Example sentences of "come into [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The British Olympic yachting team , which a week ago was an unknown quantity , has now come into sharper focus with three representatives chosen , and others emerging .
2 Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years .
3 At that point Posi chimed in to say that another vessel had come into visual range just beyond the Valve .
4 ‘ Does your own mother come into that category ? ’
5 It was a narrow squeak for Errol , for had Newry lost to Queen 's a fortnight ago and ended up in a relegation decider against the students , the ban would have come into immediate effect .
6 Chemists were even suspicious of physical methods of analysis ; but the convenience of the spectroscope meant that by the 1870s it had come into regular use , as we shall see later .
7 It is the second role which has recently come into greater prominence .
8 So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land
9 For the first time in her life , Louisa had come into one of the dwellings of the Coketown Hands ; for the first time in her life , she was face to face with anything like individuality in connection with them .
10 We were the most powerful country in the world and the overwhelming fact was that astonishing amounts of money had come into ordinary people 's homes .
11 My most abiding memory will not be of the joy of the French , but the terrible sight of Pete Sampras ' face at the prize giving ceremony which looked as if he had come into intimate contact with an atom bomb .
12 The old spelling is to continue to be ‘ tolerated ’ until the new version has come into general use .
13 Planning a complete package of care This rather ugly term ‘ package of care ’ has come into general welfare use to describe what is often a complex solution to a client 's need for services .
14 ‘ Mental handicap ’ is the term that has come into general usage to describe a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind .
15 Such were the main groups of Cossacks and anti-Tito Yugoslavs who had come into 5 Corps hands by 12 May .
16 Once actionable , trusts must have come into popular use , i for already under Claudius a change in the jurisdictional scheme was introduced , and two special praetors were appointed .
17 Should any of this sodium come into direct contact with water the result could be literally explosive .
18 On this issue Owen and Roger have come into open conflict but , although the observation that Roger lacks commitment to the aim of returning pupils to school is a correct one , the implications drawn from it are not .
19 Spurs had come into this match unbeaten in their previous eight matches , and although they have improved their League standing , the cup competitions remain their best hope of success .
20 The great spa-temple at Bath would almost certainly have come into this category .
21 How many had come into this squat or that , asking , " Any of your soup left , Alice ? " and then sat breaking bread into it , handing back their plates for more .
22 Fear of war and fear of pollution come into this category .
23 ‘ Could any of them have come into this kitchen ? ’ asked Rose .
24 I have come into this chapel to commit murder .
25 The field in which the claims of individual commercialism come into most immediate conflict with reputable notions of social values is that of health … no society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means …
26 However little ‘ charisma ’ had come into these considerations in 1933 , there seems no doubt that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ — or significant elements of it — played an important role in shaping the behaviour of the conservative élites in the following years in at least two ways .
27 Somebody had obviously come into some money .
28 I can get that off Judas , he 's come into some cash lately . ’
29 The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office on May 8 announced that the UK would return to Albania gold worth £10,000,000 ( US$18,000,000 ) which had come into British hands after its confiscation by the Nazis during the Second World War .
30 Pronethalol had only just come into clinical use when it was found to produce tumours in mice .
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