Example sentences of "come [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |
| 2 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 3 | Serious UFO researchers have come to recognise that these stories are essentially subjective . |
| 4 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
| 5 | I think I 've come to realise that Western dress is shallow . |
| 6 | I feel myself shudder ; I have come to learn that such touchings normally precede a trip to the Dark . |
| 7 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 8 | Ultimately , he came to realize that this persecution complex existed only in his own mind , and that his unpopularity in Barbados arose from his walking out on them . |
| 9 | With the exception of some Christian pacifists and a handful of far-left revolutionaries , no part of the peace movement , before 1939 , came to accept that another war was unavoidable . |
| 10 | Sitting there in the Cathedral Close in the weak spring sunlight , trying to grasp the enormity of the events we had lived through , we gradually came to accept that these things were now in the past , and the war was really over . |
| 11 | It was betrayal , too , when in the 1960s and 1970s many people like me who thought of themselves as ‘ progressive ’ came to believe that mental illness did not exist . |
| 12 | Indeed , social morality leaders came to believe that earlier marriages would discourage resort to prostitution . |
| 13 | Instead , a new grouping of critics , working under the influence of theorists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault , came to realise that literary texts did not mark out expression which could somehow break free of the culture which produced them . |
| 14 | She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail . |
| 15 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 16 | Gradually , however , governments came to feel that second-best considerations could not be ignored . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Dr Dunstaple was gradually coming to realize that other things were missing . |
| 18 | Many students of social behaviour are coming to agree that both methods must be employed together . |
| 19 | In this way the fieldworker will come to see that this mesh of kinship behaviour is a manifestation of the social structure , a visible expression of who controls what . |
| 20 | If that position were to occur agents would be aware that the government would be tempted to create higher inflation to achieve iso-vote line V 1 ; they would come to expect that higher inflation and hence the relevant Phillips curve would not be the one labelled . |
| 21 | First let her fear build up : let her come to believe that this prize , this catch of the season , would leave her not only as if she had never met him but somehow spoiled . |
| 22 | The student may come to appreciate that each concept , or theory or professional practice is set within a particular framework of thought or action . |
| 23 | Pupils should come to appreciate that all history books are interpretations of the past , that interpretations can vary , and that the best are those strongly rooted in evidence . |
| 24 | Indeed , pupils should come to realise that biased sources are often very valuable to the historian in revealing the attitudes and values of people in the past . |
| 25 | But Casaubon is not without insight in his idea that the committed experimental philosopher may come to think that all areas of human concern and experience are legitimate grist to his mill . |
| 26 | This pessimism may have some truth given the present management approach within our schools but it is suggested here that if that managerial frame of reference was itself to be radically re-oriented , then teachers ' perceptions of their own professionality would also be powerfully affected and they may indeed come to feel that effective classroom activity was positively related to their performance in the wider school context . |
| 27 | We come to believe that good writing shows how clever we are . |
| 28 | Staff in a contemporary prison service or department of corrections come to believe that further training , or advanced training , or some other form of in-service training , is necessary if they are to become more ‘ professional ’ . |
| 29 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
| 30 | These in turn become massively overdetermined , regenerative and self-justifying , creating an institutional mind which , although allegedly acting on behalf of society and the majority population , comes to regard that same group as outsiders and potential antagonists who are never to be accorded easy access to the processes of the organization . |