Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] into a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McDonald's ' is typical of an old well-established firm which has been absorbed into a larger manufacturing group and modernized . |
| 2 | A final decision about segmentation would not be made until at least some words had been integrated into a higher level . |
| 3 | The Polish origins had been almost eroded , but not quite ; they had been overlaid with heavy Cockney , which , in turn , had been flattened into a classier accent as Steen climbed the social ladder . |
| 4 | My impression that I had been hurled into a coarser world was heightened at the beginning of each day , particularly one morning when I was on fire picket duty and had the sadistic pleasure of rattling the dustbin lids and shouting " wakey-wakey ! " along the corridors . |
| 5 | May I put some of the comments that have been made into a broader context . |
| 6 | The highly charged politics of national identity that have been occasioned by these developments have been transposed into a higher , shriller key by current concern over the appeal of a wide pan-European disposition tailored to the new range of possibilities that flow from tighter political and economic integration of the European Economic Community . |
| 7 | Public enterprises have been forced into a greater orientation to the market by increasing exposure to competition and a relaxation of their statutory monopolies : a strategy used most notably by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain . |