Example sentences of "[verb] that the [noun sg] have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened them to find that the priest had come in and was blandly regarding her and her father . |
| 2 | I opened the lockers to pull out the kit but found that the top had come off a water container and half a gallon had spilt , soaking the tea bags and bursting the envelope which carried my documents . |
| 3 | This works fairly well , but many people will consider that the time has come to consider a more rigid mounting . |
| 4 | I hope that the Ministers will seriously consider that the time has come to tidy up that particular aspect of health and safety . |
| 5 | encourage movement in your opponent 's position by : summarizing the course of negotiations so far , suggesting that the time has come for mutual concessions suggesting a new position which represents a different point of departure for both parties linking two or more issues since ‘ it might help us get nearer a settlement ’ suggesting an adjournment indicating the exact area to which you want your opponent to pay attention |
| 6 | The visitors turned and filed out of the room , realising that the conversation had come to an end . |
| 7 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 8 | Even before the blazer , I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor . |
| 9 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 10 | The Minister said earlier today that he hoped it would be accepted that the Government had come to the House in good faith . |
| 11 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 12 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 13 | It may be that by the end of the century , when we are carrying all before us , some fair-minded matron will survey her predominantly female team and announce that the time has come for a Ministry for Men . |
| 14 | and announce that the time has come |
| 15 | My Lords , I have long thought that the time had come to change the self-imposed judicial rule that forbade any reference to the legislative history of an enactment as an aid to its interpretation . |
| 16 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 17 | Her teeth stopped chattering , and when Matthew came back with the tea and the whisky , he remarked that the colour had come back into her face . |
| 18 | In view of all this , he might finally decide that the time had come to give up further arguing and accept what each of us has told him . |
| 19 | We must recognize that the time has come for a national crusade against pornography . |
| 20 | Mr. Lester submitted that the time has come to relax the rule to the extent which I have mentioned . |
| 21 | Taking advantage of this situation , Napoleon decided that the time had come to redraw the map of Italy , which , since 1815 , had been either directly or indirectly ruled by Austria . |
| 22 | It all stated when Jamie Spence 's regular Tour caddie decided that the time had come to marry his sweetheart . |
| 23 | When Largo Caballero resisted Communist pressure to dissolve the POUM and arrest its leaders , the Communists decided that the time had come to get rid of him . |
| 24 | Jacqui was on one end of a double-headed dildo when she decided that the time had come to turn Kattina in . |
| 25 | Bevin , impressed by Soviet intransigence during the foreign ministers ' conference at the end of 1947 , decided that the time had come for a more overt display of Western unity . |
| 26 | Now I believe that the time has come for us to think again about the theological side , the theological er and I make this proposal consider the feasibility of a theological examination anti- semitism and the convenor is ready to accept it Thank you sir . |
| 27 | He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion . |
| 28 | She turned her head a little , and he saw that the calm had come back to her face , but now there was light and colour in it , as if the blood curbed and slowed to solitude and stillness had begun to flow again . |
| 29 | Nenna saw that the point had come , perhaps exactly as she tied up , when he was more at a loss than she was . |
| 30 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |