Example sentences of "has [verb] into a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dead empires have bred leaping ambition ; international politics has developed into a struggle between competing ethnic groups ; the United Nations has to pick an impossible path between respect for sovereignty and respect for nationalism . |
| 2 | In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions . |
| 3 | ‘ Photography has developed into a weapon of resistance in the constant struggle for survival , ’ Mr Müller said . |
| 4 | A mixture of language ( usually incorporating English or French ) which has developed into a language in its own right . |
| 5 | ‘ Ince has developed into a player of substance and people forget he is still only 24 . |
| 6 | Radioactive water has leaked into a reservoir from a nuclear power plant near Yekaterinburg in Russia . |
| 7 | Taylor saw for himself on Saturday how the 24-year-old Aston Villa flyer has matured into a player of genuine international potential . |
| 8 | The college has fallen into a state of such disrepair since it was closed down that I doubt if anyone could truthfully class it as that . ’ |
| 9 | But over the last twelve months the trickle of disclosures , has grown into a river of revelations . |
| 10 | Tony Bland — who has grown into a man in his hospital bed — might have the answer to their dilemma but there 's nobody to hear it where he is … stuck between Heaven and earth . |
| 11 | As Sheffield has grown into a city of about 500 000 people– many jobs have been created to provide services , especially shops and transport , and to make processed foods , beer , sweets , clothing , furniture and printing . |
| 12 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |
| 13 | The narrow emphasis on economy and efficiency which characterised the Thatcher years has broadened into a search for effectiveness and excellence as the current enthusiasm for quality in health care demonstrates . |
| 14 | They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them . |
| 15 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 16 | Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak . |
| 17 | The Body & Face Place franchise operation , for instance , has turned into a crematorium for the business ambitions of many franchisees . |
| 18 | Germany , once the greatest supporter of a united Europe , has turned into a nation of bewildered sceptics intent on forcing Bonn to claw back some lost sovereignty . |
| 19 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 20 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 21 | Louisa 's confusion about sex , and whether her body is ‘ a kind of power ’ or a vulnerability , leaving her open to sexual attack , has turned into an obsession with losing weight , and wishing to lose the breasts and curviness that cause so many problems in her life . |
| 22 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 23 | ‘ Beautiful , desirable … the kind of woman who only has to walk into a room in order to arouse the predator inside every man there . ’ |
| 24 | SPIKE LEE has entered into a contract with Universal Pictures that is scheduled to run for years . |
| 25 | if A has entered into a contract with B to do work for , or to supply goods or services to , B in return for payment by B and |
| 26 | Section 2(3) seems to go further by saying that just because a party has entered into a contract with a term imposing risk on him , this " is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance " of that risk . |
| 27 | Whatever view is preferred , where a State has entered into a treaty on behalf of an individual , or a group of individuals , it is self-evident that those individuals have an interest in its performance or non-performance . |
| 28 | Section 6(2) empowers the court to order a person who has entered into a transaction in contravention of section 3 to take such steps as the court may direct for restoring ‘ the parties ’ ( that is the contravener and the investor ) to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 29 | The construction perhaps derives some small support from Part IV which provides that ‘ concentrate of poppy-straw ’ means the material produced [ commentator 's italics ] when poppy-straw has entered into a process for the concentration of its alkaloids . ’ |
| 30 | If the petitioner has received any payment from the debtor since the petition was presented or the debtor has entered into an arrangement with the petitioner for the securing or compounding of the debt , the affidavit must state what dispositions of property the debtor has made so as to pay the debt or secure or compound for it , whether any property disposed of was the property of the debtor himself or some other person , and if the property was that of the debtor himself , whether the disposition was made with the approval of the court ( r 6.32(2) ) . |