The Education and Skills Authority (ESA) was due to come into existence on 1 January.

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However, there are two ways that the ECB could allow such a lender of last resort to come into existence.

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What genetic change allowed multicellular animals to come into existence remains obscure.

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Many new rules and laws have come into existence to assuage fears about paedophiles, terrorists or hooligans.

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At the same time as banks are sacking employees in operating roles, they are adding swarms to cope with various requests from government agencies and other new filings, all to avoid violating rules that may never come into existence and temporary measures that may be rescinded.

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Non-astronomers may not care much about the fine distinctions between stars and gas-giants, but understanding their origins will help explain how small, rocky planets come into existence and how commonplace such earth-like planets are likely to be.

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The number of bitcoin files in existence is limited, and while new bitcoins come into existence every day, the rate of expansion in the bitcoin supply is known to all users.

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