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 | 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 " . |
| 6 | During the war , Aziz claimed , Kuwait had advanced into Iraqi territory and had set up military establishments and oil installations . |
| 7 | Two months later spring had opened into full-blown summer . |
| 8 | Notoriously these words have crept into ordinary usage from medieval philosophical Latin . |
| 9 | Their architecture has faded into unremarkable modernism , devoted to speed , rush , and disciplined circulation . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Crusaders fifth Dubliner John Cleary has gone into junior management down south . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ACROSS the Atlantic , the Democratic primaries have degenerated into near farce . |
| 15 | In the past , developing countries have fallen into ridiculous debt trying to pay back loans that were made for impractical , ludicrously expensive projects . |
| 16 | ‘ I fear that the investigation has descended into total chaos , ’ he said . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That steep yield curve has turned into political temptation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ] . |
| 22 | A whole life may be wasted idling today 's minutes in reveries of tomorrow 's dreams , until hopes fade and young days have turned into old age . |
| 23 | Because of this certain ideas have passed into critical legend ; Wordsworth 's own Preface has encouraged modern readers to believe that the reading public of the 1790s were completely unprepared for the new poetry , and that Lyrical Ballads was a complete failure from the point of view of communication and also of financial success . |
| 24 | In fact , by the end of the sixties Zahedis relationship with Amir Abbas Hoveyda had degenerated into bitter dislike , which Zahedi , impetuous and frank , took less trouble to conceal . |
| 25 | At that point Posi chimed in to say that another vessel had come into visual range just beyond the Valve . |
| 26 | The best brains and resources had gone into military research and development until Gorbachev came to power . |
| 27 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had wandered into deep water and there were obviously important lessons to be learnt from the major row that the film had occasioned . |
| 28 | The snubs and indignities that he received from that quarter have passed into Gaullist lore : when he so much as enquired about the progress of the assembly 's constitutional commission , one of his own former ministers told him it was none of his business . |
| 29 | Billions of pounds have gone into improving air , rail and underground links . |
| 30 | One phrase has passed into general circulation : it was Diderot who spoke of ‘ strangling the last king with the guts of the last priest ’ , but , if the phrase is remembered , its author is probably forgotten . |