Example sentences of "[noun prp] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , on June 12 , US Secretary of State James Baker had told a Senate committee that although the Kuwaiti government " may not be the optimum type of regime " , the USA did not seek to transform Kuwait into a Western-style democracy . |
| 2 | Arguably , what has occurred is a reinterpretation of the traditional partnership between central government , LEAs and schools which has allowed central government , on the basis of its ‘ accountability to parliament for the performance of the educational service at all levels ’ , progressively to nudge LEAs into a fuller appreciation of their curricular responsibilities and , through that , to influence the schools . |
| 3 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 4 | Nutty let out a genuine snort of rage , nudged Midnight with her heels and rode Antony into a large patch of thistles , towing the Badminton mare with her . |
| 5 | And what I 'm looking for , Coffin thought , is what they might not remember , the little details , the sequence of small events that might shift Ted Mosse into a different perspective . |
| 6 | Among other achievements , it gave a platform to Mary Whitehouse , lured Edwina Currie into a cheerful admission that the Tory campaign had made John Major look like a stump orator and Neil Kinnock like an incumbent prime minister , and mounted an irreverent debate on political morality . |
| 7 | Losing these international galleries has converted ARCO into a local fair with exactly one half of the exhibitors being drawn from Madrid , Barcelona , Valencia , Palma de Mallorca and other Spanish cities . |
| 8 | As Britain concentrated more on integrating the United States into a western defensive system , France began to see integration as a way of increasing its own influence within Europe , especially over the future of Germany . |
| 9 | From its European origins as a liberal anti-Marxist theory , picked up in practical politics mainly by parties and movements of the right , elite theory metamorphosed in the United States into a radical/left-leaning critique of pluralism . |
| 10 | Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram . |
| 11 | One of the least realistic was an Iranian proposal , the implementation of which would in all likelihood have turned Afghanistan into a pro-Iranian Islamic state distanced from both East and West . |
| 12 | Act Three was short and musically not too demanding , just tied everything up without putting Gesner and Therese into a strained situation . |
| 13 | Hundreds of billions changed hands as dealers tried to force President Mitterrand into a humiliating devaluation . |
| 14 | The atmosphere was hostile enough to make even the sturdiest outfit crumble , with almost 38,000 — the biggest crowd in England this season outside Wembley — turning Anfield into a seething cauldron . |
| 15 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 16 | Bradford , however , always looked dangerous , with Mike Duxbury volleying wide , Paul Jewell forcing Prudhoe into a full length save and Stephen Torpey having a goal disallowed . |
| 17 | Bradford , however , always looked dangerous , with Mike Duxbury volleying wide , Paul Jewell forcing Prudhoe into a full length save and Stephen Torpey having a goal disallowed . |
| 18 | Apart from unseating Sinn Fein in West Belfast , the SDLP converted a 731 majority in South Down into a commanding one of 6,342 . |
| 19 | Then she sent Molly into a shadowy room which seemed at first to be empty . |
| 20 | The electronic gadgetry , integrated by Grumman into a modified Boeing 707 aircraft , is the air-to-ground equivalent of the air-to-air AWACS air-surveillance system . |
| 21 | When she tried to get Josh into a free day nursery , she discovered that the local authority did not regard her situation as difficult . |
| 22 | A minute later Sabrina swung the Renault into a narrow alleyway beside the house and emerged into a cobbled courtyard closed in on all sides by faded white walls , the paint peeling off in unsightly flakes to reveal greyish plaster underneath . |
| 23 | The inquiry is the first by the CRE into a single local authority or organisation in Scotland since the commission was set up in 1976 . |
| 24 | The inquiry is the first by the CRE into a single local authority or organisation in Scotland since the commission was set up in 1976 . |
| 25 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 26 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 27 | The home side , boosted by the inclusion of Dutch world Cup stars Taco Van Den Hornet , Floris Jan Bovelander and GB gold medallists John Shaw , Stephen Martin and Sean Kerly , clawed their way back with two goals in the last twelve minutes after Dan Clarke , with a hat-trick , had steered Ireland into a 5–3 lead . |
| 28 | This would strengthen the case of Kim Il Sung moving sooner rather than later to defeat Syngman Rhee and transform the whole of Korea into a communist state . |
| 29 | While the English army remained preoccupied during the early 1650s with these military campaigns against the Irish and Scots , the Rump of the Long Parliament was able to pursue a foreign policy motivated primarily by commercial considerations , leading England into a naval war with her principal trading rival , Protestant Holland . |
| 30 | It began that division of agricultural England into a high-wage North and a low-wage South which is best known from Sir James Caird 's map drawn when the dichotomy was at its peak in 1850 . |