Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were remanded into local authority care until 3 March , when they are to appear again . |
| 2 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 3 | Beneath the filmy topcoat he wore a black shirt and black trousers that were tucked into tall black boots . |
| 4 | The pinstripe trousers were tucked into green shooting boots with buckles at the sides , giving him a competent air . |
| 5 | The trousers were tucked into high boots , and Rostov saw that his son 's eyelids had been stained a shade of silver-blue . |
| 6 | It was difficult to refuse and thereby block their chances , but helping one student set a precedent ; any foreigners were plunged into moral dilemmas by their students who wanted help to go abroad . |
| 7 | They had taken an early lead with four points from Damien Short but when Oliver Lennon was sent off for a high challenge they were plunged into temporary disarray . |
| 8 | In order to have something to play on it , the company made half-a-dozen special recordings which were pressed into tiny records an inch and five-sixteenths in diameter . |
| 9 | There is no evidence that any miners were pressed into military service . |
| 10 | The areas of the five Saxon burhs were reorganised into Norman landships , the rapes , and given to the more powerful and trusty lay barons . |
| 11 | Gastrointestinal symptoms were grouped into upper gastrointestinal , which comprised dysphagia , heartburn , nausea , vomiting , upper abdominal pain ( and its relief by food or antacids ) or lower gastrointestinal comprising changed bowel habit , diarrhoea , constipation , rectal bleeding or lower abdominal pain ( colicky , associated with changed bowel habit or relieved by passing stool or flatus ) . |
| 12 | Analysis indicated that when the children were grouped into six-month age bands , the difference between the scores from each age band was significant ( p > 0.05 ) . |
| 13 | The limbs were modified into efficient paddles , perfectly adapted for sculling through the water . |
| 14 | If these matters were to pass into European competence in the way that the Liberal Democrats want , there would be an inevitable weakening of our controls and our frontier controls , which I am not prepared to accept . |
| 15 | His emotions were slotted into different compartments , and he locked up those that might get in the way of a safe drive back to the cottage . |
| 16 | But as the Tiananmen movement grew and grew , more and more Hong Kong people were stirred into sympathetic action . |
| 17 | Ranulf studied the painting curiously and felt a shiver of apprehension as he saw how the sinners were thrust into hot ovens , cauldrons of boiling oil , or broken on huge revolving cartwheels . |
| 18 | Her sizeable bottom and not-too-marvellous legs were thinly coated with bright yellow silk jeans ending just below the knee ; her bare feet were thrust into pink mules with diamond spike-heels . |
| 19 | Her huge breasts , so much at odds with the thin face and the bony arms , were pushed into great half moons by the table edge . |
| 20 | This was reflected in a polarised and divided political system , in which it was almost impossible to build a common democratic consensus especially as many of the moderate middle classes were pushed into right wing opposition of the republic by the initial government 's anticlericalism . |
| 21 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 22 | He wore blue leggings and his feet were pushed into soft leather buskins . |
| 23 | The country had its own rich textile heritage , and it is quite probable that motifs and compositions used in Indian tapestry — , cloth and fabric-weaving were incorporated into Persian rug designs . |
| 24 | Traditional steps were incorporated into warlike foot movements surmounted by expressive hand gestures . |
| 25 | Here the new physiological theories of the uncontrollable male instinct were incorporated into erotic fantasy . |
| 26 | The two Chelonians he had seen earlier were strapped into padded harnesses that suspended their front set of limbs conveniently over the main instrument panel . |
| 27 | Even if the number of households were to be suddenly increased , if , for example , all households consisting of more than one family were to split into single-family households , there would apparently still be a crude surplus of dwellings . |
| 28 | When the use in favour of C or D arose , C or D's uses were turned into legal estates by the Statute of Uses . |
| 29 | Three cloakroom areas were turned into small classrooms to release the library from timetabling for subject lessons , a scheme was devised for staff supervision of the library at all times , and a system of parent volunteers was instituted to help the library assistant . |
| 30 | Horses for sale were tethered at the sides of them and tack , leather and ironwork were displayed on the tail-gates which were turned into makeshift stalls . |