Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the shaman is exposed to the insidious effects of the fungus for too long he may eventually turn into a giant shaman mushroom . |
| 2 | The process should also feed into a formal review in which students , employers and the staff participate , to enable the team to produce an action plan . |
| 3 | Law firms could thus spread into a wider range of businesses , just as accountants have pushed into management consulting , and commercial banks into stockbroking . |
| 4 | And er if we could just go into a little bit about , this was in Hucknall ? |
| 5 | Writing from his prison cell in the Republic where he is serving 10 years for armed robbery , McGlinchey claimed he could easily tap into a central databank of RUC files . |
| 6 | Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there . |
| 7 | Fran ignored the remark , terrified that the conversation could fast deteriorate into a verbal battle if she let it , although she would have dearly loved to know what he meant . |
| 8 | Who knows , with the right song and promotion , she could even head into a harder , rockier realm . |
| 9 | A banquet could evidently develop into a nasty clash between the cook and the gardener . |
| 10 | The cat may even fall into a deep coma . |
| 11 | It was as if when she caught her breath she would necessarily break into a hysterical laughing and crying . |
| 12 | We were told later that the fraud was so enormous — a total of $10 million — that reconstruction was impossible , and that any money the majority shareholders could put in would soon disappear into a large hole . |
| 13 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |
| 14 | The expectation that the Afro-Caribbean and Asian minorities would simply blend into a homogeneous British or even English stew , perhaps adding some harmless spice , was revealed as not only hopelessly unrealistic but symptomatic of a form of racism which regarded ‘ Britishness ’ and ‘ Westernness ’ as the only touchstones of cultural value . |
| 15 | She would then go into a secret hiding place that only her family knew about . |
| 16 | The animal half , if isolated , will only develop into a simple hollow sphere . |
| 17 | The river rushes over rocks and boulders ; it will suddenly empty into a beautiful serene lake , tumble over rapids and waterfalls , meet impassable dams and at each bend of the river you will see different terrain and totally different conditions . |
| 18 | Take a Dominican anole from the south ( left ) , move it to the north , and chances are it will soon turn into a genuine northerner ( below ) . |
| 19 | Drivers will simply blow into a cigarette-sized tube and if chemical crystals inside turn blue it shows that they are over the limit . |
| 20 | It will then feed into a 22-km-long canal — some 25 metres wide and of an open , trapezoidal cross-section — running east to the Judean foothills . |
| 21 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 22 | A septic tank is an open system and depends on being sited where it can eventually discharge into a natural watercourse or soakaway . |
| 23 | One can rarely dip into a Pollini recording as a series of edited highlights ( except perhaps as a demonstration of superlative digital execution ) , as he rarely ever plays ‘ for the moment ’ ; one is irresistibly drawn towards hearing the whole work , as only then does the integrity of his vision register with its fullest potency . |
| 24 | The spadefoot has one of the fastest rates of development of any frog or toad , but it still has to undergo the process known as metamorphosis — the egg does not hatch into an adult , but into a tadpole , which has to reach a certain critical size before it can finally metamorphose into a tiny toad . |
| 25 | This close following can easily turn into a competitive game of tag . |
| 26 | Put it instead at the back of a base cabinet or high up on a wall cabinet , or in the space , if there is one , between wall cabinets and ceiling which you can always turn into a second tier of cabinets by adding fronts to match your other units . |
| 27 | Gradually this hardens and the animal can again venture into a hostile world . |