Example sentences of "into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beatty , on the other hand , was making $450,000 a picture by then and was shooting Bonnie and Clyde with Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway which turned Beatty into a multi-millionaire overnight because he also prised some percentage points from the backers . |
| 2 | Both types are adjustable and can be calibrated to give the desired strength of solution by turning a small screw set in the housing next to the discharge orifice or by a hexagonal key slotted into a screw at the back of the device . |
| 3 | In the United States , homosexuals became an important market and a process which spread over here — a political movement slowly mutated into a consumerist , self-sufficient ghetto : politics replaced by pleasure . |
| 4 | ‘ Betty is turning into a vegetarian , ’ explained Lydia ; ‘ so we lean rather heavily on the egg . ’ |
| 5 | Then the Consultant Analyst will put the appropriate colour pellets into a beaker with an oil blend , heat it in a microwave oven , pour it into a split mould , cool it down to harden it , and slip it into a lipstick case . |
| 6 | To head off a tantrum , try squirting a shot of washing-up liquid into a beaker , adding a bit of water and giving her a drinking straw to blow bubbles with . |
| 7 | Pour it into a pewter container and before it solidifies embed a few matches into the mixture |
| 8 | The PowerPC 601 , which incorporates Motorola 's 88110 bus architecture into IBM 's design , has 2.8 million transistors crammed into a dimension of approximately four-tenths of an inch per side , and uses IBM 's 0.6 micron CMOS process . |
| 9 | Virgin , he claimed had been precipitated into a compromise with Sting largely because their key witness was unreliable . |
| 10 | Agreements not infrequently will provide that the mere fact of the presentation of a petition for a bankruptcy order by a creditor , or a partner applying for an interim order under s253 of the Insolvency Act 1986 , or a partner entering into a compromise for the benefit of his creditors generally , or even the circumstance of a partner being unable and having no reasonable prospect of being able to pay his debts , should make the power exercisable . |
| 11 | Under CA 1985 , s425 a company has the power to enter into a compromise or arrangement between itself and its members , or any class of them . |
| 12 | POLICE were today hunting three people who tricked their way into a pensioner 's house and stole £220 using a baby as a decoy . |
| 13 | BURGLARS who broke into a pensioner 's home probably could n't believe their luck . |
| 14 | DARLINGTON police have issued a warning after a man conned his way into a pensioner 's home and made off with £120 from her purse . |
| 15 | The oldest of the three porters running the glass-fronted lodge just inside the main entrance was putting a middle-aged woman with a blue hat into a wheel-chair . |
| 16 | See Martin Sheen drunkenly method act himself into a heart attack , watch made Marlon improvise pure nonsense out of thin air and discover the real-life Dennis Hopper to be more manic than his character . |
| 17 | The obvious objective of the recent reforms — and the hardest nut to crack — is building quality and innovation into a performance indicator . |
| 18 | a ‘ quick-service hatch ’ and lots of ‘ go ’ have turned a liability into a success . |
| 19 | Although it is not possible to translate this directly into a success rate for the pupils in this project , an estimate of 40 per cent would be reasonable — about the same as that obtained for the written test items . |
| 20 | Show some ability to organise and present complex subject matter , eg putting forward a number of conflicting points of view , or weaving two strands into a story . |
| 21 | When Maxim Gorki as a young man read a story by Guy de Maupassant , he marvelled ‘ why the plain , familiar words put together by a man into a story about the uninteresting life of a servant moved me so ’ . |
| 22 | Dialogue of this type can be used effectively when the reader has settled into a story , knows exactly who 's who by the way they speak , and is as anxious as the author to reach the crisis point . |
| 23 | His favourite verb-form is ‘ would have been ’ and ‘ would have thought ’ , and he shows an endless propensity to turn everything — Shakespeare 's sonnets , Marvell 's supposed marriage , the autobiographical subtext to Joyce 's Ulysses — into a story , and usually a rather good story . |
| 24 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll soon get the hang of it , ’ and he launched into a story concerning himself and P.L. O'Hara on a motorcycle ride to the Brontë sisters ' vicarage at Haworth . |
| 26 | This time she was prepared and she launched quickly into a story that she was a freelance journalist doing an article for the women 's page of a national newspaper about women who joined sports clubs . |
| 27 | Except what he had made into a story . |
| 28 | A narrative description of a subject under the guise of another suggestively similar subject ; a simile extended into a story ; a sustained metaphor . |
| 29 | There were ways by which all Homo sapiens could be reduced abridged — into a story , a kind of poem . |
| 30 | He was without doubt the very worst kind of news reporter , taking a few bare facts and embroidering them into a story ! |