Example sentences of "[to-vb] it into an " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 2 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 3 | Imagine a sheet of material that contains the dye , cross-hatched to divide it into an array of small squares . |
| 4 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 5 | The corporatist view , by perceiving the company as a unit which welds together the interests of its participants into a harmonious common purpose defined as the public good , seems to draw on the ideal of community and seeks to inject it into an area which the dominant legal ideology regulates through contract and hierarchy . |
| 6 | The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so . |
| 7 | In fact , it closely resembled the constitution of the Consulate established in 1800 , and like its predecessor it would require little change to turn it into an Empire . |
| 8 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |
| 9 | Once a strategy is agreed it is up to the copy writer and art director to turn it into an advertising idea or ideas . |
| 10 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 11 | At present , EUP is effectively a University department , and Mr Martin 's task is to transform it into an independent company , albeit one wholly owned by the University . |
| 12 | For ( 3 ) we might have : where the sentence S encodes a function f of possible contexts ( c ) to transform it into an utterance u . |
| 13 | In February , it swept past Jupiter with British instruments on board , harnessing the planet 's gravitational field to hurl it into an orbit enabling study of the poles of the Sun in 1994–95 . |
| 14 | When this opening was created between two rooms , elegant display shelving , storage cupboards and stylish Victorian lace curtains were added to make it into an attractive feature |
| 15 | The clever part is that this frame can be manipulated to make it into an irregular shape as required to match the text to the graphic . |