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

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1 The result is that , by and large , the fiscal has to take the case as the police have presented it ; he does not seize the opportunity to come into direct contact with the investigation and has little chance of finding out what the police have ignored .
2 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 " .
3 In the course of the fifteenth century all three offices came into lay hands , which held them , from mid-century , for life .
4 However , the technology is moving very fast and , as pen computers come into common usage , prices will fall as dramatically as the prices of conventional computers have over the last couple of years .
5 Now the point I 'm making here is that security competition creates a capability which is designed to defend the state and that capability comes into direct conflict with non-security objectives which are er supported by threats er of violence .
6 For , both within capitalist countries and at the points where expanding bourgeois society encountered — and destroyed — other societies , the living past and the emerging present came into open conflict .
7 A variant of the traditional easel came into common use many years ago .
8 A variant of the traditional easel came into common use many years ago .
9 Following the Suppression , mill sites came into other hands , many being re-used time and time again .
10 Should any of this sodium come into direct contact with water the result could be literally explosive .
11 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 .
12 The new furnace means that waste comes into minimum contact with staff .
13 In the business-orientated 1980s this phrase came into common usage .
14 Land acquired by the Tyne Improvement Commission came into public ownership and most remains there as the property of the Port of Tyne Authority which replaced the Improvement Commission in 1968 .
15 Because of what has gone before , young people coming into residential care need security and a sense of belonging , neither of which they may have experienced in great measure before .
16 This would suggest that a spontaneous decline in the incidence of attempted suicide might be expected as greater numbers of people come into personal contact with someone who has attempted suicide and public attitudes towards attempters become more negative .
17 The line should be gradually drawn through the handler 's hands until the time when the ferret comes into close contact with a rabbit .
18 The declining fortunes of both racing and bookmaking came into direct collision when they tried to determine an appropriate levy for the next fiscal year .
19 The University Labour Federation came into open conflict with the Labour Party at the beginning of 1940 when it was proscribed by the National Executive .
20 The top then slid off the units , the front edge coming into violent contact with my shins , the near edge colliding with the wall-mounted china display until containing my wife 's best china .
21 We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience .
22 Due care must be taken to ensure that none of the primary wiring comes into electrical contact with the wiring on the secondary side of the transformer .
23 The Bengali intelligentsia , the first sizeable social group in Asia to come into close contact with a European nation , were also the first to experience such a revolution in their mental world .
24 At this point his heavy hand came into harsh contact with my face .
25 Let us again consider as an example children coming into local authority care .
26 But this conclusion is not particularly illuminating as it merely says that children come into local authority care when no one else can care for them , a repetitive statement we call a tautology .
27 When stones like the Koh-i-Noor came into British ownership they would be re-cut to the rosette or brilliant pattern even at the cost of a considerable reduction in weight .
28 Photogravure came into commercial use about 1880 .
29 If this land comes into private ownership , it is very doubtful and dim the same amount of access and the same amount of conservation will be , er private conservation will be given and we wo n't have the control over it we have now .
30 At one of the regular meetings , the worlds of finance and neo-colonialism came into direct contact with the suburban world of the Young Conservatives .
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