Sentence examples for have come to function from inspiring English sources

In some languages participles have come to function as finite verbs.

American humanitarian groups tend to have such close ties with Washington that they have come to function, Rieff argues, as subcontractors.

On the one hand, he (1962 [1846]) condemned aspects of his contemporary social world, claiming that many people have come to function as merely place-holders in a society that constantly levels down possibilities to the lowest common denominator.

Fourth, corporations have come to function much less effectively as providers of large-scale opportunity.

For the foreseeable future LA will continue to need many of its freeways and accidental freeways - local streets that have come to function as de facto rush hour freeways.

Such has been the strength of the German economy that Western Europe has come to function largely as a Deutsche-mark zone.

Our world is more complicated, certainly in terms of art, which has come to function as an all but liquid currency of ballooning excess wealth.

They survived many – in some cases, more than 20 – years in Nasser's prisons, and personal sacrifice for the cause has come to function as their main currency.

From its founding four decades ago, the Conservative Political Action Conference, set to begin Thursday in Washington, has come to function as an annual gut check for the political right.

In the high deserts of the American West, where the racing surface moves under the tires, the sand circuit has come to function as an unofficial minor league to the professionally financed asphalt drag racing of the National Hot Rod Association.

The war has left Kanon's Istanbul physically unscathed, but as neutral territory between the warring powers it has come to function as an entrepôt of rumor and intelligence.