Example sentences of "[noun sg] have come [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter confusion set in and , from scenes of events , groups of figures , etc. , presented on a very small scale , the term has come to mean elaborate pictures , much more ambitious than the historiations and sometimes extending to the whole of a large page . |
| 2 | Bureaucracy has come to have such enormous significance for government in communist states that some analysts claim that the whole political system warrants the epithet ‘ bureaucratic ’ . |
| 3 | A woman will say something like , ‘ Oh look , he 's got a cute butt ’ and some geek standing next to her , sensing that his chance has come to make serious waves in the world of sexual politics , will whine , ‘ You would n't like that if I said that about a girl . ’ |
| 4 | It is , however , suggested that where a new basis for constitutionality has come to enjoy universal acknowledgment or sufficiently widespread acquiescence , the judge 's obligation to uphold the law points in the direction of endorsing charge rather than blindly ignoring it . |
| 5 | It was not even ‘ love of life ’ — that is more like it , but the phrase has come to mean many things that could ( happily ) not be predicated of her . |
| 6 | As the state had come to intervene more and more in the field of welfare provision it fed the ethic of equality and broke down the constraining check of deference ( of poor people in their place ) , so itself contributing to a growing lobby for " more " and " better " public provision . |
| 7 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 8 | But , besides the fact that the details of his method can not be read into many of the advances made in the sciences , his promise of certainty has come to seem inappropriate . |
| 9 | This is slightly curious , because a ‘ law ’ in science had come to mean some relationship which had been derived from experiment . |
| 10 | Eliot 's Four Quartets , like Pound 's Cantos , alternate dizzyingly between the sceptical and the dogmatic , and by the 1950s that paradox had come to look insoluble . |
| 11 | Social perspectives on cognition have come to accept cultural differences not as deficits but as important variation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the same time the emergence of GCSE English has come to mean more than mere changes of emphasis at the upper end of secondary schools . |
| 14 | Registry users of the student management system have come to feel secure in their data processing and take the assistance of information technology very much for granted . |
| 15 | The time has come to kick fast food . |
| 16 | ‘ I think the time has come to call this assignment over , ’ she said quietly . |
| 17 | Perhaps also the time has come to abandon content free systems and move towards the development of a knowledge-based program , using grid method but specifically designed to enhance the perception and appreciation of art . |
| 18 | ‘ There was a time when I planned to live for ever , but the time has come to change those plans . ’ |
| 19 | Officials said he would have the same message for all — the time has come to revive direct Arab-Israeli negotiations . |
| 20 | Yes , the chicken and egg syndrome is interesting because and I agree it is a viscious circle , but in fact you do n't make new omelettes unless you do break some eggs , and I think the time has come to break some eggs and I think that 's what I 'm advocating is that it will come from the teacher because the teacher is the guiding light of what happens in the classroom , and if the teacher has it in the back of their mind there will be no science , then there will be no science . |
| 21 | Yes , the chicken and egg syndrome is interesting because and I agree it is a vicious circle , but in fact you do n't make new omelettes unless you do break some eggs , and I think the time has come to break some eggs and I think that 's what I 'm advocating is that it will come from the teacher because the teacher is the guiding light of what happens in the classroom , and if the teacher has it in the back of their mind there will be no science , then there will be no science . |
| 22 | When the doctor confirms that it is important to provide care , or when too much anxiety is felt in leaving an elderly person alone , the time has come to consider alternative options . |
| 23 | And I think the time has come to consider extra reward financially for your loyalty . |
| 24 | Until now , though , we have glossed over descriptions of shot sizes , and the time has come to make these clearer . |
| 25 | Now I realise , with growing apprehension , that my fertile years will soon be over and that the time has come to make another choice . |
| 26 | So much so that I think the time has come to discard those tests which have proved so elusive . |
| 27 | And I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church , and that is not going to go away . |
| 28 | I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church . |
| 29 | The problem is that just like the ‘ moral treatments ’ of the nineteenth century , normalization has come to mean different things to different people , and professionals who have espoused the concept of ‘ normalization ’ often proselytize their views with a religious fervour which , though often motivating to fellow staff , can be alienating to those who are unfamiliar with the concept . |
| 30 | The time had come to end this before it went any further . |