Example sentences of "[vb pp] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn 's insides clenched into a tight ball . |
| 2 | She could feel that the muscles in her stomach were clenched into a tight ball . |
| 3 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 4 | His mouth was compressed into a straight line and his brows were drawn together . |
| 5 | Her mouth was compressed into a tight line . |
| 6 | His mouth compressed into a hard line . |
| 7 | Others may genuinely believe that even lengthy dreams have been compressed into a brief period . |
| 8 | Father Poole 's mouth compressed into a thin hard line . |
| 9 | Montgomery made his own examination of the body , his mouth compressed into a thin line of concentration . |
| 10 | His lips were compressed into a thin line as he awaited some explanation . |
| 11 | Lips compressed into a thin line of tension , she strode along the corridor and into her office , wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of stale air . |
| 12 | They were like chips of blue ice , his lips compressed into a thin line . |
| 13 | She was white and her lips were compressed into a pale line . |
| 14 | In this model this desirable ‘ professional style ’ consists of collections or sets of values attached to different aspects of the work ( such as the administration of drugs , carrying out aseptic technique , basic theoretical knowledge such as anatomy , physiology , pathology and so on ) , organised into a complex structure which characteristics the nurse 's attitudes to the work . |
| 15 | An obvious problem is that a text is not made up of collections of sentences , but of sentences organised into a coherent whole . |
| 16 | More specifically , it has been proposed that the related ideas expressed in a discourse are organised into a coherent whole or schema — to use the concept first developed by Bartlett ( 1932 ) . |
| 17 | Corporatism can be defined as a system of interest representation in which the constituent units are organised into a limited number of singular , compulsory , noncompetitive , hierarchically ordered and functionally differentiated categories , recognised or licensed ( if not created ) by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their respective categories in exchange for observing certain controls on their selection of leaders and articulation of demands and supports . |
| 18 | … a system of interest representation in which the constituent units organised into a limited number of singular , compulsory , non competitive , hierarchically ordered and functionally differentiated categories , recognised or licensed ( if not created ) by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their respective categories in exchange for observing certain controls on their selection of leaders and articulation of demands and supports . |
| 19 | In terms of the concepts outlined above we could express Marx 's views thus : the economic class of proletarians ( propertyless sellers of labour power ) will necessarily become increasingly homogeneous in respect of income levels and conditions of life and work ; this will result in the increasing ‘ non-pertinence ’ of social collectivities based on branch of industry , religion , nationality , sex etc. , and the increasing pertinence of the social collectivity coterminous with the proletariat itself ; eventually as a result of the process of struggle this social collectivity will become organised into a corporate body — the trade union movement — and a political force : the communist movement or party . |
| 20 | In 1946 the mines were nationalised with the vigorous support of the miners after sixty years resistance by the coal-owners , and shortly afterwards the petty bourgeoisie of the medical profession were organised into a National Health Service . |
| 21 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 22 | Finally the head roared ‘ Time 's past ’ , whereupon it fell to the floor with a tremendous noise and shattered into a thousand pieces . |
| 23 | Urquhart stared at her for a moment and then shattered into a hearty laugh , much too hearty to be genuine to Blanche 's ears . |
| 24 | The lights are like smashed glass — all shattered into a million bits . |
| 25 | Tufted carpets are much more economic to produce in that the pile is needled into a pre-woven backing . |
| 26 | The male guppy , a small South American fish , has a pair of fins on his underside modified into a gun-like tube through which he fires small bullets of sperm at the female 's genital opening . |
| 27 | Then he lap dissolved into a happy ending with some drip like Anne Shirley . ’ |
| 28 | In a period when , as recent events in Los Angeles and elsewhere have shown , the ethnic melting pot has dissolved into a racial meltdown , the clemency of clear understanding is as sought-after as ever . |
| 29 | The tiny image of the blue box , and all around it , dissolved into a grey mist . |
| 30 | But now , I think he 's come into a great second flowering . |