Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] into an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Gordon Thomas 's evidence to the Royal Commission it is obvious that he had carried out much research into an improved canal , including technical planning , estimates of costs and market studies into the expectations of more traffic . |
| 2 | Tabitha 's headset suddenly locked into an ambient channel and began to tinkle with tinny salsa . |
| 3 | The words are organized around symmetrical pairs ( grace/wretch ; lost/found ; blind/see ) and the tune , at least in its best known version , not only divides into an open/closed parallelism , through its cadence structure , but within this , the subsidiary phrases form complementary pairs ; moreover , the overall pitch contour follows the arch shape typical of this song type ( see Ex. 1.1 ) . |
| 4 | It 's a mild type , but if not treated it could suddenly develop into an acute form with increased coughing , loss of appetite , fever and fast breathing . ’ |
| 5 | Mainly middle-aged women with their daughters , they all wore hats and gloves ; everyone seemed to know everyone else and the chattering and laughter only subsided into an expectant hush after the chief vendeuse had discreetly clapped her hands twice . |
| 6 | This rosy view of rural life — no mention of manual toil , poor housing , low wages — was easily developed into an outright contempt for business and industry . |
| 7 | A sneak thief can easily dip into an open handbag ! |
| 8 | Immediately behind the Treib-haus a good footpath leads up to the left , soon passing into an asphalted track which enters the TreibSeelisberg vehicle road . |
| 9 | Weeks later , he had finally moved into an independent flat . |
| 10 | Each of the words in the sentence will be recognised , but they are not easily integrated into an underlying meaning . |
| 11 | Life for Jack Rothera soon settled into an interesting routine and nothing untoward happened to disturb the smooth operation of his signal box . |
| 12 | You get the feeling you 've just walked into an alternative universe where L7 , free of the Women In Rock tag , reign supreme . |
| 13 | Founded on this 18th-century anecdotal evidence , the argument soon degenerates into an inconclusive oh-yes-they-can , oh-no-they-ca n't shouting match . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it soon degenerates into an unconvincing whodunit . |
| 15 | He looked like a man who has just stepped into an empty lift-shaft . |
| 16 | She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line . |
| 17 | A wry and comical early cynicism rapidly transforms into an overwhelming sense of sourness . |
| 18 | They developed a tremendous belief in their own capabilities and the partnership quickly developed into an obsessive quest . |
| 19 | This chemical is usually turned into an odourless substance , but some unfortunate carriers of a faulty gene can not do this — and the unaltered chemical is secreted in breath and sweat , causing the sufferer to smell strongly of fish . |
| 20 | It seems as if I have been here a lot longer than a few years , and I do not think that I could ever fit into an institutional regime again . |
| 21 | MANCHESTER UNITED yesterday settled into an uneasy peace after a face-saving operation by which Martin Edwards and Michael Knighton mutually agreed to tear up the contract that would have sold the club to Knighton . |
| 22 | The evening will usually develop into an informal session of communal singing in which groups contribute their own original ( and adapted ) poetry and song about their own struggles etc . |
| 23 | In Vienna , the radical challenge of such a raw aesthetic of the instincts was rather quickly recuperated into an unchallenging baroque and decorative aesthetics . |
| 24 | If you held on the forward stick , the nose down attitude would increase and the model would move away from you at ever increasing speed and things would rapidly develop into an uncontrollable situation for the novice . |
| 25 | His vessel , the Foresight , played a major part in the taking of the huge East Indian carrack Madre de Dios , the richest single prize ever brought into an English port . |
| 26 | What starts off as a bit of a laugh could quickly turn into an embarrassing muddle . |
| 27 | It looks like a sagging , browny-grey jelly that fairly rapidly decays into an unpleasant mush . |
| 28 | The waste from kitchen sinks also discharged into an open gully frequently the same one as the waste pipe . |
| 29 | It also entered into an open-ended commitment to incorporate into British law all future community legislation in those areas where the Community has competence , and to make such a law virtually unamendable by our domestic Parliament . |
| 30 | Another Israeli stipulated that in the event of a defeat in a vote of confidence , the existing Cabinet was automatically transformed into an interim government , with all ministers retaining their portfolios . |