Example sentences of "come to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | More recently , and perhaps begging the question of its mental significance , it has come to be known as the Readiness Potential ( RP ) . |
| 3 | Despite the ‘ wisteria ’ , cricket has come to be quietly alive to capitalism . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The long-term result of this statute was that practically all land held by free tenure had come to be held of the King . |
| 11 | And Seal Sands Lock , the place where she had come to be healed so many times in the past , offered her no comfort now . |
| 12 | The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nobody understood , either , how it had come to be there at all . |
| 17 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , much of the drab utilitarianism of urban existence has come to be associated with the design philosophy of functionalism . |
| 19 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 21 | The commentator 's ingenuous query could just as well have been prompted , however , by an unrelated but somehow symptomatic display of the insensitivity and obstinacy that have come to be regarded as part of Kohl 's character . |
| 22 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 23 | Now it seems that some things work , especially those like the AEC that are associated with what has come to be described as the problem-focused/task-centred approach ( Roberts , 1990 ) . |
| 24 | I would not , therefore , expect theism to have to rest its case on the sort of argument for God 's existence that Anselm advanced in the eleventh century and which has come to be known as the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ . |
| 25 | Accompanying these changes in the policy and organisation of the church was the growth of new developments in theology , which have come to be known as the Theology of Liberation . |
| 26 | Agrarian policies have come to be focused less on land tenure arrangements and more on the growth and distribution of food . |
| 27 | wheat has come to be an important imported product which reflects the increasing consumption of bread as a staple , rather than maize-based food products such as tortillas . |
| 28 | Discrimination and parental choice have come to be linked over a number of issues of current importance . |
| 29 | This work has come to be called the ‘ little g minor ’ , linking it in power and mood to the Symphony in the same key , K.550 of 1788 . |
| 30 | If Marx were right — that colonialism enslaved the colonizing power — then the slaves had come to be loaded with even heavier chains . |