Example sentences of "[been] [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people have not been indoctrinated into religious faith but into a questioning or ignoring of religion as basically superseded if not actually false .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 | The group was finally disbanded in 1969 , by which time China had been plunged into virtual anarchy and economic collapse . |
| 5 | Streets and homes have been plunged into random darkness . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In all these ways the surface has been broken into fine particles . |
| 10 | The original impetus of the CRG has been diverted into specific applications . |
| 11 | Practically all aspects of the curriculum will have been programmed into machine-usable form by 1985 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The former technology-specific units and business area management divisions have been collapsed into single structures around the various technologies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 19 | Ownership has sometimes been transferred into local hands ( private or state ) while the original owners have continued as managers on a financial basis which has frequently been unrelated to their performance . |
| 20 | The data in Table 8.1 has been organized into bit-pattern format in Table 8.2 . |
| 21 | In livestock projects credit designed for fencing and water supplies has been channelled into domestic buildings , for which similar materials are required . |
| 22 | To help each designer in his or her choice , the design folder has been separated into different styles . |
| 23 | People doing certain jobs have characterised themselves — and been characterised — as professions : this concept with all its ideological trappings has been incorporated into sociological analysis so that even its harshest critics are incapable of transcending it , and conduct their discourse in its terms . |
| 24 | Wider social policies , which might have been incorporated into regenerative programmes effected by local government , have been muted if not abandoned . |
| 25 | Renewals for further periods of three years will not be unreasonably refused where the Data has been incorporated into composite works which the Licensee wishes to maintain . ’ |
| 26 | For once behaviour more typically engaged in by subordinate populations has been incorporated into criminal law , then legally sanctioned punishments can be ‘ justifiably ’ imposed . |
| 27 | Nonviral proteins have been incorporated into viral particles , for example , CD4 and chimaeric CD4-envelope proteins into avian retroviruses 12 , but the displayed proteins were not shown to be folded . |
| 28 | Although the European Convention on Human Rights has not been incorporated into domestic law in the United Kingdom and is not enforceable via legal sanctions against signatories , the government was under political pressure following Campbell and Cosans to change the law . |
| 29 | Much of the work of these and other ‘ revisionist ’ historians has proved invaluable , and many of their findings have been incorporated into subsequent chapters of this book . |
| 30 | Article 10 has not been incorporated into English domestic law . |