Example sentences of "[vb pp] into [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The religious police ( mutawa ) were recently pricked into action by the horrifying sight of Saudi women demonstrating for the right to drive . |
| 2 | The three of them dissolved into laughter at the idea of it , and Ianthe went to make some more coffee . |
| 3 | A couple of years earlier Wayne had come into conflict with director John Huston when they made The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1957 . |
| 4 | Despite 19 years of close co-operation with Kohl , Teltschik was known to have come into conflict with Genscher at the Foreign Ministry . |
| 5 | Here , delusions of persecution become actualized if , as not unusually happens , the interests of the citizen come into conflict with those of a state which has monopolized all the means of coercive power . |
| 6 | It 's the second time in a quarter of a century that the locals have come into conflict with planning officials . |
| 7 | I had already come into conflict over race and patriotism . |
| 8 | The ‘ new classicals ’ macro theory is historically fairly recent , having come into vogue in the late 1970s and 1980s . |
| 9 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 10 | The investigators had also come into possession of what was said to be Fhimah 's personal diary , improbable though it must have seemed to them that a trained intelligence agent would keep one or put anything in writing , let alone the incriminating English word ‘ taggs ’ ( sic ) in the middle of an entry in Arabic and then , according to media reports , leave the diary behind for the investigators to find . |
| 11 | In animals , the formation of sheets of cells which fold in various ways , and which in consequence come into contact with each other at specific points , is a common feature of development , and provides a partial answer to Weismann 's question . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly , the bubbling oxygen would have come into contact with palladium . |
| 13 | One of them was Guardsman Johnny Cooper who had managed to join the Scots Guards while still under age and who was very impressed by his commanding officer : ‘ he was different from the officers I had come into contact with up to that time . |
| 14 | In such cases the unlucky individual has taken the precaution of wearing a contraceptive sheath , but a sore on the vulva , say , of his sexual partner has come into contact with part of the penis not covered by the condom . |
| 15 | Gedge has seen at first-hand the reactions of people who have come into contact with the group . |
| 16 | Until now , in most cases , the child will only have come into contact with those who are most concerned for his welfare — mother , father , grandparents and so on . |
| 17 | The deaf of Glasgow were at that time extremely fortunate to have in William Agnew a most intelligent and capable man , an artist in his leisure time , who through his hobby had come into contact with Queen Victoria and who enjoyed a friendship with Lord and Lady Blythswood ( Glasgow Deaf and Dumb F.C . |
| 18 | The supporters of modern algebra within the ATAM , who had come into contact with the pure mathematicians in various European-wide meetings , such as Royaumont and the ICSlTM conferences , gradually made ‘ modern mathematics ’ more acceptable to many school teachers by combining it with those elements of their original mission concerned with Piagetian ideas , and proposing ‘ intuitive ’ and ‘ experiental ’ approaches to its study . |
| 19 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher cited two different routes : a recommendation of a consultancy from a referral source , i.e. an executive who has come into contact with the headhunter on a previous assignment ; and by direct experience of a particular search firm from the user point of view from a Kingfisher executive who had employed that firm on a previous occasion , before he worked for Kingfisher . |
| 20 | The second stage of the field work involved contacting ‘ hidden ’ heroin users , that is , those who had not come into contact with Wirral agencies . |
| 21 | The concept of the ‘ drug career ’ has been used by a number of authors ( for example , Becker 1963 ) to systematise the response patterns of individuals who have come into contact with a given drug . |
| 22 | On the one hand , having been ‘ on the scene ’ for some time , they were more likely to have come into contact with other injectors . |
| 23 | Following on from the analysis of known heroin use , the second stage of the ethnographic work involved contacting the ‘ hidden ’ sector , those who had used heroin during the course of the prevalence study period , but who had not come into contact with any of the ten statutory or voluntary agencies surveyed . |
| 24 | Having mapped out the general social and drug career characteristics of users interviewed in the four snowball samples , the following section will discuss why these users had not come into contact with the various voluntary and statutory bodies expected to deal with the ‘ heroin problem ’ . |
| 25 | I think everyone would 've come into contact with it and I think it was just up to your own individual self really whether you took it or not . |
| 26 | During that time , and especially since the publication of The Obair Report in December 1988 , we have come into contact with many other groups and individuals who share our concerns about government policies in the area . |
| 27 | A lot of teachers jump to conclusions about pupils before they 've even come into contact with them and broken through the pupil 's resentment . |
| 28 | Or should I say boys , because you do n't strike me as ever having come into contact with any men . ’ |
| 29 | Since my wife was diagnosed with the illness , I have been researching alternative cures during which time I have come into contact with the ‘ Association stop au cancer ’ based at 29 Bd Gambetta , 73000 Chambery Cedex , France . |
| 30 | An employee had been electrocuted when working on the magnetron assembly line of the company 's Thornaby-on-Tees factory , which was engaged in another stage of the microwave oven manufacturing process , when he had come into contact with exposed conductors . |