Example sentences of "were [verb] into a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willie sat on a chair as his feet were placed into a measuring gauge . |
| 2 | But these identifiable elements were blended into a new pattern , which owed its existence to Gloucester himself . |
| 3 | But these identifiable elements were blended into a new pattern , which owed its existence to Gloucester himself . |
| 4 | Er much to everybody 's fear , really , because we , we , we were stepping into a new area , you can imagine from , from wires to something with no wires , and the risk of that failing , but , but it worked and er from thereon , of course most Fire Brigades have taken on the task and , and er are now on radio contact of this kind . |
| 5 | THE explorers Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud were tucking into a hearty breakfast of eggs yesterday after being airlifted to safety from the icy wastes of the Antarctic . |
| 6 | In order to impose some consistency on the data , and to make bibliographic searching by author easier , the Rolfe listings were rearranged into a single file in alphabetical order of thesis author . |
| 7 | She could feel that the muscles in her stomach were clenched into a tight ball . |
| 8 | Foucault argued that the period around 1800 saw the breakdown of the ‘ classical ’ view of natural relationships in which species were slotted into a conceptual grid whose structure was determined by the human mind . |
| 9 | In 1946 the mines were nationalised with the vigorous support of the miners after sixty years resistance by the coal-owners , and shortly afterwards the petty bourgeoisie of the medical profession were organised into a National Health Service . |
| 10 | She was white and her lips were compressed into a pale line . |
| 11 | His lips were compressed into a thin line as he awaited some explanation . |
| 12 | even fewer would deny that the CMHTs were precipitated into a virtual policy vacuum and were in effect used as one means of developing a broader framework rather than as a means of implementing an already established strategy . |
| 13 | New Statesman and New Society were merged into a single publication 18 months ago . |
| 14 | The workers were pushed into a common consciousness not only by this social polarisation but , in the cities at least , by a common style of life — in which the tavern ( ‘ the workman 's church' as a bourgeois liberal called it ) played a central role — and by a common style of thought . |
| 15 | These were incorporated into a re-drafted constitution for the Rural Areas Committee and discussed further by professor Barker , Chairman of the Cambridge Board and the Rural Areas Committee , with Elvin and Green . |
| 16 | In order to establish that its terms were incorporated into a particular contract , a business must show that they were accepted by , or on behalf of , the other contracting party . |
| 17 | ‘ If my observations are correct , the mattress and blankets were turned into a roaring inferno within seconds . |
| 18 | Like , where were all the anti-war songs when the Falklands were turned into a mass graveyard for the young men of England and Argentina ? |
| 19 | Like , where were all the anti-war songs when the Falklands were turned into a mass graveyard for the young men of England and Argentina ? |
| 20 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 21 | First Fruits and Augmentations , together with General Surveyors , were absorbed into a reformed Exchequer . |
| 22 | Even if the signal were transcribed into a perfect description of the sound , the utterance might remain partially ambiguous without the application of further sources of information . |
| 23 | If , without any transfer of angular momentum to the Earth-Moon system , the Moon were shifted into a circular orbit half the radius of its present orbit ( which is nearly circular ) , discuss whether its sidereal orbital period would initially increase or decrease . |
| 24 | After their escape , the driver , William McPhee , who also owns the van , and his assistant Caroline Campbell were helped into a nearby house before police , ambulance and fire services arrived . |
| 25 | After their escape , the driver , William McPhee , who owns the van , and his assistant Caroline Campbell were helped into a nearby house before police , ambulance and fire services arrived . |
| 26 | They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees . |
| 27 | The priests were shepherded into a little knot . |
| 28 | Right , do you think do you think did the army consider they were going into a colonial situation ? |
| 29 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 30 | You felt you were locked into a particular stratum of society , that that was your place and that was where you stayed . |