Example sentences of "by [verb] them into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because all shareholders will benefit if performance improves ( either through Usurping present management or by frightening them into improved performance ) , why should any rational individual be the one to incur the costs ; why not leave it to someone else ? |
| 2 | The government also proposed a new media policy , giving the television service , Doordarshan , and All-India Radio autonomy by turning them into public corporations , similar to the status enjoyed in the United Kingdom by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) . |
| 3 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
| 4 | The average builder will probably have put in just a single central pendant light in each room , so we have to add extra lights by plugging them into precious socket outlets ( precious because the builder does n't put enough of these in either ! ) . |
| 5 | The clubs reacted by increased policing of the fans and by herding them into segregated areas of the terraces . |
| 6 | Fred Brimacombe , lobster seller , Plymouth , on the city council 's proposal to stop fishermen killing lobsters by throwing them into boiling water . |