Example sentences of "[vb pp] into the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is apparent that external circumstances have changed , you have to decide whether to cry chicken and run too early , or continue to reinforce and spend time , money and ever increasing numbers of your best people , who are invariably sucked into the most difficult areas of the battle , trying to fight a war which you can not win . |
| 2 | Four years later , like so many of his generation , he was sucked into the tragically wasteful conflict of the First World War , serving — for reasons best known to himself — as a soldier in the Canadian Army . |
| 3 | In 80 years , GM has grown into the most powerful industrial conglomerate in the United States , and one of the biggest multi-national companies in the world . |
| 4 | In West Germany the socialist students ' organization , the SDS , had grown into the most successful and radical challenge to the status quo that the state had seen since 1945 . |
| 5 | When Section D was absorbed into the newly formed SOE ( Special Operations Executive ) in 1940 , Burgess was not given a job , and he returned to the BBC in 1941 , responsible for propaganda to occupied Europe and liaison with the SIS and SOE . |
| 6 | In 1926 both United Alkali and Brunner , Mond were absorbed into the newly created Imperial Chemical Industries , of which Muspratt 's son ( Sir ) Max Muspratt [ q.v. ] became a director . |
| 7 | Neither Bradford nor his successors obtained a charter for the colony , and because of this it was absorbed into the much larger colony of Massachusetts in 1691 . |
| 8 | Here , the detritus of pre-war Labour politics was quickly absorbed into the more unified Labour Party organization which emerged after 1918 . |
| 9 | At the Salon des Indépendants all these artists were grouped together in Salle 45 , together with the work of Morgan Russel and MacDonald Wright , who called themselves ‘ Synchromists ’ and somewhat pretentiously purported to be representatives of a new school which was to be the culmination of all European painting ; they were , in fact , rapidly absorbed into the more vital Orphist movement . |
| 10 | Thanks to the Clausewitzian unity of war and peace , a warlike spirit is infused into the most ‘ peace-loving ’ enterprises . |
| 11 | At this factory an immense research and development programme is headed by electronics wizard Bob Podhrasky , and in recent years more than $3 million has been pumped into the never ending pursuit of treasure hunting 's Holy Grail … the ‘ perfect ’ machine . |
| 12 | Under the social security reforms , announced on Sept. 6 , various separate pension funds including two virtually bankrupt state funds were to be merged into the heavily indebted state welfare organization IKA ; the retirement age was to be raised in 1998 to 58 for women and to 60 for men ( women being currently eligible for a pension after 15 years ' work and men after 25 years ) . |
| 13 | Except when you are hobbling around dispatching shot after shot into the beautifully manicured lakes thoughtfully scattered around the landscape , leaving a trail of Band-Aids in your wake . |
| 14 | During the civil war , Palestinian guerrillas moved into the far more impressive fortress of Beaufort on the heights above the Litani River , from where they could gaze deep into Israel — or into Palestine as they would insist — and shell the Lebanese Christian villages in between . |
| 15 | Otherness is not so much something to be frightened of , a threat to the stability of the self , as something that can be added to or incorporated into the already existing . |
| 16 | This section deals with the basic exercises that will be incorporated into the more advanced training routines outlined later . |
| 17 | In some societies , for example , distantly related individuals may be incorporated into the formally recognised family , while in other cultures even children may be excluded . |
| 18 | The framework for the investigation of ‘ sensory coding ’ was established in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when the business of explaining perception was transformed into the more specific project of correlating the physical properties of perceived objects and events with patterns of activity in the nervous system and the latter with the subjective properties of the experience : |
| 19 | The rather amorphous Huddersfield Labour movement was transformed into the more clearly defined Huddersfield Divisional Labour Party in the spring and summer of 1918 . |
| 20 | The realization that religious beliefs were relevant to the rise of science is transformed into the more parochial claim that a particular religion , or religious tradition , was uniquely propitious . |
| 21 | In the three years that followed , he at last found personal happiness and intellectual fulfilment , and was swiftly transformed into the brilliantly eloquent young man the greater world was soon to know . |
| 22 | Anyway , the crux of the problem involves coaxing your reluctant body around the arête , while attempting to keep as much of it as possible crammed into the now less-than-accommodating horizontal break . |
| 23 | She simply looks satisfied , as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted . |
| 24 | Far from being impossibly Utopian , these attitudes were a survival necessity and eventually flowered into the extraordinarily peaceful and creative Minoan civilisation of ancient Crete . |
| 25 | Under the more favourable conditions of their past , they had developed into the remarkably beautiful and striking breeds that made such an impact on the visitors to the early cat shows . |
| 26 | By 1935 , the Bedfordshire Federation had developed into the most effective student organisation in the District attracting much attention from other areas within and beyond the District . |
| 27 | Javed Miandad 's team have developed into the most powerful combination on the international scene in any form of the game . |
| 28 | Until relatively recently , radiocarbon dating would have fallen into the largely destructive category . |
| 29 | The material that has fallen into the more massive of the two galaxies rekindles the quasar at its core . |
| 30 | The first idea is refined into a hypothesis by collecting more evidence to see if it really works , and ultimately it may be elevated into the rather grand status of a Theory , if successful predictions can be based upon it . |