Example sentences of "came [prep] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The War Office Section MO 9 came into being that afternoon and began steps to raise the special force of commandos named after those Boer farmers of the South African war . |
| 2 | The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment came into being some time after 1950 when the Cold War was at its height . |
| 3 | The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called . |
| 4 | Putting data into a spreadsheet is simplicity itself , but remembering where that data came from is another matter . |
| 5 | The received wisdom about reform came to be that ‘ research shows that nothing works ’ , that ‘ whatever you do to offenders makes no difference ’ , although this was always an exaggeration . |