Example sentences of "[noun pl] have come [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
2 | Through its support the white upper middle and upper classes have come to dominate all arts and culture . |
3 | Faced with this threat from building societies to their share in the savings market , banks have come to attach greater significance to the personal sector and to its importance as a source of profits . |
4 | Ramsay MacDonald , putting the matter rather bluntly , noted that trade unionists had come to acknowledge that , ‘ Labour could solve mining and similar difficulties through the ballot box . ’ |
5 | Two ongoing debates have come to assume some prominence in recent years . |
6 | Even the Americans have come to agree that Congress can , despite the First Amendment , make laws stopping people from shouting " fire " in crowded theatres . |
7 | It is precisely through the evolution of conceptualising capacities ( and , in particular , of language enabling complex social interactions ) that human beings have come to dominate other species . |
8 | Their faces have come to represent little more than voluble wealth . |
9 | His explanation is not , as is often supposed , the fact that in Britain multi-employer agreements failed to determine actual earnings levels in the workplace , or that employers have come to prefer independent negotiations . |
10 | In the years since the First World War , trucks had come to transport 100 million tons of farm produce per annum directly to the cities . |
11 | This quality weighting , missing in the previous calculation , can precisely be computed by using a technique inspired by what econometricians have come to call hedonic regression . |