Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] into a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said afterwards that the remains of the truck could have been packed into a kitbag . |
| 2 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 3 | My forest of trees could indeed have been turned into a forest of nerves , with each jagged branch poking into that guilty skull like the accusing fingers of God 's darker or more vengeful angels . |
| 4 | This would be expected because , first , they would have been socialized into a version of mathematics nearer to that of the university ‘ modern ’ pure mathematicians than that of their elders and because , secondly , they would have had a potential interest in changes that could , within schools , challenge the seniority of their elder colleagues or , at least , they would have had less of a vested interest in current practice . |
| 5 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 6 | ITN had said that in the 12 months before the ban was imposed , 0.01 per cent of air time would have been affected and these items could have been recast into a form which complied with the directives . |