Example sentences of "come to be [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high moral principle , to use his own phrase , of mid-Victorian muscular Christianity , may well have seemed to the agnosticism of early twentieth-century scientific certainty an insubstantial basis for the development of Co-operation ; and , as a derivative from the French , from the advocacy by Louis Blanc and Buchez of self-governing Producers ' Associations formed by workmen and operating through ‘ National Workshops ’ , the concept was not only at odds with but alien to that of the British Movement which had come to be dominated by the Consumer Movement . |
| 2 | The story of how after his death Bunyan and the Pilgrim 's Progress came to be assimilated by the Church of England is almost as fascinating as that of his life . |
| 3 | In this book she shows how in the years of the establishment of the Christian Church , holiness came to be defined by the exclusion of the female , and a concept of purity which had its roots in the Old Testament was used to establish the priesthood as a wholly male structure . |
| 4 | The difficulty for the historian is that evidence for how councillors were elected is often lacking , and one does not know how many freemen could participate in choosing them , nor when membership of councils came to be filled by the choice of the existing councillors . |
| 5 | It came to be replaced by the view that a ‘ new despotism ’ was arising from the growing practice of vesting legislative and judicial powers in the Executive . |
| 6 | This and a similar arrangement by Kenneth II for lands in Lothian came to be regarded by the English as an admission that Scottish rulers were not equals but vassals in relation not merely to a few specific regions but to the whole of Scotland — which had never been contemplated by the Scottish signatories . |
| 7 | The tentative explanation came to be accepted by the men that they were victims of what they called ‘ the Northern Ireland Office 's numbers game ’ . |
| 8 | The state 's bureaucracy came to be staffed by the monopoly capitalists and their friends so that the state could co-ordinate the interests of the monopolies . |
| 9 | After the downfall of the Black Douglases at Threave in 1455 , Bothwell reverted to the Crown and in time came to be held by the Red Douglases . |
| 10 | Also , the expanding production of agriculture , particularly of wool , came to be controlled by the same London merchants . |
| 11 | West Ham was an area adjacent to East London where formal politics during the 1920s came to be dominated by the Labour Party to an extent experienced in few other areas of the country . |
| 12 | Outside the Demontis farm a little dog shot out of a barrel and came to be petted by the Brigadier . |
| 13 | In both England and France the need to make armies mobile was perhaps one of the major developments of the period , and shows how important versatility was coming to be regarded by the leaders of the day . |
| 14 | The treasury at Winchester was the permanent repository ; this was coming to be controlled by the Exchequer , the audit department , to which the sheriffs and other officers came twice a year to deliver the royal taxes and to make an account of their stewardship . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Institutional shareholders prefer an employee trust to an option scheme , as it will not dilute their equity in the company ; this is because an option scheme established by a company usually provides for options to subscribe shares , whereas an employee trust can be empowered to grant options over shares already in issue and which come to be held by the trust , as where an employee leaves and sells his shares to the trustees . |
| 17 | Pavlov ( 1927 ) expressed the view that the OR evoked by a novel stimulus constituted an ‘ obstacle ’ to conditioning ; and indeed , if conditioning is seen as a process in which the OR comes to be replaced by the CR , it might be expected that pre-exposure to the CS would facilitate this process . |