Example sentences of "[v-ing] it into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the employers , however , the ‘ new technology ’ was a means of re-establishing control over the industry and of driving it into profit . |
| 2 | Open the length of insulation and wrap it around the pipe , pressing it into contact with the tank . |
| 3 | He asked himself " Why do I have to cosmeticize everything by translating it into painting ? |
| 4 | But they have different ways of retrieving the information coded in their DNA and translating it into synthesis of cell material . |
| 5 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 6 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 7 | On Sept. 4 Cuba 's representative , Juan Almeida Bosque , said that the US trade embargo against his country had become " more aggressive , more ignominious , more brutal " , forcing it into poverty and hunger . |
| 8 | 3 But it also makes sense to say that the British constitution is what the authorities say it should be because their views on these matters help to police everyday political practice , pulling it into line with the constitutional theory which they themselves advance as the proper way to conduct politics . |
| 9 | ‘ In full awareness of our responsibility , we reject the policies of the present leadership which are diverting our country from the socialist path and leading it into catastrophe . ’ |
| 10 | You gave me your sludge , Universe , he told the cosmos , and I 'm turning it into gold |
| 11 | And then wherever you 've got rid of conductance think well they have n't given me that , they 've given me resistance , oh I had to write one over resistance turning it into conductance . |
| 12 | No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place . |
| 13 | Together to-day , taking disaster by the throat and turning it into victory , they have surely earned a place of honour that will be secure as long as men talk , or read or think of horses . |
| 14 | Most of the rest would help pay for disposing of the plutonium by generating electricity from it while turning it into waste . |
| 15 | His control is through their commitment to forming a clear vision of success and turning it into reality , and that vision includes the highest standards of self-discipline . |
| 16 | Now he 's turning it into reality . |
| 17 | Wrap ptfe tape around each fitting before screwing it into place in the radiator . |
| 18 | You ca n't edit this representation by calling it into Lotus and changing the parameters , but you can print out the graph . |
| 19 | A forceful demonstration that the law is failing to realize its own professed principles may have the beneficial effect of shaming it into action . |
| 20 | Throughout the Bible there are instances of tribal religion melting their heartfelt yearning for God and transmuting it into idolatry . |
| 21 | This was most evident on the wide plains of the south-western United States and several parts of South America , where cattle multiplied virtually without human effort , herded by gauchos , llaneros , vaqueros and cowboys , and called loudly to all profit-minded citizens for means of converting it into money . |
| 22 | It becomes easy to picture himself and Boswell here , their servant outside holding the horse 's head , while Johnson 's taxi , his post-chaise , waited : ‘ The arch of one of the gates is entire , and another only so far dilapidated as to diversify the appearance , ; Sam himself with his famous stick prodding in the weeds , gauging the cut of the stone as he might examine the shoulders of a friend 's new frock-coat , measuring distances , tracing nave , crossing , choir , transept — inhaling meaning and implication , and converting it into judgment and knowledge . |
| 23 | Substituting it into eqn ( 4.10 ) would always yield zero , and that is obviously incorrect because the right-hand side may be finite . |
| 24 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 25 | It 's not easy to stay detached , so keep your fear at bay by transforming it into anger — not uncontrollable fury but angry determination . |
| 26 | It also turns out that the ratio of proportions is rather cumbersome to handle when dealing with many variables at once , and no-one has yet proposed a way of decomposing it into component effects as they have with d s and with measures based on odds . |
| 27 | An independent State is presumed to have all the territorial competencies of a sovereign State from the time of its emergence as a State , irrespective of the terms of any treaty bringing it into existence . |
| 28 | As a means of confronting unemployment ( 9.5 per cent of the workforce ) the budget cut the tax on distributed company profits from 42 to 34 per cent , bringing it into line with that on retained profits . |
| 29 | The UK Environment Secretary , Michael Howard , announced on April 30 that the target for stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels had been brought forward from 2005 to 2000 , thereby bringing it into line with the EC position . |
| 30 | Iran , having captured the tract of marshland under which this major accumulation lay , was reported by its oil minister , Muhammad Gharazi , as contemplating bringing it into production . |