Example sentences of "be pushed into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The substrate on which the pellets are resting is important , and pellets on soft soil could be pushed into the soil rather than being crushed . |
| 2 | The whole drawer can then be pushed into the basement . |
| 3 | According to an article in the paper 's journal , the Fascist Gazette , communists were ‘ wild beasts ’ whose ‘ hell 's spawn ’ should be pushed into the sea . |
| 4 | As always , however , these are nicely balanced by examples of people who have gone ‘ a bridge too far ’ , stuck with totally unobtainable ambitions and allowed the whole company to be pushed into the pursuit , usually , of a product dream which the market has quite clearly rejected and which can not be made to fly . |
| 5 | In his discussion of the metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ , Black describes the work of metaphor in discursive terms : ‘ Any human traits that can without undue strain be talked about in ‘ wolf-language ’ will be rendered prominent , and any that can not will be pushed into the background' ( 41 ) . |
| 6 | Mains lights are available from good garden centres and d-i-y stores , and the most versatile type for creative garden lighting is a spotlight with a spike that can be pushed into the ground and a head that swivels so that the beam can be adjusted . |
| 7 | Just as a golf tee can be pushed into the ground at any point , so the operating unit or front-line unit carries its own support with it . |
| 8 | And branch spokesman Ron Lawton said yesterday : ‘ Some of the most dangerous people in the country are held in these special hospitals and that seems to be pushed into the background . |
| 9 | Why should the poor child be pushed into the world , having been given no choice , no option , no chance of refusal ? |
| 10 | After a stainless steel insert has been pushed into the end of the pipe , the pipe can then be pushed into the fitting with a slight twisting motion . |
| 11 | Compost should be pushed into the crevices and plants securely anchored until established . |