Example sentences of "have come [to-vb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , it has come to seem as if the victims are to blame . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 4 | Equity had come to stay as part of the law of the land . |
| 5 | But the Secretary had come to stay as the hub of the administrative process . |
| 6 | The new directly assessed tax had come to stay as the main supplement to the King 's ordinary revenue ; although fifteenths and tenths were generally granted in conjunction with subsidies for the rest of the century , the latter were much more productive . |
| 7 | From this tiny house had flowed some at least of the immortal words that the world had come to know as The Pickwick Papers . |
| 8 | Englishness , as a sense of racial or spiritual identity , had come to function as a stabilizing force within the field of professional English studies , rather than providing the authority for a programme of cultural intervention . |
| 9 | Where a similar pattern occurred in the parishes north of the Downland scarp there was some resistance from the local interests of lesser men , displaced as they often were from what they had come to regard as their ‘ customary ’ rights , particularly grazing on the extensive wastes . |
| 10 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 11 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 12 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |