Example sentences of "[that] have [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If frosts freeze water that has seeped into imperfect joints , the expansion will force them farther apart , with disastrous results . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Mental handicap ’ is the term that has come into general usage to describe a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind . |
| 5 | And from the distance they looked like small stars of the sky that had formed into new constellations and drifted away on the still water . |
| 6 | She hoped her face had n't betrayed those inner feelings that had leapt into unwelcome life at the sight of him . |
| 7 | They and their main shareholder contended that , in reliance on the facility offered by the banks , that had entered into certain commitments . |
| 8 | Again this is a term that 's passed into everyday speech . |