Example sentences of "were absorb into [art] " in BNC.

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1 He had been sales director for the major British manufacturer and had left two or three years ago when they were absorbed into a large industrial conglomerate .
2 First Fruits and Augmentations , together with General Surveyors , were absorbed into a reformed Exchequer .
3 The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group .
4 Last week Frankfurt finalised the WOMBAT negotiations with Albania and Mongolia , and their currencies were absorbed into the Global Numismatic Unit ( GNU ) , so named because one specimen was ‘ minted ’ ( made in metallic hard-copy form ) into what our grandmothers used to know as a ‘ coin ’ .
5 After the First World War , the Cassel had almost completely vanished and its remnants were absorbed into the Furnes-Ambacht .
6 One by one , other boys were absorbed into the empire .
7 These were Styria ( Steiermark ) , acquired by the Habsburgs in 1278 ; Carniola ( Krain ) and Carinthia ( Kärnten ) , which came to the Habsburgs in 1335 ; and Trieste , Görz-Gradisca and Istria , which were absorbed into the expanding Austrian realm later in the fourteenth century .
8 Many Slovenes were absorbed into the dominant German culture and into the Austro-German nobility .
9 In 1926 both United Alkali and Brunner , Mond were absorbed into the newly created Imperial Chemical Industries , of which Muspratt 's son ( Sir ) Max Muspratt [ q.v. ] became a director .
10 but erm erm anyway the erm children were absorbed into the schools of some sort
11 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 .
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