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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The old spelling is to continue to be ‘ tolerated ’ until the new version has come into general use .
4 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 .
5 Pronethalol had only just come into clinical use when it was found to produce tumours in mice .
6 What they 've come into common use .
7 Have to has to come into common use before it gets into the dictionary .
8 This elegant device came into practical use in the 1920s and , when screwed into the centre of a tree trunk , extracts a slender core on which the rings are counted .
9 It came into general use .
10 During this time he introduced cast-iron brake blocks of the type which later came into general use .
11 A variant of the traditional easel came into common use many years ago .
12 A variant of the traditional easel came into common use many years ago .
13 Over the years he invented many improvements for Watt 's steam engines , including a D-shaped sliding valve which later came into common use for many types of steam engine .
14 Meanwhile " the multitude " or " the mob " — this latter term came into common use at this period — were explicitly excluded from orthodox definitions of " the people " .
15 Photogravure came into commercial use about 1880 .
16 Like the beta-blocking drugs which came into clinical use later , their effects were not predicted but were undoubtedly useful .
17 The basic chemical structure common to promethazine and chlorpromazine provided a good basis from which to begin the search for compounds which were better than chlorpromazine , and in the next few years many came into clinical use .
18 Newcomen died in 1729 , when his engines were coming into increasing use all over Europe as well as in Britain , and soon in America too , but he had gained little financial advantage from his invention .
19 It did not come into general use until the latter half of the seventeenth century .
20 Nevertheless , rubber studs did not immediately come into general use because the process of changing them ruined the soles of the boots .
21 It is conceivable that quotas may come into future use to encourage or limit the numbers of certain types of applicant .
22 Furthermore , MailSort , the Post Office 's new bulk mailing rebate scheme which will come into full use in the Summer of '89 , is bringing computerisation to the direct marketing industry because it just is n't practical to sort mail by hand into thousands of individual postcodes .
23 We are confident that any problems in the early days of the new system will be kept to a minimum , and that their effect will be outweighed by the advantages of the new system as it comes into full use .
24 It will be another five years before the gun comes into common use .
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