Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S biotechnology company , Celltech , is making a pitch at a £2000 million market to pull itself into the black . |
| 2 | Now , it was reaching out , spiralling its essence down towards the wormhole in the fabric of the Dark , ready to feed itself into the earthly plane , to become one with the Vessel . |
| 3 | However , the group managed to put itself into a position to take advantage of the surge in bookings which followed the ending of the Gulf war last year and the demise of International Leisure Group . |
| 4 | The hoverspeeder , its motors still idling , was attempting to wedge itself into the hole in the wall which Daak must have made with the vehicle 's front thrusters . |
| 5 | WHISPERS of a takeover of a British building society have been circulating in the City since the spring when the Abbey National won the overwhelming backing of its savers and borrowers to convert itself into a bank . |
| 6 | Eager to lessen its dependence on the highly regulated and increasingly competitive British telecoms market , BT has been struggling to turn itself into a ‘ one-stop-shop ’ provider of global telecoms services for multinationals . |
| 7 | The restoration caused no trouble to the East India Company , which was quite soon able to turn itself into a distinctly royalist body and was given a rather wider range of political powers than it had possessed before . |
| 8 | British Gas since privatization , and I think rightly so , and understandably , has had a defence policy against this government , and that defence policy is to turn itself into a multi-national energy supplier . |
| 9 | But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so . |
| 10 | A town best known for its links with the railways is trying to turn itself into a garden city . |
| 11 | This body was to turn itself into the Labour Party in 1906 . |
| 12 | This lack of reflectiveness and disinclination to make policy has contributed to the failure of the Interregional Group of Deputies , an informal club of MPs , to turn itself into an effective parliamentary opposition . |
| 13 | This is essentially a roving , stultifying , incoherent orgy of images that leads Taniguchi 's body to transform itself into a mechanical colossus . |
| 14 | Strategic partnerships with software companies are the order of the day at Compaq Computer Corp as it tries to transform itself into a much more broadly-based systems manufacturer , and according to Computerworld , the latest is with Oracle Corp . |
| 15 | Civic Alliance , a coalition of extra-parliamentary opposition groups , played a major role in the anti-government strikes and protests , and in July 1991 Civic Alliance decided to transform itself into a political party . |
| 16 | Does it really wish to dissolve itself into a European federation , as many of its intellectuals claim , or does it still have specifically Greek aims to pursue in the Balkans and the Middle East ? |
| 17 | The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till . |
| 18 | She had even felt her mouth begin to twist itself into a grin … . |
| 19 | A typical set up costs less than £1000 and MK aims to price itself into a new market between simple time switches and expensive custom-built computer-based energy management systems . |
| 20 | The problem is that the movie is so desperate to make itself into a positive romance , ideal mutual learning process and overall success story that finally it begins to resemble one of those correspondence-school ads on the back of US comics : get some knowledge , triple your income , rise rapidly in your chosen field . |
| 21 | Given the diversity of membership within both organisations , neither was likely to metamorphose itself into a different and more integrated organisation . |