Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] into an " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what began as apparently inter-tribal friction developed into an on going township war between the A N C , the Zulu-based Inkahta movement and the State Security Forces . |
| 2 | However , where a decision has been made to make redundancies and employees have been informed , the contingency crystallises into an actual liability . |
| 3 | Within the ERM a Labour government would presumably find its freedom to launch into an unwise , inflationary spending spree greatly restricted . |
| 4 | The gastropods are molluscs with a single , usually helically-coiled shell , with the foot modified into an efficient creeping organ with a head usually with eyes and tentacles , and with a rasp like feeding organ ( radula ) composed of a series of pointed teeth . |
| 5 | The secretary-general of the PS , Jorge Sampaio , became mayor of Lisbon ( the capital ) , where the PS entered into an alliance with the Communists and the Greens ; the PS won absolute control in Oporto . |
| 6 | His son died with four other members of the Kings Regiment when the IRA forced a proxy driver to smash into an army roadblock carrying a huge bomb . |
| 7 | Like a lot of the French women , she was dressed to perfection , her straight dark hair coiled into an immaculate chignon at the back of her neck , her nail varnish perfectly matching her shade of lipstick . |
| 8 | All is silent — the sun is set and as the branches of the woodland trees reflect in the gentle water of the pool I feel the whole of existence draw closer around me as my capacity for description dissolves into an experience of the infinite . |
| 9 | 28 Dim piece developed into an outbreak ( 8 ) |
| 10 | The mouth curled into an annoyingly attractive smile . |
| 11 | Dora 's mouth compressed into an aggressive wedge . |
| 12 | His mouth twisted into an angry line as he snarled , ‘ Women are the last commodity I need in my life . ’ |
| 13 | Her mouth shaped into an astonished circle as she slowly studied him again . |
| 14 | His mouth curved into an ironic smile . |
| 15 | It was the Kings who drew early blood racing into an eight two lead . |
| 16 | What should have been a triumphant closing ceremony turned into an embarrassing muddle , so much so that Polish television switched to a football match . |
| 17 | There 's only half an hour intermission while the news is on and the votes are collated , and the contestants ' fear ferments into an almost hysterical euphoria . |
| 18 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
| 19 | It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation . |
| 20 | Section 6 , like many other sections of the Act is no more than an attempt to put into an Act of Parliament a rule of common law . |
| 21 | Realisation dawned and his mouth stretched into an unpleasant smile . |
| 22 | A project may be financed by equity finance in a company specifically set up to undertake the project , or by new equity introduced into an existing company . |
| 23 | Of course , the welfare state is the public benefactor magnified into an entire system of government . |
| 24 | Under one company scheme — which works on the basis that the employee moves into an area of higher cost housing but into a similar property — the company pays half the additional mortgage cost for the first two years from the date of the move . |
| 25 | Well , almost all of them , she corrected herself , her blue eyes darkening and her mouth setting into an uncharacteristically harsh line . |
| 26 | • writing — with three attainment targets in the primary stages : a growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language , matching style to audience and purpose ; spelling ; and handwriting ; but two in the secondary stages , with spelling and handwriting merged into an attainment target called presentation . |
| 27 | writing — with three attainment targets in the primary stages : a growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language , matching style to audience and purpose ; spelling ; and handwriting ; but two in the secondary stages , with spelling and handwriting merged into an attainment target called presentation . |
| 28 | Denis Cannan 's Dear Daddy ( 1976 ) , again , another successful stage comedy , tells of a virtuous middle-aged family man whose life is triumphantly self-organised down to its last petty details — exactly one-third of a bottle of wine at dinner every evening — until the comfortable domestic order he has created in his second marriage turns into an object of irrational despair to those around him ; and when his first wife , ruined by alcohol , abruptly re-enters his world , he is forced to accept a share of deferred responsibility for the wreckage of her life . |
| 29 | This account revokes the tendency of psychoanalysis to slide into an ego psychology , which equates the unconscious with the id , and treats it as an interesting but manageable phenomenon , the stuff on which the profession 's skill is demonstrated . |
| 30 | The hall erupted into an ovation as Mr Smith added : ‘ Neil and Glenys , we salute you today . ’ |