Example sentences of "has [adv] [verb] into a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the meantime , ‘ community policing has not developed into a partnership between police and public in the fight against crime . |
2 | If persuasion does not work , ‘ green conditionality ’ might be the answer in some cases , unpopular though it would be ; and for the really hard cases , sanctions , provided there is sufficient of a consensus to back them and the industrial world has not sunk into a mood of profound fatalism about the impossibility of stemming the greenhouse gases . |
3 | Both can be seen as genuine attempts at making something out of nothing , attempts at getting something even if it 's only a laugh out of a life which , in many cases , by 16 has already run into a collection of brick walls labelled ‘ unemployment ’ , ‘ shit jobs ’ and ‘ routine brushes with the Law ’ . |
4 | Kirov 's face bore the unmistakable look of a man who has deliberately walked into a cage of lions and emerged again unscathed . |
5 | What started out as a loyal band of Kylie watchers has now grown into a legion of Wannabes : teenage girls who spend all their waking hours trying to dress , talk and sing like Kylie . |
6 | From a small , localised clientele , the company has now expanded into a customer base which stretches from Southampton to Wick . |
7 | Sainsbury moved in around day two with a £200,000 press project that has now evolved into a £14.2m ( Media Register ) account . |
8 | Olivia announces , with evident excitement , that the new priestess has now entered into a trance . |
9 | Can Misha Glenny be so politically naive that he has unwittingly turned into an apologist for aggression ? |
10 | Her first crime is that she has n't clocked into an office for 16 years . |
11 | He has recently ventured into an export business and hopes this will flourish with the lifting of sanctions . |