Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] into [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent case on settlorship is Butler v Wilden 61 TC 666 where shares in effectively a shell company were placed into the names of two children who paid the appropriate price for the same but with the company being built up by two brothers Graham and Gary . |
| 2 | Bukharin was making clear the distinction between the period when means of production were gathered into the hands of certain groups , who then used them as capital and thereby began the process of the accumulation of capital , and reproduction o f capitalist relations of production . |
| 3 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
| 4 | Protective monocles were squeezed into the orbits of the combatants ' eyes . |
| 5 | We needed young men who were dragooned into the services in the fourteen/eighteen war and erm who never came back , and we needed a lot of them . |
| 6 | ‘ Hooligans ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ were thrust into the headlines in the wake of a turbulent August Bank Holiday celebration in London which had resulted in unusually large numbers of people being brought before the courts for disorderly behaviour , drunkenness , assaults on police , street robberies and fighting . |
| 7 | Clients of one firm who were pushed into the shares of a restaurant company were pulled out of them once the price started to rise . |
| 8 | The lines began to shake and the two flags that were pushed into the heaps of stones soon fell over , but Bobbie ran across and picked up one of them . |
| 9 | The building was almost unrelievedly functional , although some mural decorations were incorporated into the corners of the concourse and some simple ornamentation appeared above the lifts . |
| 10 | Illness or disease could result from ignoring such strictures and cattle could become ill if stones from an ancient site were incorporated into the walls of their shelter . |
| 11 | They were forbidden by law to return to within thirty kilometres of their estates , and their houses were turned into the offices of state farms , rest homes for party bosses or factory workers , schools , mad-houses , orphanages or just left to crumble . |
| 12 | During the heart transplant epidemic which swept the so-called developed world following Dr Christiaan Barnard 's first Cape Town adventure , several crude pumps were sewn into the chests of unfortunate American citizens , all of whom promptly succumbed . |
| 13 | In order to conceal weapons , secret pockets were sewn into the linings of coats . |
| 14 | Politically , relations remained tense for much of this middle period , sufficiently so to affect economic links between England and France , and England was allied with the semi-independent feudatories of the French Crown , Burgundy and Brittany , on a number of occasions until they were absorbed into the lands of the Valois dynasty in 1477 and 1492 respectively . |
| 15 | but erm erm anyway the erm children were absorbed into the schools of some sort |
| 16 | His hands were stuffed into the pockets of his camouflage jacket ; his head — short-haired , these days — was down . |
| 17 | He was dressed in a pair of well-worn-looking jeans that were stuffed into the tops of his black rubber boots , with a thick roll-neck sweater , a dark navy blue , beneath the battered-looking dark green waterproof jacket . |
| 18 | People used to tell their dreams , lurid ones , sexy ones , when we were crammed into the locker-rooms during wet breaks . |
| 19 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 20 | The World Bank has admitted that many of the projects it funded in Brazil during the 1970s and 80s resulted in massive environmental degradation and the eviction of over 100,000 poor farmers and their families , many of whom were forced into the shanty-towns of major cities . |
| 21 | Athelstan and Philomel pressed forward though , for a while , both were forced into the shadows of the overhanging houses as a group of aldermen rode pompously down the street . |
| 22 | Some indeed were heavily decorated ; at Hedenham in Cambridgeshire the table had seven legs , while at Townstall in Devon the bulbous-shaped legs were carved into the forms of allegorical beasts . |
| 23 | The dried slurry and coke were loaded into the kilns from the top , a series of temporary walkways being formed for the wheelbarrows . |
| 24 | Such a quest necessarily involved a process of selection and categorisation in which the constituent elements of the world were divided into the forces of Good and the forces of Evil ; those working with him , those working against him ; those working for one class , those working for another . |
| 25 | He was pressed into the ranks of the northern army , ‘ whereby he might somewhat be instructed of the difference between the sitting quietly in his house , and the travail and danger which others daily do sustain' . |
| 26 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 27 | A gateway designed by Inigo Jones in 1621 , was given by Sir Hans Sloane of Chelsea , to Lord Burlington , in 1738 , and it was incorporated into the gardens of his Chiswick House . |
| 28 | The parents were speaking as five survivors of the tragedy left hospital amid emotional scenes , and an inquest was opened into the deaths of the teenage victims . |
| 29 | She was helped into the gardens of paradise by a number 33 bus , which had reversed over her while trying to execute a three-point turn outside the Polka Theatre , but some people still claimed that her death was , in part anyway , due to a broken heart . |
| 30 | For example it was packed into the holds of ships sailing to the New World , to satisfy the expatriates ' desire for Spanish tableware in their overseas posting . |