Example sentences of "has come [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 2 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 3 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
| 4 | Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ . |
| 5 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 6 | In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's . |
| 7 | She has come to help a diocesan Franciscan order here . |
| 8 | Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business . |
| 9 | Its own root is ‘ thought ’ , and from that it has come to mean the inner debate of a person who is reasoning with himself . |
| 10 | ( ii ) Teachers should explain how Standard English has come to have a wide social and geographical currency and to be the form of English most frequently used on formal , public occasions and in writing . |
| 11 | The life-is-a-party world of Xuxa has come to portray the official version of Brazilian reality , with its glossy blondes and creamy morenas — and very few blacks . |
| 12 | Thus , ‘ Congress has come to dominate the national politics of federalism , and its members have gained that dominance by crawling inside the details of federal grant programmes and examining the effects of the distribution of federal money ’ , instead of the states deciding it themselves . |
| 13 | If one man has come to symbolise the hard , inner edge that has driven England to such success it is Winterbottom . |
| 14 | It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it . |
| 15 | Over this period an influential school of thought called monetarism has developed around his ideas and has come to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy as the dominant academic influence over monetary policy . |