Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , by gum , their debut ‘ House Of Love ’ single bounced its way into the Top Ten . |
| 2 | They can be formed on land near the sea , in shallow lakes or indeed anywhere where it is possible for a large volume of water to find its way into the volcanic vent . |
| 3 | Weak on aesthetics it undoubtedly is , and yet curiously it is the only book on drama in education lucky enough to find its way into the impressive bibliography of the 1982 Calouste Gulbenkian publication on the Arts in Schools . |
| 4 | to keep ‘ important ’ issues off the agenda£ fails to take into account the diversity of media — magazines , journals , books , radio — which allow for an enormous amount of information to find its way into the public domain . |
| 5 | Were such matter to find its way into the domestic blue-film market , the Board argued , it could have a very real tendency to deprave and corrupt , not just those of 16 , but of any age , who had been encouraged to view such material in private . |
| 6 | But altogether , productivity has almost certainly been lower in services than in manufacturing by a significant margin and this involves a double irony : a major part of the improvement of productivity in manufacturing from the 1960s onwards resulted from a shake-out of labour much of which , in effect , found its way into the lower productivity services . |
| 7 | The essence of pristine Labour policy had of course , and largely through the influence of Tawney , found its way into the official Hadow Report of 1926 : ‘ Selection by differentiation takes the place of selection by elimination . ’ |
| 8 | Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency . |
| 9 | Reference to the production history of Falcon s/n 157 will confirm that the aircraft eventually found its way into the Canadian Armed Forces ( designated " CC117 " ) , where it was operated by the Airborne Sensing Unit ( ASU ) , from Uplands CFB , Ottawa , Ontario . |
| 10 | The first drug to be recognised for its antimalarial effects was quinine , which found its way into the British Pharmacopaea as early as 1677 . |
| 11 | The most famous tin-glazed pottery of Spain was lustre pottery ; it was also exported and found its way into the wealthy households of medieval Europe . |
| 12 | On May 24 the navy reopened its inquiry into the 1989 explosion on the battleship USS Iowa after new tests cast fresh doubt on its original finding that the disaster had been caused by a suicidal gunner [ see pp. 36604 ; 37410 ] . |
| 13 | The need for a ‘ god ’ in some universally acceptable form , and a religion to go with it , forces its way into the human conscience inexorably . |
| 14 | The factory , faced by demands from minority groups that it should not discharge its waste into the local river , will be unmoved by such considerations if its productivity and its economic survival depend upon keeping costs down . |
| 15 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 16 | The group is asking the commission to reopen its inquiry into the environmental consequences of the road and believes the case could still be referred to the European Court of Justice if the government is found to have infringed EC directives . |
| 17 | With this building and some rearrangement in existing rooms , the Science departments were allowed to expand , with Chemistry gaining half as much space again , and Physics three times the amount it had , by moving its laboratory into the old Art Room . |
| 18 | This fact , plus the ubiquitous veil of secrecy which covers military matters , has fuelled suspicion that the link has never been thoroughly broken and that plutonium produced in civil reactors has found its way into the military stockpiles . |
| 19 | The volunteers started work by hauling away an accumulation of rubbish which had found its way into the little lake . |
| 20 | The guide-lines for the course , as regards its fitting into the Chinese way of thinking , have been very gently imposed , and we are wondering whether we shall be as fortunate as this when we move to the other cities . |
| 21 | As early as 1967 an inner group of ministers was examining proposals for the modernization of Polaris to prolong its credibility into the 1990s . |
| 22 | A demon seizing a victim may not merely grab , but shoot its claw into the toothless mouth , throttling by the tongue . |
| 23 | The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct , the Ethics Committee , announced on March 8 that it was dropping its inquiry into the financial affairs and conduct of minority leader Newt Gingrich ( Rep. , Georgia ) . |
| 24 | Boulton & Watt 's beam engines employed large cylinders operating at low steam pressures , and McNaught 's expedient consisted of the addition of a small higher-pressure cylinder acting on the other half of the beam about midway along its length , with an appropriately shorter stroke , exhausting its steam into the original low-pressure cylinder . |
| 25 | The sunlight that inched its way into the stale gloom shed a tactless illumination on the threadbare carpets , the worn seats , the peeling gilt decor . |
| 26 | Hewlett-Packard Co moved in on Compaq Computer Corp yesterday , making its entry into the iAPX-86-based server business . |
| 27 | Object-oriented versions of AIX and OS/2 will also use ObjectStore subsets , and Object Design is currently negotiating to get its stuff into the IBM-Apple Computer Inc Taligent Inc object operating system effort . |
| 28 | The stolen car stopped at gates blocking its path into the neighbouring loyalist Tiger Bay area . |
| 29 | The long road to Wembley winds its way into the second round this weekend and cup romance takes us to Cheltenham to see the Town ; the Robins getting ready for their big day . |
| 30 | They knew , we knew and the police knew that the chance of such a case finding its way into the overloaded court system was minimal . |