Example sentences of "come to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps it will come to be thought by his readers that these successive attitudes to the autobiographical , and to plain speaking , in art are equally valid , equally reversible . |
| 2 | There is a danger in reading the classics , in that they can come to be regarded simply as literature — so always try to look at them as plays for performance — and , it goes without saying , try to see as much theatre as you can . |
| 3 | How did you come to be an actor ? |
| 4 | This he did with difficulty , partly on account of his bad eyesight , partly because of what in later years would come to be referred to as ‘ a learning disability ’ or ‘ mild dyslexia ’ ; and partly because he simply was n't much of a reader . |
| 5 | Or rather it is proved — by sleight of hand ; for if the little scene is not momentous , how did it come to be framed , in all its sparsity , by so much white paper ? |
| 6 | As tribal culture weakens , status and power will come to be less connected with an outward demonstration of wealth , and this may pave the way for a more powerful generation of entrepreneurs as specific commercial objectives come to supersede those of status . |
| 7 | How did Aunt Louise now come to be living in Suffolk ? |
| 8 | Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible . |
| 9 | And in any case the dominating class will come to be internally differentiated , and will necessarily exhibit features of class stratification . |
| 10 | Mr Wriglesworth added : ‘ I have no doubt that this election will come to be seen as the key to the recovery from the worst recession in the housing market since the Second World War . |
| 11 | Both have some idea of how reality might come to be perceived as the other perceives it , and both perhaps at times experience in themselves , as an exception what the other experiences as a rule — a life of faith diversified by doubt , or one of doubt diversified by faith . |
| 12 | The development of citizenship in the 1990s will no doubt continue to occupy the attention of politicians , and increasingly it will come to be debated by citizens , particularly as it enters the national curriculum . |
| 13 | Prior exposure to the context will produce latent inhibition of the contextual stimuli themselves ( they will come to be reliably predicted by those cues that signal the start of an experimental session ) and so the context — stimulus association will form only slowly , if at all , when presentations of the target stimulus are begun . |
| 14 | How did you come to be here ? ’ |
| 15 | We need to consider a form of examination that can reflect the ideal of ‘ transferable skills ’ , and of the equal importance of the practical with the theoretical , that can above all reflect the ideal of broad ‘ philosophical ’ understanding within each subject-area , which can come to be respected by those concerned with selection for higher education as an indicator of potential achievement . |
| 16 | Yet not only could such a rearrangement be brought about , with the will to do so , but it might come to be seen as greatly to the general advantage of the school . |
| 17 | If partnerships find the case proven they should consider how the tensions towards fragmentation might be reduced and how they might come to be a better understanding of the responsibilities and common commitments which are essential in any decentralised organisation . |
| 18 | It could , instead , come to be cherished as a limitless source of hidden wisdom for gradual extraction and incorporation into a rational universal religion . |
| 19 | Instead , whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant , and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served , but to serve , and to give his life as a ransom for many ’ ' ( Matthew 20:25–28 ) . |
| 20 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 21 | So how did he come to be involved in the Vauxhall Layla advert ? |
| 22 | So we recommend that advance notification of commission should come to be accepted as good trading practice . |
| 23 | ‘ How did those bottles come to be in the copper ? ’ he asked . |
| 24 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |
| 25 | To repeat questions posed earlier : what have these to say , and how did they come to be ? |
| 26 | ‘ How d' you come to be here today ? ’ |
| 27 | Through human rights education , basic human rights can come to be considered universally applicable and will , as a matter of course , be universally respected . |
| 28 | It may even be that the indiscriminacy of some of the air operations in the Second World War will come to be seen as something of a historical aberration , and a mere temporary consequence of the undeveloped state of the arts of target acquisition and guidance . |
| 29 | The fact that Balboa caused the Ocean to become a Spanish lake , in effect , would come to be recognized as one of the most important stratagems in the development of the modern world . |
| 30 | Once the Bible began to be approached as historical material , open to critical historical study , it was natural that the New Testament , and in particular the life and personality of Jesus himself , should come to be re-examined . |