Example sentences of "[verb] themselves into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large noble estates , sometimes helped by injections of finance from the compensation payments for the loss of labour services , transformed themselves into capitalist undertakings . |
| 2 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 3 | It is arguable that teacher expectations and behaviour could be creating an interactive process of low expectations , low achievements and black pupil resistance , although it is important to recognize that teacher expectations do not automatically translate themselves into self-fulfilling prophecies ( Short , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | In the wake of IBM 's fateful decision , the relative handful of customers that had not actively sought all the pricing data available were driven to plug themselves into new information sources . |
| 5 | Increasingly they are grouping themselves into multiple retail chains , as can be seen from Table 11.10 . |
| 6 | The questions linked , separated , twisted themselves into fantastic jumbles and finally slid over into his sleeping mind , so that he dreamed , terrifyingly , that he was opening a never-ending stream of boxes . |
| 7 | I could n't get rid of my disability , became more staunch in my socialist politics , got rid of my accent and was thankful when my parents put themselves into enormous debt and bought a tip of a house in Croydon . |
| 8 | It begins with a human circle , linked by the little fingers , swaying and chanting themselves into deep trance with the eyes closed . |
| 9 | The directors , in the example given previously , can not retrospectively convert themselves into secured creditors in respect of moneys which they have previously advanced without demanding security . |
| 10 | In the Sunday market the quality — popular division became even sharper than among the dailies when the qualities turned themselves into large scale Sunday magazines . |
| 11 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 12 | People even act as their own psychologists , splitting themselves into professional and client-subjects to do this . |
| 13 | It is hard to resist the pressure to use them , especially as some nuclear-power generators have tied themselves into long-term reprocessing contracts . |
| 14 | The great goods depots of London possess an importance superior even to that of the passenger termini themselves and furnish to the keen observer fields of study every whit as interesting as those afforded by the heterogeneous masses of humanity which daily pack themselves into express and local trains . |
| 15 | A number of COS district branches soon began to form themselves into separate committees for this purpose , and in 1902 a Central Industrial Bureau was opened which , under pressure from increased applications from boys as well as girls , addressed itself to both sexes . |
| 16 | Yet to remain competitive — maybe even to survive — they will have to convert themselves into information-based organizations , and fairly quickly . |
| 17 | For instance , his remarks in the ‘ Eighteenth Brumaire ’ and in correspondence with Weydemeyer , relating the ‘ immaturity ’ of the American working-class movement in the mid 19th century to the ‘ flux and interchange ’ whereby American proletarians were able to convert themselves into independent self-sustaining peasants . |
| 18 | Some find themselves into formal language while others remain always in the realm of slang . |
| 19 | When the Duke of Wellington was confronted by the realities of the steam locomotive he responded : ‘ I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use . ’ |
| 20 | 16.3 Reading takes pupils beyond first-hand experience : it enables them to project themselves into unfamiliar environments , times and cultures , to gain sympathetic understanding of other ways of life and to experience joy and sadness vicariously . |
| 21 | It arose most acutely in the United States which welcomed immigrants but also put pressure on them to turn themselves into English-speaking American citizens as soon as possible , since any rational citizen would wish to be an American . |
| 22 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 23 | Whether the Russian landed aristocracy , landowners like Tolstoi 's Count Rostov or Chekhov 's Mme Ranevskaya , were more or less likely to transform themselves into agrarian capitalist entrepreneurs than ante-bellum plantation owners , dreaming of Walter Scott , is quite another question . |
| 24 | The main independent cultural contribution of southern Italy in this period lay , however , in the sphere of philosophy : fifth-century followers of Pythagoras of Kroton , the mathematical and metaphysical theorist , formed themselves into ascetic cult-communities and became involved — sometimes violently — in the politics of the Italian poleis . |
| 25 | Professional clubs formed themselves into limited liability companies not to speculate in the entertainment business but to make legally secure the cost of providing facilities . |
| 26 | Settling down they formed themselves into small communities under one leader , this being the beginning of our village system as we know it now . |
| 27 | In the 1960s , in response to changes in social structure and expectations , and in the context of a party and interest-group world that would not embrace new interests and demands , large numbers of inner-city residents formed themselves into loose groups to press for changes in public policy and in the balance of the public-private provision of the basics for a decent life . |
| 28 | Apart from the distinctions they make in terms of membership in particular local communities , however , Shetlanders are reluctant to categorise themselves into different types of Shetlander . |
| 29 | Large successful corporations divide themselves into small companies and operating divisions . |
| 30 | Briefly , if a church , for example , wanted to raise money , the ladies of the congregation organised themselves into small groups , often into pairs , and each group distributed invitations to perhaps a dozen or fourteen friends to a tea to be held in the church hall or some other suitable place . |