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

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1 As the conditions changed to the more temperate climate we know today , so the proportion of reptiles had decreased — but there was no overall trend of the kind that would be implied if the mammals had only come into existence in the later geological periods .
2 In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms .
3 The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop .
4 In many places , such conferences had already come into existence , but their authority has been greatly enhanced by the Council .
5 I had already come into conflict over race and patriotism .
6 Lou smoked three cigarettes a day : it was his one bad habit — and on one occasion Sophie 's skirt and a stub had somehow come into contact .
7 News of the suspension of the conference , which had resumed on Jan. 14 after a series of delays but had soon come into confrontation with the government , was greeted with demonstrations in Kinshasa .
8 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 .
9 The video had originally come into use as a promotional device — a way for a group to receive television coverage , in Britain and abroad , without the expensive and time-consuming necessity of travel , hotel bills , etc .
10 Inspired by Hensel 's construction , E Steinitz , in a 140 page paper in 1910 , undertook a classification of all fields , several apparently unrelated sorts of which had now come into existence .
11 Although a UN-brokered ceasefire agreement had supposedly come into force on Nov. 1 , there was serious fighting between Nov. 1 and 5 in Luanda and the central and southern towns of Benguela , Huambo , Lobita and Lubango , in which at least 1,000 people were killed .
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