Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] into [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAIDSTONE United are set to fold today just three years after being elected into the Football League . |
| 2 | A PARASCENDER drowned last night after being blown into the sea during a flight from cliffs . |
| 3 | AT CONSERVATIVE Central Office , the Prime Minister expressed his confidence in winning a clear overall majority , though only after being drawn into a discussion on how a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition leading to proportional representation and devolution for Scotland would irrevocably change the face of Britain . |
| 4 | Tens of thousands of Armenians died of thirst and starvation after being forced into the north Syrian desert on the long march south . |
| 5 | He had maintained that position when asked for a third time after being put into an ambulance . |
| 6 | ‘ It is a miracle they are still alive after being thrown into the air , ’ he said . |
| 7 | But lucky Craig Harris escaped with bruises and minor burns after being thrown into the air as he accidently touched a live wire attached to overhead power cables . |
| 8 | So at that time that could of been taken into the context of , or one anyway , going to the same place |
| 9 | Sometimes in the evenings she had too strong a sense of being locked into the life of the farmhouse , even with the door continuously open on the summer yard , her brother away in the fields , her mother stumbling about the place with buckets , leaning on the table or the back of a chair whenever she stood to talk . |
| 10 | There is yet another vast area of human experience wherein the need to condense many vague and widely varied beliefs and hopes into a single credible interpretation capable of being incorporated into a definition of ‘ god ’ , which is of immeasurable importance . |
| 11 | An auger works in much the same way , but instead of being pushed into the soil , it has a corkscrew end which can be twisted down into the earth . |
| 12 | There 's an uneasy sense of being lulled into an acceptance of the unacceptable in Gregory 's work . |
| 13 | Our review guitar is a Manson Classic S of the back-routed design — which means that the pickups are mounted straight into the body , instead of being built into the scratchplate in the traditional manner ( although you can order that , too , if you wish ) . |
| 14 | They would trudge up the mine 's track before dawn , heads bowed before the onslaught of a sleet laden gale , fearful of being dashed into the chasm down which the Church Beck roared unseen . |
| 15 | Within hours of being in the office I was already hating the drudgery of being plugged into a machine . |
| 16 | NEWTOWNABBEY Council is to be asked to throw its weight behind a campaign to save one of the borough 's best-loved beauty spots from the threat of being turned into a site for housing . |
| 17 | The obstacle to disarmament in this case is not ambitions of superiority but the fear on each side of being tricked into a position of inferiority . |
| 18 | Despite killing more than 1m of their countrymen between 1975 and 1979 , and despite refusing to submit themselves to the vote , they still have a chance of being invited into the government after the election . |
| 19 | You should watch out for any fish that may harass all of the other inmates to the point of serious damage ; or for one particular fish being harassed by the rest of its companions to the point of being shoved into a corner . |
| 20 | She has no sense of her own sexuality — which stimulates the clerk — or of the value of her sexuality : though promised to her husband it becomes an easy counter to pay on the threat of being changed into an animal . |
| 21 | BRITISH troops are on the brink of being sucked into a war in the blood-stained Balkans . |
| 22 | ‘ I remember , ’ Frank said bleakly , with the familiar sensation of being sucked into a morass . |
| 23 | ‘ The inert waste from the Sainsbury 's site in Alton , delivered some five weeks ago , is still standing in nine feet-plus piles some 50 yards from the tip instead of being dumped into the pit on the day of delivery . ’ |
| 24 | James Courtney from Dundrod only broke his wrist and suffered severe bruising of his back and shoulders , despite being hurled into a field backwards as he skidded off the road . |
| 25 | Normally when you start water-skiing , you are lying in the water with your skis up in the air and the boat goes slowly away and you slowly come up , but this was like being catapulted into the water . |
| 26 | It 's like being zipped into a sponge bag — yuck . |
| 27 | It was urging people to join a group trying ‘ to prevent our countryside from being turned into a bloodbath for the amusement of the cruel and the wicked ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 29 | The good news is that , aside from being squashed into a tour van , the Kitchens Of Distinction are back on top form again after the various disasters surrounding their last UK tour . |
| 30 | Most fare very badly in captivity and are voluntarily banned from being brought into the country by most of the large importers . |