Example sentences of "[be] [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ( h ) you will see yellow has been blended into pale lilac and in ( i ) pale lilac has been rubbed into French blue . |
| 2 | Most people have not been indoctrinated into religious faith but into a questioning or ignoring of religion as basically superseded if not actually false . |
| 3 | But her daughter has been placed into foster care and now the father is making an all-out bid to get legal custody . |
| 4 | Down in the corrie , two sparkling blue-green lochans perch beneath the steep cliffs , and it 's hard to imagine that just over the next two gullies , people in golf jumpers are tucking into sticky buns . |
| 5 | They are tucking into buttered scones and a huge pot of tea . |
| 6 | The group was finally disbanded in 1969 , by which time China had been plunged into virtual anarchy and economic collapse . |
| 7 | Streets and homes have been plunged into random darkness . |
| 8 | Does the Secretary of State recognise that the access funds are in no sense a substitute for student eligibility for social security and for vacation hardship allowance and that mature students in particular have been plunged into severe hardship by the Government 's policies ? |
| 9 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 10 | chinese ‘ stick ’ ink is related to carbon/Indian ink , in that usually the same pigment has been used , although these inks are formed into hard cakes . |
| 11 | Balsa wood can also be smoked after it has been broken into little pieces , but some say it is even less rewarding than banana skins . |
| 12 | In all these ways the surface has been broken into fine particles . |
| 13 | The original impetus of the CRG has been diverted into specific applications . |
| 14 | Practically all aspects of the curriculum will have been programmed into machine-usable form by 1985 … |
| 15 | Even amid the most carefully documented press articles , minor irrelevances are exaggerated into major sweeping testimonies of the band 's incapabilities . |
| 16 | In plating , components are dropped into various solutions to coat them with a metal such as zinc or aluminium . |
| 17 | On the one hand , ideas have been simplified into reduced versions which often bear little resemblance to their originals in the disciplinary contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 18 | In some cases , even the notion of ‘ the freedom of the press ’ has been transposed into other contexts and used to defend practices in radio and television . |
| 19 | Moreover , rates of water-table rise are rapid , at between 30 and 40 cm per year , and already large areas of the Indus basin have been transposed into saline waterlogged swamps , though remedial measures involving government-controlled drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem . |
| 20 | Often , the groups of fans most dedicated to hooligan behaviour are organised into hard-core ‘ fighting crews ’ ( e.g. the Leeds United ‘ Service Crew ’ , Manchester United 's ‘ Red Devils ’ , West Ham 's ‘ Inter City Crew ’ , Chelsea 's ‘ Anti-Personnel Firm ’ , Arsenal 's ‘ Gooners ’ , Millwall 's ‘ Bushwackers ’ , Tottenham 's ‘ The Spurs Yids ’ and , in Scotland , Aberdeen 's ‘ Soccer Casuals ’ ) . |
| 21 | This appears to be the only source of information available to the child regarding how phonemes , morphemes and words are organised into meaningful sentences . |
| 22 | The former technology-specific units and business area management divisions have been collapsed into single structures around the various technologies . |
| 23 | It was possible that , like many of the casual spectators , the key members of the crew had all been frozen into temporary immobility by the looming presence of the ovoid , but Rostov was inclined to suspect the convenience of such a coincidence . |
| 24 | Yet it is at least arguable that different kinds of people are attracted into different kinds of subjects . |
| 25 | Then , when the data have been collected , the respondents are grouped into homogeneous categories according to their scores for selected variables . |
| 26 | Beyond it , visible through gaps where the iron had been torn into ragged wings and beaten back , was a junkyard in which caravans were parked . |
| 27 | THERE is a sense of release about December 's stars , perhaps a feeling that the worst is behind you or because you are launching into new territory . |
| 28 | The core elements are smashed into sub-atomic particles , and huge quantities of neutrinos are blasted out by the shock wave at speeds of 11,000 miles per second , unleashing bright flares of light which astronomers can now , for the first time , observe . |
| 29 | Discussing the prose poem — a form of literature which , as used by Jacob , provides one of the closest literary parallels to Cubist painting in that it embodies simultaneously actions or events normally separated by time and space , which are fused into formal , difficult but rational and understandable creations — Jacob warns the poet and artist against ‘ the too dazzling precious stones which attract the eye at the expense of the whole ’ , and adds ‘ The poem is a constructed object and not the display window of a jeweller 's shop . |
| 30 | While the majority are coiled in an upward spiral , some are modified into simple , cap-like forms ( like the limpets ) , and others are coiled in a flat plane , like a ram 's horn . |