Example sentences of "[adv] come to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had only just come to be important before the ‘ unnatural ’ town of the industrial revolution conjured up some of the most dramatic and ‘ romanticized ’ of contrasts . |
| 2 | ‘ How did a man like you ever come to be in the Pioneers ? ’ asked the board . |
| 3 | Once changes in the classroom have been made and special items of furniture and equipment have been introduced , they usually come to be accepted as a matter of course and are regarded by pupils as ‘ how things are ’ . |
| 4 | Because some local speciality has caught the imagination of tourists , it has , today , almost automatically come to be accepted as a great dish . |
| 5 | The estates then come to be seen as ‘ ghetto ’ , ‘ sink ’ or ‘ residual ’ estates , where no one wants to live , where the repairs are not done , and only people who have no chance of being offered anywhere better are forced to live . |
| 6 | Maybe he saw only the person within the flesh , a person who , for all hir faults , he had reluctantly come to be very fond of . |
| 7 | Some never come to be , unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them . ’ |
| 8 | Galadriel 's warning about the events in her mirror , ‘ Some never come to be , unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them ’ , would have been well said to him . |