Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | While Munro baggers have been marking the centenary of Sir Hugh 's tables , a ghost has come to trouble the celebrations — the hovering spectre of Foinavon . |
| 2 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 3 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 4 | You know something 's going on , we have a little surprise set up for you , and I think the time has come to let the cat out of the bag . |
| 5 | He watches a man arrive who , we discover , has come to take the cure at the local sanatorium . |
| 6 | Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained . |
| 7 | Callinicos ' defence of classical Marxism , of historical materialism , is in the first instance deployed against a postmodernism which has come to proclaim the death of the grand narrative of emancipation and the need for a new form of politics not constructed along the lines of the traditional left . |
| 8 | It 's funny , every time we 've sat at our seats that bloke has come to ask the chap next to me |
| 9 | Mr. Lester submitted that the time has come to relax the rule to the extent which I have mentioned . |
| 10 | Having now worked in both sides of the oil business , Morgan says that he has come to appreciate the importance of high quality cooperation , whether it 's at Grangemouth Refinery or in transporting and marketing oil in the US . |
| 11 | Perhaps now that the forests and other wilderness areas have nearly vanished , these carnivorous animals burn brighter than ever in our consciousness — solitary beacons of wild nature whose continued survival has come to represent the survival of wilderness itself . |
| 12 | As a result society at large has come to accept the devaluation of the economic role of ‘ older people ’ as defined by these ages . |
| 13 | Greenpeace has come to epitomise the struggle for a safer future , not just for humankind , but for the planet as a whole . |
| 14 | Prompted by the rapid development of medical technology over the past decade or so , the medical community has come to reject the notion that death is associated exclusively with breathing and heartbeat , the ‘ vital functions ’ . |
| 15 | Such interjections are clearly ironic as they are likely to be those of the ‘ trained ’ nouveau roman reader who has come to regard the decentring of the author as paradigmatic of contemporary experimental fiction . |
| 16 | First , to show that the means-end rationality which has come to dominate the thought of modern man as the form of rationality is simply one kind of rationality . |
| 17 | Spending resources before financial deadlines has come to dominate the administration of Partnerships and Programme Authorities , instead of wider strategic issues . |
| 18 | Business has come to recognize the need to foster entrepreneurship ; failure to do so may result in a kind of in-house recession . ’ |
| 19 | More than any other landmark , the Brandenburg Gate , erected in 1794 as a triumphal arch , has come to symbolise the division between East and West . |
| 20 | Eternity , union , love , the gold wedding ring has come to symbolise the devotion of a groom to his bride , a bride to her groom and reflects perfectly the harmony between the couple . |
| 21 | ‘ The time has come to pay the strangers back in kind . |
| 22 | Law : Crucial battle for the high moral ground : As Parliament prepares to debate embryo research , Simon Lee says the time has come to approach the issues more responsibly |
| 23 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
| 24 | ‘ This killing is totally unnecessary and unacceptably cruel and the time has come to end the killing . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed , the Education & Training Directorate believes that the time has come to review the continuation of the policy of requiring all candidates to take papers in the same subjects . |
| 26 | He conquered the still-surviving British kingdom of Elmet ( HB ch. 63 ) and extended over the men of Lindsey ( among whom the missionary Paulinus baptized at Lincoln and Littleborough ( HE II , 16 ) ) , a lordship which must soon have come to embrace the Mercians north of the Trent and , no doubt by slower degrees , those south of it . |
| 27 | She had initially thought he might have come to reclaim the Madam 's brothel — in which case he was going to have a mysterious and fatal accident . |
| 28 | It is clear that this " mood " could only have come to dominate the study of English by deflecting the major challenges to its status as a " real discipline " . |
| 29 | Sorry to interrupt , I 've come to collect the packet . |
| 30 | They think you 're a field of rape , they 've come to suck the goodness out of you . ’ |