Example sentences of "[vb pp] into a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
| 2 | The first is The English Medieval House by Margaret Wood ( London , reprint 1985 ) which , although dealing mainly with larger houses , is well organised into a series of chapters dealing with features , such as porches , fireplaces , staircases , windows , and so on . |
| 3 | It runs throughout the year with teaching contributed by six participating departments ; organised into a series of modules , each lasting 5 weeks , of which five must be undertaken . |
| 4 | The formation of the seif dune is less well understood , but transition forms , which can be connected into a series , have been observed by Bagnold . |
| 5 | His memory had grown into a series of fading snapshots . |
| 6 | Endill was taken to the main corridor and strapped into a pair of lead boots . |
| 7 | In LEED structural analyses , a collimated electron beam incident on a well-ordered single crystal surface under ultra-high-vacuum conditions is backscattered into a series of Bragg beams . |
| 8 | But as soon as it was repeated , its individuality merged into a series extending indefinitely into the future . |
| 9 | A JOBLESS plasterer moved into a £100,000 farmhouse on 140 acres of land yesterday after proving he was the love-child of a wealthy farmer . |
| 10 | If the god was feeling generous towards the victim , he would instead be turned into a fruit bat , to serve Camazotz and his court . |
| 11 | Now the manor has been turned into a folk museum . |
| 12 | We 'll use a bank cash machine to prove that nature is being turned into a series of numbers . |
| 13 | COMIC Ben Elton 's best selling novel Stark is to be made into a £2.5 million TV mini-series by the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . |
| 14 | Under the old paradigm , companies are organized into a series of hierarchical tiers so that supervisors at each level can make sure that subordinates act according to plan . |
| 15 | wave output of the oscillator is fed into a divide.by.m circuit , the output of which is coupled to the other phase-locked-loop input . |
| 16 | Fragmentation — the experience of work subdivided into a series of unconnected tasks not requiring the worker 's full attention — is also a common experience . |
| 17 | The French , probably over-confident of victory , allowed themselves to be drawn into a cavalry advance , carried out under a hail of arrows , across recently ploughed ground made softer yet by the rain which had fallen the previous night . |
| 18 | Following the 16 November demonstration , the DCAC was drawn into a series of fire-brigade operations , rushing around trying to prevent minor flare-ups . |
| 19 | If America 's ‘ trade ’ balance is measured on the basis of nationality of ownership rather than residency ( ie , adding the sales , net of local purchases , of overseas subsidiaries to the recorded trade balance and deducting all intra-firm flows to avoid double counting ) , then in 1986 America 's recorded visible-trade deficit of $144 billion is transformed into a $57 billion surplus . |
| 20 | Swainson had begun work on an encyclopedia of zoology , but this project was then transformed into a series of volumes for the Cabinet Cyclopedia organized by Dionysius |
| 21 | Tonight , two acres of land that were once an orchard but have now been transformed into a series of separate cottage gardens . |
| 22 | A current account surplus of $67 bil in 1974 was transformed into a $1 bil deficit by 1978 , and whereas oil 's nominal price remained stable its real price fell . |
| 23 | Obviously , oil revenues have declined — OPEC oil income $280bil in 1980 , $160bil in 1983 — and an overall OPEC current account surplus of over $100 bil was transformed into a $25bil deficit in 1983 . |
| 24 | The shirt was unbuttoned , revealing a hairy chest , and his feet were crammed into a pair of Persian slippers with pointed toes . |
| 25 | Skintight jeans tucked into a pair of brown leather boots and a terrific figure . |
| 26 | It does sound as if your Clownfish have developed into a pair . |
| 27 | In 1980 , the protest developed into a series of hunger strikes . |
| 28 | Peasants and miners were formed into a militia and given several days training , then stationed behind earthworks hurriedly thrown up on beaches , such as at Seaton , which became ‘ a handsome fence forbidding any foe 's invasion ’ , or in the iron age forts . |
| 29 | Mamore Forest is not a forest of trees but a bare upland formed into a series of individual peaks , every one of distinctive outline and separate from its fellows , every one inviting ascent . |
| 30 | Slurry is injected into a 20mm ( 0.75in ) wide groove which can be up to 60mm ( 2.3in ) deep , and on all models , the slot is opened by a pair of discs mounted on a flexible arm , a feature which is said to ensure precise depth control . |