Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly 300 litres of diesel oil were spilled into a tributary of the River Tamar in Plymouth yesterday after vandals released the fuel from a tank in a timber yard . |
| 2 | Willie sat on a chair as his feet were placed into a measuring gauge . |
| 3 | These were placed into a microfuge tube with 50 µl of water and boiled for 5 minutes . |
| 4 | Aliquots of egg lecithin were placed into a glass test tube and flushed to dryness under a stream of nitrogen at 37°C , and subsequently lyophylised for 18 hours ( biles 3–7 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But these identifiable elements were blended into a new pattern , which owed its existence to Gloucester himself . |
| 7 | But these identifiable elements were blended into a new pattern , which owed its existence to Gloucester himself . |
| 8 | Er much to everybody 's fear , really , because we , we , we were stepping into a new area , you can imagine from , from wires to something with no wires , and the risk of that failing , but , but it worked and er from thereon , of course most Fire Brigades have taken on the task and , and er are now on radio contact of this kind . |
| 9 | Improvers and locals were plunged into a confusion both economic and wider . |
| 10 | THE explorers Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud were tucking into a hearty breakfast of eggs yesterday after being airlifted to safety from the icy wastes of the Antarctic . |
| 11 | In order to impose some consistency on the data , and to make bibliographic searching by author easier , the Rolfe listings were rearranged into a single file in alphabetical order of thesis author . |
| 12 | An unhappy story to end up with , is that when passenger services ceased on the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway , all the remaining tickets were tipped into a ring of bricks and burnt . |
| 13 | In the introduction to a book on Man and Environmental Processes ( Gregory and Walling , 1979 ) the pointers available were resolved into a century of milestones ( to 1960 ) , a decade of papers in the 1960s and a decade of readings in the 1970s . |
| 14 | During the course of one week four hundred guests were booked into a hotel . |
| 15 | Then the wax and the brood combs , with all the pollen , dead bees and larvae , were dropped into a pot by the fire , and hot water poured in . |
| 16 | Following that line , we were walking into a minefield . |
| 17 | In the dark a stranger to the house could think they were walking into a room . |
| 18 | She could feel that the muscles in her stomach were clenched into a tight ball . |
| 19 | Tragic Linda Wolage , 28 , and her husband Andrew were catapulted into a garden by a careering car as they returned from a day out at the zoo . |
| 20 | Foucault argued that the period around 1800 saw the breakdown of the ‘ classical ’ view of natural relationships in which species were slotted into a conceptual grid whose structure was determined by the human mind . |
| 21 | In 1946 the mines were nationalised with the vigorous support of the miners after sixty years resistance by the coal-owners , and shortly afterwards the petty bourgeoisie of the medical profession were organised into a National Health Service . |
| 22 | After the management fired the union leadership , initially 86 per cent of workers voted to go on with the strike , but eventually they were cajoled into a ‘ second union ’ started by white collar staff who wanted to cooperate with the company ( and many of whom were to receive rapid promotions from the grateful management — see also chapter 16 ) . |
| 23 | His lips were compressed into a thin line as he awaited some explanation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was white and her lips were compressed into a pale line . |
| 26 | even fewer would deny that the CMHTs were precipitated into a virtual policy vacuum and were in effect used as one means of developing a broader framework rather than as a means of implementing an already established strategy . |
| 27 | His lips were twisted into a peculiar lop-sided smile . |
| 28 | New Statesman and New Society were merged into a single publication 18 months ago . |
| 29 | But the Nord goods stations went through one more transformation in 1937 when , in pursuit of efficiency and streamlining , all the goods depots were merged into a single , centralized complex with a single controlling authority , a chef de gare principal . |
| 30 | Sure enough , soon afterwards Weibel and Gallardo were pushed into a van . |