Example sentences of "had been [verb] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance , the wall had extended several metres across the clearing . |
| 2 | Three times as many people had been packed into the old confines as could prudently be housed there , even by the low standards of a hundred years ago , and the slums of Nottingham have remained a byword down to our own day . |
| 3 | By comparison with their fellow citizens who had been integrated into the collective farm system or recruited from the land to work in the cities , they had prospered . |
| 4 | He was referring to the remainder of Layforce which had been formed into the Middle East Commando , the Foldboat Section ( SBS ) and the ‘ parachute personnel ’ . |
| 5 | The rump of Layforce had been formed into the Middle East Commando , which later became known as I Special Service Regiment . |
| 6 | Throughout the 1920s Japanese silk and rice producers faced severe competition from Asian producers , some of whom were based in territories that had been incorporated into the Japanese Empire . |
| 7 | This had existed from 1919 to 1934 , when it had been incorporated into the new Chechen-Ingush ASSR . |
| 8 | For disappointing though the Act was to prove to the great and unpropertied majority whose aspirations had been absorbed into the emotional dynamic needed to sustain the political will to secure its passage through Parliament , nevertheless it had shown that the Constitution could be changed constitutionally . |
| 9 | In October 1906 he went to Trinity Hall , Cambridge , and left in March 1909 , having taken no examinations ; on 6 December 1907 he had been received into the Catholic Church by R. Hugh Benson [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 11 | As soon as prisoners had been poured into the particular patch of ground which was to be their camp , all this activity materialized from nothing ; and it materialized in every camp regardless of the nationality of the prisoners . |
| 12 | Three zircons were dated in situ using the SHRIMP ion microprobe at the Australian National University in Canberra , after chips of the ANU zircon standard SL13 had been implanted into the analysed thin section . |
| 13 | Compass points had been carved into the circular slab in the centre of the floor . |
| 14 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 15 | Its members had been accepted into the left-wing party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya ( ERC ) . |
| 16 | The main strength of the collection lies in the Rajput schools and the Akbari period of Mughal art , before the robust approach to representation had been refined into the imperial style and more formal composition . |
| 17 | Ian Paisley had been born into the rural pious Orange tradition of politicized Protestantism in County Armagh . |
| 18 | Population and housing growth in the more pressurized areas had been channelled into the key settlements , but the selected villages in the more remote areas were simply too small to function as foci for growth . |
| 19 | In the first model of the mind , remember we said that the unconscious was everything that was either primarily unconscious , could never become conscious , or had been forced into the unconscious by th by means of repression . |
| 20 | But suppose there was something that could only be depressed after the first piece had been pulled into the right position ? |
| 21 | A young attendant in a blue uniform respectfully opened the door , and as soon as Luce had been settled into the grey suede luxury of the front passenger-seat they set off for the mainland . |
| 22 | It was only a matter of a few hours before the stranger had been slotted into the local kinship network ; and the recognition of kinship was mutual . |
| 23 | He told how , after his condition deteriorated badly , his son had been taken into the intensive care unit where he had been put on a life support machine . |
| 24 | By 1935 he had returned to England and in the following year married an actress , eight years older than himself , Elsie Elizabeth Mary Gott , a marriage celebrated , since he had been baptized into the Roman Catholic Church , in St James 's , Spanish Place . |
| 25 | In 1819 his parents , along with other members of this Jewish family , had been baptized into the Lutheran Church . |
| 26 | He had been catapulted into the awesome role of negotiator with his country 's ruler more by chance than anything else . |
| 27 | I had been drawn into the deadly rivalry , both political and personal , which existed between Francis and Henry . |
| 28 | Even if the Prussian Colonisation Commission had failed to drive the Poles out entirely , many of the old Slav survivors of the original settlement of Pomerania had been drawn into the German language orbit . |
| 29 | In one week I had been transformed into the two personae that I had always sworn to avoid : the preacher and the missionary . |
| 30 | Superficially , the party 's position looked unassailable , and commentators repeatedly claimed that , under Hawke 's premiership , the ALP had been transformed into the natural party of government . |