Example sentences of "[noun] by [verb] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 2 | In volume IV there is a description of the disembarkation of cattle at Port Askaig by throwing them into the sea to swim ashore . |
| 3 | In volume IV there is a description of the disembarkation of cattle at Port Askaig by throwing them into the sea to swim ashore . |
| 4 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 5 | We have compared the expression levels of VP6 and NS1 proteins in alternative sites by cloning one into the Bam HI site and the other in the Spe I/ Sma I sites or vice versa . |
| 6 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 7 | He degrades the nobility of the place by turning it into a weekend retreat ; the human beings firmly under his sway — the Damsels , and the Artist — do not question his purpose , and he announces that his achievement will last for ever : |
| 8 | That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests . |
| 9 | She pulled out the kitchen trash hopper , a laundry-basket kind of affair on squeaky castors , and set Donald on his journey to duck heaven by dropping him into the grey plastic liner . |
| 10 | Despite being repeatedly arrested and brought back home , bruised and beaten by the police , she finally got to see the King by throwing herself into the road in front of the Royal car . |
| 11 | Estella and Miss Havisham reduce the reader 's sympathy towards Pip by turning him into a snob at the beginning and Magwitch helps to redeem Pip at the end by bringing out his loyalty . |
| 12 | A brave staff member believed he was risking his life by throwing it into the street . |
| 13 | Carbon dioxide could be rendered harmless as a greenhouse gas by pumping it into the sea , according to consultant physicist Raymond Harrowell . |
| 14 | Diana has helped Charles by bringing him into the modern era , teasing him and leavening his spirits , and keeping him young and abreast of young people 's thinking . |
| 15 | Downstairs , inside the house , Kalchu was preparing the cockerel by plunging it into a pan of boiling water , then plucking out its feathers by the handful . |
| 16 | The escape , made possible in part by the chemical explosion in Quinn of the Fury , is followed by a series of independent forays in which Quinn seizes a French sloop carrying hides by following it into a secret harbour and pretending he and his men are drunken sailors returning on board , rescues Royalist prisoners from a castle by skulking and climbing , seizes another French ship by disguising the prize vessel under his command as French , and outwits a pirate ship by means of a collision ( rescuing , by the way , a young Contessa who adds a romantic touch to the story ) . |
| 17 | Before preparing subsequent doses , succuss or shake the stock bottle by hitting it into the palm of your hand 8 to 12 times . |
| 18 | Employing the naively biographical paradigm of Gay Authorship , Brief Encounter shows Noel Coward displacing his own fears , anxieties and pessimism about the possibility of a fulfilled sexual relationship within an oppressively homophobic culture by transposing them into a heterosexual context . |
| 19 | Instead of using It ( a cleft structure ) , an identifying theme places an element in theme position by turning it into a nominalization using a wh-structure ( called a pseudo-cleft structure ) , as in What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity , or What was received by the book in China was a great deal of publicity . |
| 20 | The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ? |
| 21 | Artists in this tradition have always striven to celebrate the present by prolonging it into the future . |
| 22 | Despite , realistically , plenty of opportunity , there is no illicit sex between Nicholas and Alison until the pleasure of their union can be enhanced by Nicholas truly having replaced John by tricking him into a contrived " absence " . |
| 23 | Other stunts included the breaking up of Labour party meetings and vandalizing a Daily Herald van by driving it into the railings of a London church . |
| 24 | Now the row has burst into the open round the broad shoulders of Monsignor Bruce Kent , threatening to blast the career of that redoubtable cleric by forcing him into an invidious choice between his cloth and his commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) . |