Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] into [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having taken office in May 1979 , the Conservative government made an early decision to amend the long-standing arrangements for meeting the increasing costs of public sector higher education by limiting the size of the ‘ pool ’ for the financial year of 1980–1 , and an Education Bill was placed before Parliament giving the Secretary of State for Education the necessary power to predetermine the size of , or in the phrase that has crept into common usage , to ‘ cap ’ the pool . |
| 2 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 3 | ‘ Mental handicap ’ is the term that has come into general usage to describe a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind . |
| 4 | She hoped her face had n't betrayed those inner feelings that had leapt into unwelcome life at the sight of him . |
| 5 | Again this is a term that 's passed into everyday speech . |
| 6 | Annie has suffered the indignity of being dumped by her husband , Aaron , for her sex-therapist ; Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy , unscrupulous Morty , a discount electronics magnate ; Elise has quietly suffered for years at the hands of an adulterous ne'er-do-well and has retreated into alcoholic stupefaction . |