Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] the [noun] have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this tiny house had flowed some at least of the immortal words that the world had come to know as The Pickwick Papers . |
| 2 | All four of the properties described above make it less likely that central banks would ever have to defend parities that the markets had come to regard as indefensible . |
| 3 | A review of this coverage supports the conclusion that the refusal of tenure to MacCabe was related to a sense among Cambridge traditionalists that the time had come to mount a strong resistance to further incursions by the tendency MacCabe was thought to support . |
| 4 | A customer returns a pair of shoes that the heel has come off . |
| 5 | The man 's foot had broken a few spokes and the chain had come off , but there was no other damage . |
| 6 | Moreover , there is nothing in the 152-page report to satisfy the Opposition , industry or the few remaining Tory rebels that the Government has come out of the review with a national energy policy . |
| 7 | Rather these books exhibit concrete problem-solutions that the profession has come to accept as paradigms , and they then ask the student , either with a pencil and paper , or in the laboratory , to solve for himself problems very closely related both in method and substance to those which the text or accompanying lecture has led him through . |
| 8 | This practice supports T. S. Kuhn 's ( 1963 ) argument that science textbooks ‘ do not describe the sorts of problems that the professional may be asked to solve and the variety of techniques available for their solution ’ but rather they ‘ exhibit concrete problem-solutions that the profession has come to accept as paradigms ’ which the student is expected to solve for himself ( or herself ) in the laboratory . |
| 9 | At that time there were two or three hundred Viscounts flying in various parts of the world , and to have grounded all Viscounts because the wings had come off in flight in this accident would have contributed nothing to air safety . |
| 10 | Having made significant political concessions to the pro-Allied monarchist and military " families " in the first half of the year , while repeatedly stalling on entry to the war on the side of the Axis , from June to December 1941 he showed open and sometimes vehement support for the Axis , ignoring the criticism of his senior generals and their suggestions that the time had come to consider restoring the monarchy . |
| 11 | What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy . |
| 12 | If either the elections or the crisis had come in 1947 , then the contradiction probably would not have mattered . |
| 13 | The King 's Private Secretary , Lord Stamfordham , wrote to MacDonald to say that the King was ‘ profoundly impressed with Sir Arthur Balfour 's letter to you — his review of the critical condition of affairs will , in His Majesty 's opinion , bring home to his Ministers that the time has come when even emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity which , as Sir Arthur Balfour states , is not altogether incompatible with that of the Great War . |
| 14 | On the other hand British claims that the Americans had come to recognize the folly of their conduct in the Suez crisis depend as usual upon a simplistic interpretation of American policy from 1951 , and ignore the fact that in 1958 the intruding powers were able to work with — not against — the grain of local politics . |
| 15 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |
| 16 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |