Example sentences of "came [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By demonstrating why workers , soldiers and a minority of peasants came to support the Bolshevik party in 1917 they bring to light the limitations of the party 's popular mandate , and the speed with which that mandate was forfeited . |
| 2 | Each god 's burden came to signify the particular omen of the division of time in question . |
| 3 | Christ himself came preaching the Good News of the Kingdom , describing its nature and calling for a response . |
| 4 | But Europeans increasingly during the I 1980s came to see the global electronics market as offering key advantages to the United States and Japan . |
| 5 | The Doctor who came to see the poor Doc ( a psychoanalyst and neurological specialist ) said that every neurotic case went back to the childish fear of the father . |
| 6 | He chose to ignore the ultimate horror of the looted tomb and inscribed his lines as if all was well : " Aa-Kheper-Re-senb came to see the beautiful temple of King Seneferu . |
| 7 | In time , this economic function may have grown strong enough to draw yet more people to it , so that it came to overshadow the original cause for the settlement 's foundation . |
| 8 | The two sequences testify to the importance which a monastic community attached to its corporate ideal , and the steps by which a final and fatal resort to forgery came to appear the only path to a just solution . |
| 9 | This conception , however , dissolved in his mind as , towards the end of his life , he came to accept the prevalent belief in the everyday occurrence of miracles . |
| 10 | The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning . |
| 11 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |
| 12 | Both continued to develop ; but it was the commemoration of the martyrs that came to swamp the Christian calendar during the fourth century , filling the interstices left in it . |
| 13 | Many famous people came to view the grandiose exhibition : the Prince of Wales judged it to be ‘ an ornament to the nation ’ , as indeed it was to become . |
| 14 | But she says , ‘ You came to win the Open Championship , Arnold . |
| 15 | Charles Keating Jr , the multi-millionaire whose speculative activities and subsequent financial collapse came to epitomize the massive failure of the savings and loan industry , was convicted on 17 counts of securities fraud by a California Superior Court on Dec. 4 . |
| 16 | When the children of Israel were camped in Moab near Jericho , many of them came to worship the local god , Bael-Poor , and there was some mixing with the Moabites . |
| 17 | So came to do the other side , went to the same routine the nipple snapped off . |
| 18 | ‘ Empleomani/1a ’ or the ‘ rage for office ’ as Dyson translates it ( 1980 : 61 ) , together with clientelistic politics based on ‘ enchufe ’ or personal contacts , came to characterize the public administration . |
| 19 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 20 | And from somewhere came drifting the lazy smell of woodsmoke . |
| 21 | But when he and Slater came to devise the dramatic structure of the libretto , something different resulted . |
| 22 | . It is certainly true that as men came to understand the natural world and thus to control it , they began to banish God from it . |
| 23 | Thus Bloomsbury came to criticize the dominant order over a wide range : for its militarism ; for its repressive colonialism ; for its unmanaged capitalism ; for its sexual inequalities ; for its rigidities of manners ; for its hypocrisies ; for its indifference to the arts . |
| 24 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
| 25 | It was one important consideration in Bernstein 's ‘ revision ’ of Marxist theory , and the problem was later analysed more fully by the Austro-Marxist thinkers , who came to recognize the political significance of the growing complexity of the class structure , and in particular the influence of what Karl Renner called the ‘ service class ’ . |
| 26 | We came to recognize the furtive knocking of these late callers , and tried to alleviate their disappointment by inviting them in for tea and sympathy . |
| 27 | It was not long after the unearthing of the Phillips curve that economists and , later , policy makers came to grasp the full force of what they thought to be its implications for the conduct of demand management by the monetary and fiscal authorities . |
| 28 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 29 | He came to dislike the repressive Calvinism of the Free Church . |
| 30 | ‘ I came to hate the Tech-Green philosophy and did n't want to live out an expanded life up there somewhere , looking down on the unfortunates left on Earth . |