Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | National liberation was the most important problem and the opportunity had come . |
| 2 | Now that the Regional Geophysics Group is part of TMOS , the opportunity has come to redesign parts of the Geophysics Core programme to integrate it more effectively with other activities . |
| 3 | Some Labour politicians continued to cling to their previous peace strategies but by the late 1930s the majority had come to accept that war was inevitable — a view confirmed by the events in Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland which preceded the outbreak of the European war . |
| 4 | Against that , though , there is a ‘ vast contemporary repertoire — the guitar has come into its own in popularity in this period , and people are now writing for it with a vengeance . |
| 5 | The money for the suite has come from three sources — £35,000 under the Technology Enhancement Programme ( TEP ) organised by the Engineering Council , £20,000 from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation ( the Sainsbury family ) , and £15,000 from Stockport Council . |
| 6 | The Prince had come to know Van der Post in Kenya two years before , when he had been his guide on safari . |
| 7 | The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it . |
| 8 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 9 | Endorsement of the award has come from many sectors of industry , including Stirling Gallacher , chairman of Sutcliffe Services Group Limited , who says that people are the key to our current and future success as leading contract caterers . |
| 10 | Mr Nick Mitchell , the head of personnel for the signals and telecommunications section , said the board had come to certain conclusions about pay and conditions for its 7,000 S&T engineers after a review of manpower and reward systems . |
| 11 | The money had to come from somewhere , and while old newspapers might spawn new newspapers there was not , of course , any ‘ old ’ ITV . |
| 12 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 13 | No one knew where the money had come from . |
| 14 | Vlok said that the money had come from a fund established to combat international sanctions . |
| 15 | Within a year the fundraising campaign , which included selling note cards and T-shirts , had been completed , much of the money having come from local businesses and foundations . |
| 16 | Those of us in public life are aware that , whenever complaints of poor service come before us , there are always Labout Members who will blame either the absence of public funds , although they never make any reference to where the money has to come from , or the Government . |
| 17 | The money has come the Government 's waiting list initiative . |
| 18 | The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture . |
| 19 | We 've had a good living out of it but if that same system has brought them on their feet , you know and built them nice homes er right they 've delved into Company 's House now , all the dirty water not dirty water all the whatsit has come up how much they 've drawn from these quarries . |
| 20 | The damage has come within yards of the boundary fence at one part of a 150 yard stretch . |
| 21 | Opposition to the ban had come from the traditional whaling countries of Norway , Iceland and Japan , joined by St Vincent and St Lucia . |
| 22 | The blanket had come unrolled and twice he brought himself down with it . |
| 23 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
| 24 | the hour had gone and we could of stayed probably another half an hour without realizing that the hour had come |
| 25 | The election has come just in time to boost the Easter start of the housing market 's buying season . |
| 26 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 27 | The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home . |
| 28 | He cringed from that single revelation of himself and of his motive , even while knowing it was n't really true to his nature , that the instance had come , gone and never would return . |
| 29 | You rub your right hand on your left elbow and then move the hand to her ear to see if the coin has come back yet . |
| 30 | It looked as though the end of the trail had come for the tiger . |