Example sentences of "and be [verb] into a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and are translated into a work for academic and study for the purpose of general knowledge about the English language .
2 Data collected by this method are usually in the form of x , y co-ordinates , and are passed into a pattern recogniser , which will aim to produce characters , or a number of candidate characters as output , usually by matching against a database .
3 Some are modified to transmit electric impulses and are linked into a network which amounts to a primitive nervous system ; others are able to contract in length and so can be considered as simple muscles .
4 ‘ At this moment you 'd like to take a gamble and be transported into a world of sensual delight .
5 I remember coming off stage in Rio and being piled into a helicopter to take us back to the hotel .
6 He has crossed the line and is locked into a sequence of events that are by now way out of his control .
7 He goes to live in London with Herbert Pocket , and is turned into a gentleman , living an expensive but futile sort of existence , and becoming ashamed of Joe and his village origins .
8 One of the most stylish — and silliest — musicals ever made was Funny Face , a 1956 film in which Audrey Hepburn plays a Greenwich Village intellectual who travels to Paris and is transformed into a model for Quality magazine .
9 The body of an insect therefore presents a jointed structure which is an example of segmentation , and is divided into a series of successive rings variously known as segments , somites or metameres .
10 and be tamed into a ball ; the varnished panels
11 The miners ' strike was presented as a direct challenge to the authority of the government , and was made into a sticking-point beyond which the government would not be pushed .
12 Originally a Benedictine Abbey Church , which was destroyed by fire in 1120 , it was rebuilt soon after this much on the pattern of S. Mark 's in Venice and was made into a Cathedral in 1649 .
13 On 5 December he received 44.6 per cent of the vote and was forced into a runoff election against Mitterrand , who had come second with 31.7 per cent .
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