Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] into [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 2 | Their diligent enforcement of the Government 's industrial laws has helped to transform the role of the trade unions ; their role as guarantors of public order has led them into bitter conflict with pickets and demonstrators . |
| 3 | It could be only a very moderate charge , in the darkness , since any gallop could have put them into dire trouble over unseen obstacles , whinbushes , ditches and the like . |
| 4 | ( And even if the political will did exist , he doubted whether the institutions which would have to translate it into collective action were strong enough to do so . ) |
| 5 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |
| 6 | This happened first in Germany , when Georg Siemens , the founder and head of Germany 's premier bank , Deutsche Bank , saved the electrical apparatus company his cousin Werner had founded after Werner 's sons and heirs had mismanaged it into near collapse . |
| 7 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 8 | The question turned off Lomax 's interest like a tap that realises it had flooded itself into deep water . |
| 9 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 10 | Nothing else , for the rectory belonged to the church , and she had discovered that her late husband 's public generosity had run him into considerable debt . |
| 11 | The racial success story turns those who have made it into narrative role models for the next generation , who are pledged to follow in their footsteps ‘ one day ’ . |
| 12 | Yet it has often happened that attacks on such alternative groups , by established opinion , have shifted them into conscious opposition as distinct from conscious dissent or the offering of a conscious alternative . |
| 13 | It is hard to resist the pressure to use them , especially as some nuclear-power generators have tied themselves into long-term reprocessing contracts . |
| 14 | The Conservative government 's policies on taxation and welfare have brought it into increasing conflict with the Church of England . |