Example sentences of "come to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those most skilled in carrying out such activities and getting away with them come to be recognized within the group as hooligans . |
| 2 | Why then , it will be asked , do ‘ visible extension and figures come to be called the same name with tangible extension and figures , if they are not of the same kind with them ’ ? |
| 3 | Second , public bureaus come to be organized in a monopolistic and centralized fashion to match the organization of monopoly capital . |
| 4 | For Locke , then , ‘ general words signify … a sort of thing ’ ; and they do this by being a sign of an abstract idea or nominal essence in the mind , ‘ to which idea , as things existing are found to agree , so they come to be ranked under that name ; or … be of that sort ’ . |
| 5 | Furthermore , to pursue this metaphor , having selected a particular spiritual decor and furnishings , those who live in it come to be influenced by its stylistic and symbolic properties as well as its more obvious functional or utilitarian appropriateness . |
| 6 | The idea that this Chamber is a place to which we all come to be influenced by the ebb and flow of debate and the oratory of Members is totally ridiculous . |
| 7 | Moreover , it is through such means that the discretionary powers and prerogatives of the copper on the beat come to be exercised . |
| 8 | Its picture of law as a matter of convention — as a game with holes between the rules — gives a most distorted account of how settled practices come to be questioned and changed . |
| 9 | A possible way of arguing against a causal theory of justification would be to claim that we have no guarantee that there is only one way in which beliefs come to be justified , and in particular no real reason for supposing that any acceptable way must somehow be causal , so that all justified beliefs that p must be caused by relevant facts . |
| 10 | There is a terrifying slippery slope in the process , by which old people come to be regarded as less than fully human and are therefore not treated as persons deserving equal respect . |
| 11 | The danger with these time-removed antecedents is that they come to be regarded as irremediable causes ( which they are ) . |
| 12 | Thus a school 's organisational structure , the role of its head , and the values and attitudes of its teachers come to be regarded as crucial to the survival of any curriculum project . |
| 13 | The SRs and Mensheviks have received more detailed treatment , and come to be regarded less as cynical saboteurs and traitors than as misguided champions of the petty bourgeoisie . |
| 14 | I suggest that is not likely to happen however if the police authorities come to be regarded as accountable to Whitehall , rather than the Town Hall . |
| 15 | Uneven development is taken here as a key concept , both in explaining why there are local state institutions to begin with , and in understanding how local politics come to be differentiated from place to place . |
| 16 | We have used the concept to mean the processes whereby specific social groups , in our case elderly people , come to be defined and categorized , and have characteristics attributed to them , which then become normative . |
| 17 | Phenomenologists do not try to establish what causes crime ; instead they try to discover how certain events come to be defined as crimes and certain people defined as criminal . |
| 18 | In addition to this descriptive overview , issues which will also be discussed include : the relationship between ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ in crime prevention ; how and why activities come to be defined as crime prevention activities ; changes in the role of crime prevention officers and the increasing importance ( in theory , at least ) of crime prevention in the work of all police officers ; liaison with non-police bodies including crime prevention panels , neighbourhood watch schemes , schools etc. , and finally , the use of new technology in the prevention of crime . |
| 19 | This involves consideration of how crowds come to be formed , the way a crowd communicates within itself and to others outside , the process by which the fact and nature of a crowd 's existence is conveyed to other members of the community . |
| 20 | Paradoxically , however , our enthusiasm in turning to these processes lies more in examining how questions of identity and moral careers come to be formed rather than in continuing to equate ‘ urban ’ with ‘ consumption ’ or ‘ social reproduction ’ . |
| 21 | Men die to win democracy for their countries , which after a while is taken grudgingly ; and its practitioners come to be seen as less skilled , worthy and entertaining than the aristocrats of sport . |
| 22 | Once new fields are delineated they come to be seen as natural , their boundaries appear to derive from logic , and a world in which they had no place becomes unimaginable . |
| 23 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 24 | Amongst other things , the sociologist is interested in how and why some things come to be seen as social problems . |
| 25 | In contrast , the sociological model outlined above , is also interested in why certain forms of behaviour come to be seen as abuse of children , and how certain individuals come to be labelled as child abusers . |
| 26 | Only with the passage of time did the two channels come to be seen widely as part of a single public service system . |
| 27 | The estates then come to be seen as ‘ ghetto ’ , ‘ sink ’ or ‘ residual ’ estates , where no one wants to live , where the repairs are not done , and only people who have no chance of being offered anywhere better are forced to live . |
| 28 | Things which were previously seen as obviously true come to be seen as obviously false . |
| 29 | They come to be seen as existing in their own right ; so that , even when they have ceased to serve their original social purpose and have become an impediment to the progress of society , men continue to defer to them . |
| 30 | When anomalies come to be seen as posing serious problems for a paradigm , a period of ‘ pronounced professional insecurity ’ sets in . |