Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] into a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get a friend to raise the blade vertically upwards to simulate crashing into a hidden rock in the stopper . |
| 2 | Over recent years much work has been done to promote more positive images of women in mathematics , but this does not seem to have developed into a comparable awareness concerning race or class . |
| 3 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
| 4 | Wilkinson , though , was unwilling to get drawn into a slanging match yesterday . |
| 5 | In times of rising money wages , therefore , workers must first decide whether or not the real wage is rising ( problem ( a ) ) , and secondly decompose any increase in the real wage which may be suspected to have occurred into a permanent component , eliciting minimal labour supply response , and a temporary component , which could elicit a significant rise in the supply of labour services ( problem ( b ) ) . |
| 6 | The person who makes the arrangements with the funeral director may be considered to have entered into a binding contract , and become responsible for the cost , even if they are not related to the deceased . |
| 7 | But she wanted Clive to get dumped into a grand guignol Devil 's Island with whip-wielding guards , running filth in the cells and neanderthal yard bosses . |
| 8 | The rest of her body seemed to have melted into a useless tangle of arms and legs . |
| 9 | His mind seemed to have gone into a paralysing panic . |
| 10 | The second impression is probably one of childishness and simplicity ; we seem to have strayed into a non-adult world — is it comparable , as some have suggested , to the world of Blake 's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience ? |
| 11 | But even if the majority of Asian states recognise a link between the political aspirations of non-alignment and the broader goals of the revived Soviet ‘ pan-Asian security ’ scheme they are unlikely to permit themselves to become drawn into a new structure of strategic accords in Asia presided over by Moscow which could enable the USSR to press for more direct relations of military alignment in the future . |
| 12 | It may take a little while for the bowel motions to become settled into a regular pattern . |