contract with its new emphasis on a radical industrial policy , but also they increasingly came to question even the Crosland/Fabian/ ‘ Keynesian ’ version of socialism , so that their politics in the latter half of the 1970s became more and more of a mere holding operation — mere ‘ government ’ lacking any social purpose with a broad popular appeal . |
| 11 | This tendency , as Professor Joslin pointed out , accelerated once the landed classes came to appreciate both the security and the convenience of lodging a substantial part of their incomes with London banks . |
| 12 | Sometimes even in fights , throwing stones and other things against the security forces who came to break up the picket lines or arrest the trade union leaders . |
| 13 | Karloff recalled the chaos that was going on around him : ‘ When we started filming , the removal men came to take away the sets . |
| 14 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 15 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 16 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |
| 17 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 19 | The Italian nobility from the lands about the towns came to dominate both the trade and the government of the cities ; but there was space too — not always well recorded — for the new rich . |
| 20 | In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind . |
| 21 | So she 's phoned , and I says , ask them if they 're coming to board up the windows which were boarded when she went in ? |
| 22 | They 're from one of the country Women 's Institutes , and they 're coming to check out the suitability of the bush walk for a much larger party — most of them elderly . |
| 23 | By the 1840s , as many acute observers like John Stuart Mill were noting , bourgeois opinion was coming to dominate even the actions of the upper classes . |
| 24 | May we come to know again the trust and faith of little children . |
| 25 | When came to dig out the foundations and like the buildings round the tanks . |
| 26 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |
| 27 | Before starting to write , read through the whole of the examination paper and jot down in the margin the names of plaintiffs ( or criminal defendants ) in any relevant cases you remember , the dates of statutes and any other details that are likely to elude you when you come to write out the question . |
| 28 | We could , in principle , come to understand how the brain works by correlating neural differences with differences in the behaviour of species . |
| 29 | Add the chance to accelerate and brake Britain 's most famous locomotive , Pacific ‘ A3 ’ No. 4472 Flying Scotsman , on almost a mile of running line , and you soon come to realise why the Birmingham Railway Museum 's fortunes have been transformed since they granted their unique ‘ School for Steam ’ the right of way . |
| 30 | This way , when you come to cut up the cake every child gets a piece with his or her name on it . |