Example sentences of "[vb past] into [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brat Pack came into being sometime in the early eighties . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus it was , that at some momentous point in the immensity of time there came into being three initial units which can be taken as the true beginning of the story of earthly life . |
| 4 | The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment came into being some time after 1950 when the Cold War was at its height . |
| 5 | 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 . |