Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Memory managers help , of course — the ability to load drivers up into Upper Memory Blocks is very helpful — but you 've often got drivers you 're rarely going to need taking up memory . |
| 2 | In the Daily Telegraph , Hilary Spurling wrote : ‘ Large parts of this leisurely , absorbing , painstakingly researched and deeply disconcerting book are devoted to turning Freya 's lustrous pearls back into shabby undistinguished grit . |
| 3 | The ability to break individual applications down into separate tasks — as long as the software is written in a suitably modular fashion — is known as application multi-threading , and will be supported in the next release of Solaris 2. x , according to Watkins . |
| 4 | He tore the pages up into big pieces and then he tore the big pieces up into tiny pieces . |
| 5 | The confidence challenge tension leads educators to simplify the tasks given to low-attaining pupils , to break things down into tiny , anodyne steps . |
| 6 | Peters and Waterman advocate what they call ‘ chunking ’ — breaking organisational structures down into small , task-centred units . |
| 7 | He tore the pages up into big pieces and then he tore the big pieces up into tiny pieces . |
| 8 | You know when they pull the flats down they should say , Right , we 'll put fifty families in , fifty families in , fifty families at , you know what I mean , to split all the people what 's in the flats up into different areas cos most of the people in the flats , you know they all stick together sort of thing . |
| 9 | Immediately after the war the government mismanaged the discharge of servicemen back into civilian life , and unemployment rose rapidly . |
| 10 | Under the guise of meeting some of its obligations due to the Australian government under its ‘ partnership for development programme ’ — where foreign multi-nationals must reinvest some of their profits back into Australian industry — Sun Microsystems Inc has all but embraced its two technology pariahs , X-terminals and the Motif interface . |
| 11 | Below Dalrachney the river levels out into long , steady-flowing , deep pools , interspersed by rough , shallow , shingle banks . |
| 12 | That body 's president has welcomed the formation of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa ( NOCSA ) , representing all sorts of rival sporting associations , whose chairman , Sam Ramsamy — a veteran campaigner for the sports boycott — now wants to get South Africans back into international competition . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , the water wells up into steaming pools . |
| 14 | The school aims whenever possible to reintegrate children back into mainstream schools , and is reasonably successful at doing so , especially in the case of primary aged children . |
| 15 | They had seen the knuckles come out of the silken wrapping and the force of it scared their wits back into good manners . |
| 16 | Forward planning consists simply of working out what you have to do to make a success of your course , working out how much time you require to complete the tasks and then breaking those tasks down into weekly schedules . |
| 17 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 18 | The only Scottish parliament which will be guaranteed to be able to bring water services back into public ownership is an independent one . |