Example sentences of "[is] [verb] into a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The plan is to go into a neighbouring country … in this case Salisbury Plain … and evacuate civilians using soldiers to protect them .
2 from escaping through the top and if you 're i if it 's a fa you know , there 's some light or disturbance you and want to sleep and the best thing to do is to go into a light doze cos , you know , you ca n't do much else that 's cover your face .
3 The one we 're having is placed into a tiny gauze bag overnight with the calix of a freshly plucked lotus . ’
4 In any stream in which this kind of clay exists , large , stagnant shallow pools form above dams , and the main flow of water is diverted into a new course .
5 TO ENTER Romania is to sink into a bad dream .
6 The effluent from Belmont is treated by a sewage works which does not have the necessary filtering equipment to remove the chemical before it is discharged into a nearby river .
7 In other words , all the information for the knitting of the garment part is there , but is encoded into a short form .
8 The cutting ice Which all hearts dread We could have melted ; But now its dart Is frozen into A stubborn heart .
9 When water-depth decreases to 1.3 times wave-height , the wave is compressed , its steepness rises , and the orbital journey of a wave particle is squeezed into a tilted ellipse .
10 The standard tripod used for haymaking ( as earlier described ) is ideal for this purpose ; the middle leg is dropped into a one-foot-deep hole and the other two spread at right angles to the line of the fence .
11 Tufted carpets are much more economic to produce in that the pile is needled into a pre-woven backing .
12 Torque flow means the water is sucked into a 2p-sized hole in the base of the pump housing but never actually passes through the impeller , which is set to one side of the inlet chamber .
13 The uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism , which in Hobbes is resolved into a complete materialism , is resolved by Berkeley into a complete immaterialism in which God has a role far more crucial than in the standard seventeenth-century view .
14 This is built into a special housing to fit the filter box , often on or replacing the lid .
15 Now it is certainly true that a complex whole necessarily contains relations of subordination and domination if the presence of principal and secondary contradictions within it is made into a defining characteristic .
16 The iron is made into a high-resistivity material by adding silicon , and its cross-section is laminated as shown in Fig. 4.15 .
17 The privatization of state assets is channelled into a gradual process trying to attract foreign investment but slow in helping the emergence of a new middle-class of small entre-preneurs .
18 It is channelled into a Fallopian tube , with the aid of the finger-like projections which surround its aperture , and which are themselves covered by numerous cilia , resembling tiny eye-lashes .
19 In an account based on the Sanford-Garrod framework , we take it that plural reference is possible if more than one atomic entity is mapped into a single role-slot in an elicited representation .
20 At the end of the incubation period , the gel piece is transferred into a new plastic tray containing 300 ml of freshly made DMS-stop buffer ( 0.5 M β-mercaptoethanol , 150 mM Tris-HCl , pH 7.3 , 5 mM EDTA ) and shaken vigorously on a rocking platform for 10' at 37°C ( at this temperature DMS is rapidly hydrolysed accelerating its inactivation ) .
21 Another woman dreams she is strapped into a burning airplane .
22 It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look .
23 I should think it will not be long before the laboratory is turned into a commercial outfit .
24 It waves its magic wand and suddenly the pumpkin that is the British economy is turned into a glittering coach .
25 Killing two men at his friend Pat Garrett 's wedding , The Kid is turned into a hunted prey , cast aside by those he looks to for affection and Newman becomes a psychotic outsider .
26 Doctors have given warning that drug abuse in East Lothian is developing into a major health problem with worrying signs of a high level of needle sharing .
27 THE Echo Star Trophy series for senior racing cyclists is developing into a close battle following the Merseyside road race championships at Delamere .
28 Commenting on the visit , said , ‘ The Minister was interested to see how AEA is developing into a commercially-sustainable business .
29 The West German boom , which started with Boris Becker 's success at Wimbledon four years ago and was echoed by the prodigious achievements of Steffi Graf in winning the Grand Slam and Olympic gold last year , is developing into a national industry .
30 Charming people are not threatening and the heritage of imperial mythology is incorporated into a modern picture : ‘ Surprisingly , there 's a very strong Roman Catholic element ; the churches are packed on Sundays ; the missionaries must have done their stuff . ’
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