Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lou had allowed her coal-black hair to grow into a softer , more feminine style that flattered her small features . |
| 2 | The women there will tell you how all those jobs are defined by low pay in many cases , by low status , by very little opportunity to move into the high grades . |
| 3 | Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook . |
| 4 | It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation . |
| 5 | I was n't going to turn her out with nowhere to go , you know , young lady — but perhaps it 's a bit hard on an old lady to go into a new place after living in the same cottage most of her life . |
| 6 | ‘ Faced with the myriad opportunities for the concealment of fraudulent activities which companies and trusts provide , Parliament has given the Serious Fraud Office the power to call upon a suspected person to come into the open , and to disclose information which may incriminate him . |
| 7 | No scientist has yet discovered any means of inducing this creature to change into a different form ; but we need have no doubt that its ancestors were true amphibious salamanders . |
| 8 | In English and Englishness Brian Doyle describes a contemporary tendency of English teachers to retreat into a museum-like or ‘ monumental , role as professional curators of a residual ‘ national cultural heritage ’ . |
| 9 | Foreign ownership goes back just as far , in the sense that individuals such as Waldorf Astor and Max Aitken ( Lord Beaverbrook ) used foreign capital to buy into the English press . |
| 10 | It is not within the scope of this book to enter into a detailed explanation of the technique of the horn , but the fact should be firmly grasped that it is based on the possibility of producing by means of varying embouchure the upper partials of the harmonic series derived from a fundamental note , the pitch of which depends on the length of the tube . |
| 11 | She sat humbly in the cold church , making some effort to get into the right mood for the service . |
| 12 | At Woodside a ‘ Heritage ’ tramway is being built with two cars newly built to an old design by Hong Kong tramways and now being tested in Blackpool , on the one example of a street tramway of the old generation to survive into the light rail era . |
| 13 | The disclosure letter is just as important a part of the negotiations as the sale and purchase agreement , and it would be a mistake for extensive work to go into the due diligence exercise and subsequent negotiations of the sale and purchase agreement , only to be undone by an inadequate disclosure letter . |
| 14 | This month , with time at a premium , we 've taken a few short cuts to preparing delicious Christmas fare : we bought a cooked gammon to transform into a glorious centrepiece with a crunchy nut , honeyed glaze . |
| 15 | The eight-strong team of engineers and draughtsmen are the first outside tenants to move into the prestigious development , at Ingwell , near Whitehaven . |
| 16 | He had been sufficiently interested in imperial issues to drift into the Round Table orbit some time after his election to the House of Commons in 1910 ; and by 1916 his claims to employment were being urged on Milner at the War Office by the Round Table guru F.S. Oliver , who put him unambiguously in a class by himself , above Amery , Brand and Kerr , at the top of his list for preferment . |
| 17 | Econometricians are not , in my experience , very good at translating their findings into terms readily understood by those without at least A-level mathematics and statistics : those who are running their own consultancies also have an understandable reluctance to go into the full details of their equations and the modifications that may be required to fit equation and data more closely together . |
| 18 | An impressive pagoda-style feature towering above the main entrance area allows natural light to flood into the main access area . |
| 19 | The Turkish conquest of the Balkans impelled large numbers of Serbs and Bosnian Croats to flee into the neighbouring lands of Croatia , Slavonia and Dalmatia . |
| 20 | He tosses a few slow jabs at several male heads , then for a couple of seconds allows his black , shiny Florsheims to blur into the patented Ali shuffle . |
| 21 | The 1972 Act enabled these parishes to continue into the new system and also made provision for some small former boroughs or urban districts to continue with parish status . |
| 22 | It would take his coach at least two hours to reach Brussels , and he needed a good hour to change into the scarlet and gold finery of a British major-general . |
| 23 | Foulds hit an early 60 break in the fourth but Doherty 's reply was immediate when he knocked in a 55 clearance to move into a two frame lead at the interval . |
| 24 | But if in the maintained schools teachers become more like civil servants , this will afford an additional motive for many parents to move into the independent sector , valuing as many do the overall moral and social responsibility for their pupils that such schools assume . |
| 25 | The eggs , which are the same size as the adult male mite , take 3 to 4 days to hatch into the three-legged larva . |
| 26 | It sometimes makes good sense to get into a declining business . |
| 27 | ‘ I still think a team will need over 80 points to get into the top two . |
| 28 | It would be foolish and unseemly as well as counter-productive for the Prime Minister to enter into an undignified slanging match with him every time he does so . |
| 29 | Thirty-six competitors enjoyed a ‘ Gap ’ in the recent poor weather to get into the 19th dry . |
| 30 | It is therefore possible , if a black hole is present , for the virtual particle with negative energy to fall into the black hole and become a real particle or antiparticle . |