Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have argued elsewhere ( 1989 , pp. 169–71 ) , the temple functioned rather like a great medieval abbey , drawing and re-allocating large revenues from the surrounding area and thereby developing into a major centre of wealth and power . |
| 2 | It , too , split with the Roman orthodoxy and eventually coalesced into the Coptic Church . |
| 3 | In this way the Church , as in many other parts of the western empire , would have formed the bridge by which a moderately civilized Romano-British community was maintained and eventually transformed into an English one . |
| 4 | Outlawed by Stalin in 1946 because of suspected links with Ukrainian nationalism , and forcibly incorporated into the Russian Orthodox Church , the Uniate Church had continued in secret . |
| 5 | J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length . |
| 6 | A cutting is simply a length of stem top growth — with some plants it is a soft-tissue tip , with others a more mature hard-wood section — which , when inserted into soil or a suitable growing medium , and sometimes helped and encouraged by the presence of artificial hormones , will fight for life by producing roots , and so grow into a new individual plant . |
| 7 | If it does not facilitate economic growth and expansion then it limits its capacity to raise taxes and so cuts into the public revenue on which its own power depends . |
| 8 | And after a number of false dawns , it seems the private insurance industry will shortly be able to offer some sort of long term care insurance product — if it succeeds conventional health and social services could be put out to tender , and perhaps turned into a commercial operation . |
| 9 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 10 | The golden rule is to begin gently and not to plunge into a sudden regime of vigorous exercise . |
| 11 | I 'd be a complete idiot if I thought that I could go through life and not bounce into the occasional person who did n't have my welfare at heart , and I 'm no idiot . |
| 12 | But doing the whole thing — removing daytime clothes , putting on special sleeping garments , emptying the bladder , cleaning the teeth and finally getting into the purpose-built sleeping furniture — is something that is only done in the bedrooms specially built for the purpose . |
| 13 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 14 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 15 | Blue Velvet starts with things in the grass eating each other , continues in a surreal Norman Rockwell setting of red fire engines and sunny weather , and finally unfolds into the sexual violence of Hopper and Rossellini 's scenes ( whose use of blue velvet is not one Bobby Vinton had envisaged ) and the sheer terror of MacLachlan 's night ride into hell . |
| 16 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 17 | It was difficult to believe that the boxes had been removed , then replaced and even more difficult to credit that a match from either of the chained boxes had been struck , then carried lit and precariously flickering into the Little Vestry and used to burn the diary . |
| 18 | So it 's going to be more and more moving into the real area as opposed to our fantasies about what the world 's like at this particular moment . |
| 19 | Women themselves are more and more socialized into the male interpretation of these female blood mysteries . |
| 20 | He ignored it and quickly stepped into a waiting official car . |
| 21 | The aim of successive American administrations had been to build up the strength of the most vulnerable states in the area — those known until the Second World War as French Indo-China and later divided into the separate states of Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia . |
| 22 | The focal point is the château of Auvers-sur-Oise , built in the Italianate manner in 1635 for Zannoby Liony , banker to Maria de' Medici and her court , and later transformed into a French-style residence . |
| 23 | The direct muscles ( Fig. 57 ) are typically the epipleural and axillary muscles and generally consist of four pairs : ( a ) the 1st anterior extensor arising usually from the sternal region and attached to the basalar sclerite ( p. 54 ) ; ( b ) the and anterior extensor arising from the rim of the coxa , just in front of its pleural articulation , and similarly inserted into the basalar sclerite ; ( c ) the posterior extensor arising from the rim of the coxa , just behind its pleural articulation , and inserted into the subalar sclerite ; ( a ) the flexor arising from the pleural ridge and inserted into the 3rd axillary sclerite . |
| 24 | With a friendly pat on his arm , she went off to join the dancing , and practically walked into the waiting Feargal . |
| 25 | Leaving the museum and instantly stepping into the twentieth century again is a strange experience . |
| 26 | We followed on to the patio and spontaneously broke into an impromptu dance in our bare feet on the cold concrete , much to the delight of the crowd ’ . |
| 27 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 28 | If your business creates flyers , brochures , catalogues , price lists or anything that involves the combination of text , graphics , illustrations and even photographs into a single document you will need page makeup software . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , he got sculpted and frescoed and painted and even woven into the bloody Bayeux tapestry dressed as a Norman soldier . |
| 30 | ‘ Betrothed ? ’ she managed , and immediately fell into a helpless fit of coughing which sent another stab of pain through her stomach . |