Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] into [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp has moved into top gear and could be complete by the end of next month , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 2 | Taylor has turned into public enemy number one . |
| 3 | The inquiry that my right hon. and learned Friend has commissioned into primary education will , of course , encompass the needs of children with special educational needs . |
| 4 | AN EPIC battle over a five-a-side complex has gone into extra time after protestors lodged 1,000 letters of objection . |
| 5 | It appears a lot of research has gone into this book , especially into the work on comparative social security systems . |
| 6 | Allegations that Kuwait had moved into Iraqi territory were " a falsification of reality and a resumé of inverted truths " because it was Iraq which had a " full history of violations of Kuwaiti territories " . |
| 7 | During the war , Aziz claimed , Kuwait had advanced into Iraqi territory and had set up military establishments and oil installations . |
| 8 | Two months later spring had opened into full-blown summer . |
| 9 | Not since the demolition gangs had moved into that area south of the river to knock down the old tenements and clear it for redevelopment . |
| 10 | Notoriously these words have crept into ordinary usage from medieval philosophical Latin . |
| 11 | But at the same time it 's wonderful that the government is recognizing the kind of work that gay organizations have put into this issue . |
| 12 | Their architecture has faded into unremarkable modernism , devoted to speed , rush , and disciplined circulation . |
| 13 | Add to that the fact that the Paris-based company that supplied the cargo has vanished into thin air , and it starts to look very suspicious . ’ |
| 14 | Crusaders fifth Dubliner John Cleary has gone into junior management down south . |
| 15 | By the mid-1930s the Soviet menace had slipped into fourth place in the SIS ‘ order of priorities ’ behind Germany , Italy , and Japan . |
| 16 | It is first heard of at the coronation of Pope Nicholas II in 1059 , when it appears that because the mitre had passed into general use by bishops ( and even by princes ) the pope 's own headgear had to undergo change to become distinctive and exclusive to the pope . |
| 17 | Iskandara had changed into black taffeta and her mother 's diamonds and James wore plaid trousers and a velvet jacket and a collar he loathed almost as much as Alexandra loathed the pudding , a high stiffened wing collar around which Murray had tied a bow tie of black grosgrain . |
| 18 | Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence . |
| 19 | Much determination and hard work have gone into that attempt , but it is now seen to have failed . |
| 20 | ACROSS the Atlantic , the Democratic primaries have degenerated into near farce . |
| 21 | In the past , developing countries have fallen into ridiculous debt trying to pay back loans that were made for impractical , ludicrously expensive projects . |
| 22 | ‘ I fear that the investigation has descended into total chaos , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It was abandoned when the new church was built in 1909 and in less than severity years has fallen into complete ruin — a good indication of how severe the Dales weather can be and how quickly buildings succumb to its assault . |
| 24 | Of a family where child abuse may be taking place , they will say that Satan has got into that family , and that there 's some sort of evil force at work . |
| 25 | That steep yield curve has turned into political temptation . |
| 26 | Worries centre on what appears to be an acceptance by IBM that its mainframe business has slipped into irretrievable decline , and as that perception becomes widespread among users the decline can only accelerate as those that had planned to grow their mainframe installations pause and reconsider the options . |
| 27 | Almost certainly textiles had fallen into some disarray by early 1524 . |
| 28 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 29 | As many as 5,000 Palestinians had been held in Syrian prisons since 1983 , when relations between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad had deteriorated into open hostility [ see pp. 32457-59 ; 32649-51 ] . |
| 30 | Bohunt have moved into second place in the division , but are 65 points behind Grange ‘ A ’ with two matches each to play . |