Example sentences of "came into [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community .
2 The walls of the Grand Canyon show that animals without backbones , invertebrates , came into existence long before the vertebrates such as fish .
3 It received a new boost in 1990 when John Gribbin and Martin Rees published their The Stuff of the Universe , where it was asserted that the universe came into existence solely in order to create a carbon-based intelligent life-form on just one planet — Earth .
4 There was a strong case for saving Thoresby for the nation , but unfortunately its future came into question just at the moment when all thoughts were focused on Brodsworth , near Doncaster , another Victorian house with an even more complete set of contents .
5 This view was favoured by the new Secretary of State for Health , Kenneth Clarke , who came into office late in the discussions of the working party on the reform of the NHS .
6 A ceasefire came into force late on Feb. 17 allowing Army troops to be evacuated from Adma .
7 In fact it came into effect only in 1988 .
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