Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [vb pp] into a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Photography has developed into a weapon of resistance in the constant struggle for survival , ’ Mr Müller said .
2 ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’
3 Taylor saw for himself on Saturday how the 24-year-old Aston Villa flyer has matured into a player of genuine international potential .
4 A stolen car has smashed into a bus full of passengers , and burst into flames .
5 Founded in 1979 by two women in Askham Grange prison , Clean Break has grown into an organisation which , in addition to producing high-quality touring shows commissioned from leading playwrights , also operates an extensive theatre training programme for women ex-offenders .
6 By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available .
7 ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence .
8 ( 3 ) A licensing board shall not refuse an application for the renewal of a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 4 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the manager is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the rules as to the persons entitled to use the canteen have not been observed or that the canteen has in other respects been improperly conducted ; or ( c ) that the manager or the body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement of the kind mentioned in paragraph ( d ) of section 41(1) of this Act .
9 The construction perhaps derives some small support from Part IV which provides that ‘ concentrate of poppy-straw ’ means the material produced [ commentator 's italics ] when poppy-straw has entered into a process for the concentration of its alkaloids . ’
10 The college has fallen into a state of such disrepair since it was closed down that I doubt if anyone could truthfully class it as that . ’
11 ‘ The whole damned village has entered into a conspiracy to protect me !
12 From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures .
13 An investigation has begun into an arson attack on a school .
14 An investigation has begun into an accident which killed a police motorcycle instructor .
15 An investigation has started into an attack on a pony which was left dead and mutilated in a field .
16 They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them .
17 Composed variously of opus sectile ( marbles in a variety of geometric shapes ) , opus alexendrinum ( large slabs of precious oriental marbles ) and opus tessellatum ( pictorial designs made from tesserae , like mosaic ) , over the centuries the pavement has buckled into a surface far from level and has suffered from atmospheric pollution as well as wear and tear of daily use .
18 But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ .
19 Since I married again , I have had more children , but my second wife has turned into a shadow . ’
20 Her back has bunched into a hump as an insult .
21 This is set out as follows : ( 2 ) Where a person has entered into a contract after a misrepresentation has been made to him otherwise than fraudulently , and he would be entitled , by reason of the misrepresentation , to rescind the contract , then , if it is claimed , in any proceedings arising out of the contract , that the contract ought to be or has been rescinded , the court or arbitrator may declare the contract subsisting and award damages in lieu of rescission , if of the opinion that it would be equitable to do so , having regard to the nature of the misrepresentation and the loss that would be caused by it if the contract were upheld , as well as to the loss that rescission would cause to the other party .
22 Radioactive water has leaked into a reservoir from a nuclear power plant near Yekaterinburg in Russia .
23 Indeed this emphasis has persisted into a period where , in the new media , large-scale organizations are in fact available for analysis .
24 If the petitioner has received any payment from the debtor since the petition was presented or the debtor has entered into an arrangement with the petitioner for the securing or compounding of the debt , the affidavit must state what dispositions of property the debtor has made so as to pay the debt or secure or compound for it , whether any property disposed of was the property of the debtor himself or some other person , and if the property was that of the debtor himself , whether the disposition was made with the approval of the court ( r 6.32(2) ) .
25 Whatever view is preferred , where a State has entered into a treaty on behalf of an individual , or a group of individuals , it is self-evident that those individuals have an interest in its performance or non-performance .
26 In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions .
27 Another delightful , old form in which the calyx has mutated into a flower so that one flower sits inside another .
28 Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak .
29 A REAL life My Little Pony has moved into an Essex animal park after being rescued from appalling conditions and almost certain death .
30 The company has entered into a research agreement with the Royal Postgraduate Medical School for the development of polymers for Aids treatment .
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