Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we are dealing with the literature on voting behaviour , we are dealing with a literature that has come to display turbulence in the face of electoral behaviour that has become increasingly volatile and unpredictable . |
| 2 | In the epistle to the Hebrews ( by an unknown Christian of learning and sophistication ) there is equal emphasis both upon the spontaneity and fullness of Jesus ' humanity and upon the faith that in him the eternal Son of the Father has come to unite believers to himself ; he is the pioneer of our salvation , our representative bringing to the Father and to the heavenly company those who put their trust in him . |
| 3 | James Spader has come to prefer impotence to sexual deception . |
| 4 | Now that the Regional Geophysics Group is part of TMOS , the opportunity has come to redesign parts of the Geophysics Core programme to integrate it more effectively with other activities . |
| 5 | In Kahlo 's work there is a powerful mix of these discourses , yet her role as an archetypal woman painter has come to dominate responses to her work . |
| 6 | He has come to discuss things with me on many occasions and I am always asking him to come and do just one concert with the orchestra . |
| 7 | He has come to expect surprises from Robertson . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've come to take control of this ship , Mr Hands , ’ I said , ‘ so please remember I 'm your captain . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The reason why we wish to purchase the property is that we obviously are n't happy to have a business concern operating in the midst of a residential area — which is why I 've come to open negotiations by making you an offer . ’ |
| 10 | I 've come to propose marriage to you . ’ |
| 11 | Sabraxis had come to visit Lucien in his room as soon as he was well enough to converse . |
| 12 | The time had come to take matters in hand . |
| 13 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 14 | By the 1930s not only had admission to a profession become the goal of every middle-class family in the land , but they had come to seem bulwarks of society . |
| 15 | " Leftism " suggests opposition to existing policies or institutions , and within the labour movement it had come to mean dedication to rapid socialization of the economy whether through parliamentary or revolutionary methods ( see below , chapters 12 , 13 , and 15 ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , rightfully or not , Zambia had come to mean trouble to Leila . |
| 17 | Self knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weaknesses and shortcomings and nothing more . ’ |
| 18 | It is unclear how far this happened locally , although the family of Godwine , Earl of Wessex , had come to dominate Sussex by the eleventh century . |
| 19 | But there were others who had traded with the Carolingian West ( coins of Louis the Pious and other Frankish objects have been found at Birka ) , who had come to know Christianity from their trading connections , and who formed the bedrock of Anskar 's support . |
| 20 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 21 | The snipers , who fired directly on us despite the presence of an army officer , appeared determined to drive out a team which had come to investigate rumours of a massacre of Muslim women and children by Serbs . |
| 22 | Drifting offshore with the wind and tide is a splendid way to get a close look at sea-birds , because they have come to accept fishing-boats as a source of food rather than a potential danger . |
| 23 | The passionate obsession with her husband Diego Rivera , her flamboyant appearance , but most of all her physical and emotional pain have come to dominate responses to her work . |
| 24 | In Chapter 1 we saw how institutional investors have come to dominate shareholding in the International Stock Exchange . |
| 25 | Because they 're concerned about America 's oil dependence , senior government officials have come to rub shoulders with the advocates of conservation and alternative power sources . |
| 26 | Erm , there 's a local policeman , er , in the area around our church , he 's come to speak finish in a little while . |