Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . |
| 2 | Erm so I do n't honestly remember at what point the line that er Mr Bruce refers to er was removed or was transformed into what we have here . |
| 3 | Whereas in RX and Pilkingtons union resistance was either negligible or was transformed into active cooperation , at Ford the quality circles foundered on the unions ' dismissal of the initiative as a heavy-handed attempt to short-circuit existing bargaining procedures . |
| 4 | Beneath the filmy topcoat he wore a black shirt and black trousers that were tucked into tall black boots . |
| 5 | The lines began to shake and the two flags that were pushed into the heaps of stones soon fell over , but Bobbie ran across and picked up one of them . |
| 6 | Lynchets are strips of land one oxen-width wide that were ploughed into the hillside by Anglo-Saxon farmers . |
| 7 | All your behaviour , with the exception of those reflexes that were built into the system , has been acquired over a long period of ad hoc learning . |
| 8 | He was dressed in a pair of well-worn-looking jeans that were stuffed into the tops of his black rubber boots , with a thick roll-neck sweater , a dark navy blue , beneath the battered-looking dark green waterproof jacket . |
| 9 | The botanical annals are full of examples of plants that were introduced into a novel area , only to become seriously weedy — witness the prickly pear 's progress in Australia and South Africa , or the rhododendron in Britain . |
| 10 | So if y there would be the cognitive demon which was the letter A and what would happen is , it would start looking at the features that were coming into the system and it would say , are they the ones associated with A ? |
| 11 | She contemplated the long , pale shape of her body in the mirror , the angles that were softened into curves , the light dusting of talc on the clear skin . |
| 12 | She was deeper than the house , level with worms , all the dead things that were put into the ground . |
| 13 | Flown by Polish-trained Iskra pilot , Janusz Abczynski , the aircraft , N501SH , is one of 25 such machines that were imported into the USA by Wilke Associates , who have also established parts support , service and training for what they see to be a top contender in the sport jet market . |
| 14 | Given the ecumenical spirit which has prevailed in many school religious assemblies for a number of years , it was hardly surprising that serious objection would be taken to the emphasis on Christian traditions that was incorporated into the law on collective worship . |
| 15 | On the more formal , constitutional , front , survey research on voters revealed a reality utterly at odds with the conception of the active and informed citizen that was built into the traditional liberal-democratic theory of the British constitution so confounding the credibility of that perspective on British politics as well . |
| 16 | I mean when I think of all the money that was poured into my education and nobody ever mentioned the kind of decisions one would have to make in the future and the problems you would have in trying to make use both of your education and have children and have the happy family life that our society encourages you to have and that we all perhaps want . |
| 17 | He swung into a vacant parking space at that moment , right in front of the café that was tucked into an out-of-the-way corner of the city 's central business and shopping district . |
| 18 | Gazing blankly at the colour chart that was thrust into her hands , she felt as though she was falling apart at the seams , as though all the muscles and tendons that were holding her body together were snapping one by one . |
| 19 | The roof was flat , with a high parapet that was cut into loopholes . |
| 20 | She pointed to an area of the graphic that was expanding into other sections , eating into them like some strange , glittering kind of cancer . |
| 21 | The value of the new benefit was significantly enhanced by an additional £1.5 billion of revenue that was pumped into the scheme at the time . |
| 22 | When the security forces sought to empty the pastor 's house of its possessions , a human chain of several dozen formed around the house , setting in train a flood of protest that was to escalate into what appears to have been a massacre on Sunday . |
| 23 | Maybe it will coming back into fashion now , I do n't know , but there is no question as to whether some of the early er research that was done into the measurement of intelligence , was in fact fair , and fairly represented . |
| 24 | The voice was tiny , forced out with grunts of air , a whistle that was formed into words that were as incomplete and ill-defined as its body . |
| 25 | The next section traces the traditional arguments for and against health care markets to set against the peculiar hybrid that was introduced into the NHS . |
| 26 | Mr refers to European law and environmental statements that was passed into British legislation we have fully complied with that . |
| 27 | The birds of one group were put , each with an unopened milk container , in one compartment of a cage that was divided into two compartments by a wire mesh through which the birds could see . |
| 28 | And it 's been achieved by Forest keeping their nerve , their heads , their shape and , above all , their beliefs during a year that was turning into annus horribilis . |
| 29 | The chief of these was the Ospedale del Brolo , the ‘ hospital in the field ’ , the same field in which the basilica stood , one of the hospitals that was amalgamated into Ca'Grande . |
| 30 | It was the beginning of an on-off professional relationship that was to persist into the 1970s , by which time , in London , Neville would even write for Rowe 's new magazine , Spare Rib . |