Example sentences of "came [to-vb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered how it came to pass that a thinking man bore the prejudices of his unthinking parents into the future ? |
| 2 | But it had established three important points : first , that there was potential to cut across established Green-Orange divisions in pursuing the interests of Derry ; second , that some educated young Catholics who were uninspired by the Nationalist Party would work enthusiastically on a campaign which challenged traditional sectarian prejudices ; and third , many people came to believe that a section , at least , of Derry Unionists was prepared to sacrifice the interests of the city to those of its party . |
| 3 | Bill Lewis spent many years dowsing the standing stones of his native South Wales and came to believe that a crossing of underground streams beneath each ‘ active ’ standing stone creates a small static electric field . |
| 4 | In London representatives of the Belgian , Dutch and Norwegian governments-in-exile all hoped for British leadership of a post-war alliance system , and many British officials and ministers came to believe that a ‘ western bloc ’ could both control Germany in future and bolster British standing in the world vis-à-vis America and Russia . |
| 5 | Step 2 of the Anonymous Fellowships states " Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity " . |
| 6 | " Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity " . |
| 7 | Raymond Williams came to think that a splitting of the discipline was increasingly likely , since cultural materialism and radical semiotics were not compatible with the dominant paradigm of literary study : ‘ For these necessarily include the paradigm itself as a matter for analysis , rather than as a governing definition of the object of knowledge . ’ |