Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 2 | Despite their initial ferocity the victorious Agaw were eventually assimilated into the civilization they had sought to destroy , and were converted to Christianity . |
| 3 | Police were eventually called into the Assembly building to restore order , and Hau 's appointment was confirmed by 186 votes to 27 . |
| 4 | When District Officers were eventually allowed into the field they were watched like hawks by their senior officers for signs — an indication , it was said , of inaptitude or inexperience — of running things too directly , and promotions were made or denied on the extent to which they seemed , in the words of the Resident , Adamawa , to be ‘ imbued with the true spirit of Indirect Rule ’ . |
| 5 | One reason for the weakness of the Communist movement in Mexico is that intellectuals were effectively incorporated into the system until at least the late 1960s , the Mexican government ‘ preferring the price of appeasing or coopting intellectuals to the perils of ignoring or alienating them ’ . |
| 6 | Advertisements were only admitted into the reception area . |
| 7 | Jimmy 's hands were not sinking into the concrete . |
| 8 | No doubt if such a condition were not written into the Act , the trial judge and the House of Lords would have regard to the significance of the adoption of the procedure for litigants and to their wishes in exercising their respective discretions to grant a certificate or leave to appeal . |
| 9 | But we were not taken into the confidence of those who determined media-generated arguments between agendaless and ideologically bankrupt parties . |
| 10 | They were not dropped into the oblivion of the Gulag archipelago or the Lubianka . |
| 11 | To the left of this doorway , right down on the ground , is an arched opening known as ‘ The Cagots ’ window' , this having been , so one story claims , the window through which the Cagots , who were not allowed into the church , could hear the mass . |
| 12 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |
| 13 | Corbett offered to double the usual fee and they were soon climbing into the skiff and making their way out across the Forth . |
| 14 | Despite the setback , Townsends continued to operate for many years , through Two World Wars , until they were finally absorbed into the Rank , Hovis , McDougall Company . |
| 15 | This was because the process of decommissioning was expected to take place so many years ahead that its costs were easily discounted into the future . |
| 16 | But the idea of communicative competence arises from a dissatisfaction with the Chomskyan distinction between competence and performance and essentially seeks to establish competence status for aspects of language behaviour which were indiscriminately collected into the performance category . |
| 17 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 18 | The shape was roughly indented in the mud , but little runnels of water were already seeping into the indentation , for the tide had turned . |
| 19 | On that hole Stein and Otaki were already playing into the arena of grandstands . |
| 20 | 6 Corporate systems must be aligned to support TQM : Two of the great pioneers of total quality management , Edwards Deming and J.H. Juran , whose work had great influence on Japanese companies after the Second World War , discovered that quality problems were usually built into the design of production processes and could not be attributed to the ill-will or incompetence of workers . |
| 21 | Military and government people were quickly absorbed into the war effort , but the churches were at a loss what to do with us . |
| 22 | The patients ‘ were quickly integrated into the life of the small community and it was found that many of them were surviving better outside than inside the hospital ’ . |
| 23 | People were always coming into the shop looking for things to copy . |
| 24 | Is it true you were once locked into the vault under the church with Bruckner 's coffin ? |
| 25 | For two people who both were always in control , this was something of a miracle — to let go of control completely — to trust enough that they were both hurled into the abyss of pure sensation , pure feeling . |
| 26 | They were partly absorbed into the ethos of the aristocracy . |
| 27 | The red-hot steel tyre would be placed in position around the wheel ; if the tyre was of less width than the rim , temporary nails were partly driven into the wood to stop the tyre slipping down to the steel plate . |
| 28 | Capricious economic forces were managed by democracy so that slump and unemployment were things of the past , and a welfare state had been created by democracy so ensuring that wealth and poverty ( and hence any material basis for class conflict ) were also cast into the dustbin of history . |
| 29 | The principles of public service broadcasting were also incorporated into the development of the BBC 's television service after the Second World War . |
| 30 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |