Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 95% completed pool is delivered to the site with all the fittings attached , ready to be positioned into a prepared excavation . |
| 2 | The trick must be to allow the Soviet Union 's ideological humiliation not to be turned into a strategic one . |
| 3 | In about eight to twelve hours the cheese will be firm enough to be turned into a deepish glass dish or large soup plate . |
| 4 | The Falklands veteran vessel , HMS Plymouth , permanently berthed at Wallasey docks , is to be turned into a floating studio theatre especially for the production . |
| 5 | Colditz Castle , the notorious Second World War prison camp , is to be turned into a luxury hotel with plans for a casino in a wing once used as living quarters by the German guards . |
| 6 | These runs of continuous numbers have to be turned into a single sequence , starting from 1 . |
| 7 | If the bedroom you occupy is large enough to be turned into a comfortable bed-sitting-room , or if you have your own private sitting-room in the house , you can avoid trouble and confrontation by entertaining friends there , and that will be the end of it ; but if not , after a tactful explanation of your needs to your parent , you should get to the point of suggesting clearly that she might agree to retire to her room for a few hours sometimes when your friends come to the home ( after you have all shared a meal together first , if she wishes ) . |
| 8 | Such a re-examination is particularly necessary , if social psychology is to be turned into a historical science , as discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 9 | In the mid-1950 's nuclear fission had still to be turned into a commercial power source . |
| 10 | Carol Browner , the new director of the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , has been given cabinet rank and the agency itself is to be turned into a full cabinet-level department , a move that requires legislation . |
| 11 | Evolutionism provided a parallel source of materialist concepts , but needed to be turned into a laboratory-based subject if it was to fit the new model . |
| 12 | The rules mean any child under three in the front seat of any vehicle will have to be strapped into a special restraining belt . |
| 13 | It only requires behaviour to be broken down into some specifics , the equivalent of building blocks , and for those specifics to be cast into a coherent plan of action . |
| 14 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 15 | He laid aside his paper and allowed himself to be lulled into a rhythmical vacuity by the swaying of the ambulance . |
| 16 | Had she allowed herself to be lulled into a false sense of security ? |
| 17 | Something was wrong ; she should have listened to her instincts , not allowed herself to be lulled into a false security by the normal appearance of the flat . |
| 18 | But the father-of-five fought back to come off his life support machine and improve enough to be moved into a general ward . |
| 19 | Still , it was part of the day 's detritus , to be swept into a tidy heap when he had time . |
| 20 | When he came out , Kahn was advancing the thesis that thermo-nuclear war had to be made into a practical proposition , because a totally disarmed world which renounced war was unbelievable . |
| 21 | The ideal " School " of English literature will … not , for a moment , allow itself to be made into a mere branch of History . |
| 22 | At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture , but a payment of two rhinu left them astoundedly agreeing that perhaps He was n't as holy as all that . |
| 23 | As well as campaigning for Oban to be made into a national park , WWF is also working closely with the government to nurture sustainable forest management . |
| 24 | The most crucial aspect is whether we want our currency to be locked into a stable currency in Europe or whether we want to be able to devalue our currency in the hope of averting unemployment . |
| 25 | Similarly , immense skill and sensitivity are required on the part of the teacher , if very young children 's natural enthusiasms for story structures and role-play are to be developed into a full and active engagement with a constantly expanding range of texts or literary genres . |
| 26 | At a later stage — initially set for March 1981 — it was to be developed into a full European Monetary Fund . |
| 27 | The stables , owned by Darlington man Cliff Forster , are set to be developed into a top class riding centre . |
| 28 | This half and all the top floor are to be converted into a self-contained cottage for guests . |
| 29 | The parachute has to be packed into a realistic pack — no self-respecting dropnik could be expected to cast itself off with a bundle of nylon in its arms . |
| 30 | Even streets were too extravagant of space : courts and alleys enabled more houses to be packed into a given area : and where , in Deering 's day , the apple or the cherry orchard had blown in springtime , courts of back-to-back houses now faced each other across an open drain ( Fig. 13 ) . |