Example sentences of "have [adv] come to " in BNC.

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1 It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived .
2 Even the Liberal party has eventually come to that conclusion — even the Albanian Government have come to that conclusion .
3 ‘ The forest plantation is quite young and the ditch was ploughed in 1987 , so the body has obviously come to be there after that . ’
4 This takes us into an area of discussion — what has broadly come to be known as ‘ the environment ’ — which will be dealt with in the following chapter .
5 A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million .
6 ‘ He has finally come to terms with being a United player . ’
7 The answer seems to lie in facing up to the fact that one particular cycle or era has finally come to a close and therefore both personally and professionally it would be wiser to channel your energies into something new .
8 After Danny de Vito showed his skills as a director in Wars of the Roses he used his leverage with the money-men to bankroll a long-cherished project which has finally come to the screen as Hoffa .
9 Dominic Dromgoole , of the excellent Bush Theatre ; Julia Bardsley , co-director of the Leicester Haymarket , and Phyllida Lloyd , whose superb production of The Virtuoso at Stratford has just come to the Barbican , are just a few of the other names I could have included .
10 The bouncy Miss Routledge , whose run in Bennett 's Talking Heads has just come to a close , explained : ‘ Alan just selects someone , writes the piece and posts it through the letterbox .
11 It has just come to me .
12 As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo .
13 In a population that has already come to be dominated by Always Defect , no other strategy does better .
14 However , a call to the Institute 's members ' registrar will confirm whether a firm of a similar name exists , or whether it is a case of ‘ misrepresentation ’ that has already come to the Institute 's attention .
15 By myth is meant here what has generally come to be accepted within sociology and social anthropology since the work of Levi-Strauss : an account of the origins of a society or of particular crucial events in its life , which unite the cosmos to the social structure by actively shaping everyday life perceptions .
16 So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him .
17 Not one piece of evidence has ever come to light to suggest that red kites attack live sheep or lambs .
18 While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City .
19 It has gradually come to be accepted that there are no clear lines dividing normal and abnormal behaviour , only several continua on which people might be placed that shade very gradually from the recognizably normal to the clearly disturbed .
20 His competitive streak has always come to the fore in head-to-head situations , such as the World Match Play and the Ryder Cup .
21 So far , however , the policy has still to come to anything .
22 In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's .
23 Even after your job has clearly come to an end , you need to beware of breaking obligations that remain legally binding upon you , such as the duty not to disclose trade secrets .
24 The age of those mighty , entrepreneurial artistic directors has probably come to an end .
25 West Germany : ‘ the nuclear construction programme of the German utilities has practically come to an end for the time being . ’
26 Gervase Jackson-Stops has also come to the aid of Stowe , with An English Arcadia 1600 – 1990 , an exhibition of designs and watercolours of gardens in the care of the National Trust which opens in the USA next year .
27 South African rugby has really come to this : a game for 90 players from the Transvaal , Northern Transvaal , Western Province , Eastern Province , Orange Free State and Natal who get wonderfully reimbursed for the expense of now playing 23 or more first-class fixtures in a season against one another while the rest hardly get a look in .
28 It began very early in September and has really come to an end today with the last of the leaves falling overnight and the first serious snow on the mountains .
29 To this must be added the 157,000 temporary houses ( the provision of temporary houses has now come to an end ) , the repair of war-damaged property , and the use of huts and service camps .
30 These chemicals are , by general definition , detergents although the term has now come to be restricted to a group of synthetic chemicals which have very specific effects the result of which is that dirt is taken into suspension in a stable form that allows it to be rinsed away .
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