Example sentences of "come to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier — |
| 2 | Er erm I 'm sorry it is the question now that I 'm going to come to was going back to organisation how often does the board meet ? and who does it regard as ? |
| 3 | Certainly these associative processes can just as readily be interpreted as constituting an associative mechanism for categorization or concept formation in that they allow physically different stimuli to come to be treated in the same way . |
| 4 | Brawdy Remembered ( C I Thomas Printing Services , 32pp , illus , sbk , £1.50 ) will prove in years to come to be an interesting souvenir of a well-known RAF station . |
| 5 | It was not just enough for God to declare forgiveness but God had to do something in Christ for that forgiveness to come to be . |
| 6 | Taking the meaning of open in 73b as basic , we can paraphrase 73c ( not exactly , but quite closely ) as ‘ the door came to be open ’ , and 73d as ‘ John caused the door to come to be open . ’ |
| 7 | We pray for the clergy associated with us ; for Ian at St Aubyn 's School , for Gill , ministering to the deaf community ; for Bill at the Prison ; for David at Mercer House ; for Richard and Phillip , chaplains to the university ; for Howard as he prepares to come to be curate here . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Boris ‘ You had to come to be taught a lesson . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is the nearest I have come to being smacked . |
| 10 | The nearest I 've come to being arrested in the line of duty was when I was told to go out onto the streets , microphone in hand , and smile at people . |
| 11 | Romance blossomed once again as she realised how close Neil had come to being killed . |
| 12 | There was no blood on the bandage , but as she glanced across the broad sweep of his back Isabel realised suddenly how close Guy had come to being killed . |
| 13 | Limping awkwardly to the window , he watched Tom fight his way through the snow in the farmyard , and he thought of how close he and Carrie had come to being caught in bed together . |
| 14 | By myth is meant here what has generally come to be accepted within sociology and social anthropology since the work of Levi-Strauss : an account of the origins of a society or of particular crucial events in its life , which unite the cosmos to the social structure by actively shaping everyday life perceptions . |
| 15 | More recently , and perhaps begging the question of its mental significance , it has come to be known as the Readiness Potential ( RP ) . |
| 16 | Despite the ‘ wisteria ’ , cricket has come to be quietly alive to capitalism . |
| 17 | Brailsford quite categoricaliy rejects the idea that group aggression was part of the spectacle in the way it has come to be since the 1960s . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that the two old ladies did a little plotting to marry their favourite grandchildren off to on another ; but without the events of 1979 their dearest hopes might never have come to be . |
| 19 | The recent attempt by Clive Pearman , the chief superintendent in charge of Notting Hill , to persuade the two local councils to cut off funds to voluntary orgnanisations which he considered inimical was an example of an approach whose shortcomings have come to be appreciated at the Yard . |
| 20 | ‘ Matters of concern would have included the extent to which United Kingdom residents were investors in the Jersey funds , how they had come to be investors in those funds , how those funds were managed , whether they were kept separate from the United Kingdom funds or whether there was intermingling [ the switching of money between UK and offshore funds ] … and , ultimately , whether the Jersey funds as well as the United Kingdom funds could be properly accounted for . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed . |
| 22 | If a socage tenant died without heirs and intestate , his land escheated , i.e. went back to the lord of whom it was held , who in practically all cases had come to be the King . |
| 23 | The long-term result of this statute was that practically all land held by free tenure had come to be held of the King . |
| 24 | And Seal Sands Lock , the place where she had come to be healed so many times in the past , offered her no comfort now . |
| 25 | The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called . |
| 26 | Yet for women religious , celibacy has come to be a statement in direct opposition to western cultural norms of women having to be available to men and usually defined by their relationships to them . |
| 27 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 28 | The occasion of Macleod 's fury was the process by which Lord Home had come to be chosen as Leader of the party and thereby Prime Minister in succession to Harold Macmillan . |
| 29 | Nobody understood , either , how it had come to be there at all . |
| 30 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |