Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years a register of marriages and baptisms was regularly kept ; but since the Parliamentry Churches , with the districts annexed , were erected into parishes quoad sacra , the minister at Portnahaven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register . " |
| 2 | For several years a register of marriages and baptisms was regularly kept ; but since the Parliamentry Churches , with the districts annexed , were erected into parishes quoad sacra , the minister at Portnahaven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register . " |
| 3 | Finally , six representatives of France and the United States were parachuted into Viet Minh headquarters on 16 July 1945 . |
| 4 | In the following year a general Act condemned depopulation ( although not engrossing as such ) , declaring that in towns where previously 200 persons were occupied , there were now only two or three herdsmen , and the rest were fallen into idleness . |
| 5 | Under the legislation of the nineteenth century tithes were commuted into tithe rentcharge , an annual sum varying with the price of corn . |
| 6 | Quickly the rows were gathered into sheaves and tied . |
| 7 | Whilst at one time the personal characteristics of children , and the circumstances in which they were received into care , set them apart from other children not admitted into care , the norms of family life for children inside and outside of public care could no longer be regarded as so different from each other . |
| 8 | On the eleventh day they gathered up their belongings , packed up their tents and were formed into companies so they could be addressed by the Commanding Officer of the Regiment . |
| 9 | They were formed into Djawa Hokokai ( Javanese Service Movement ) and instructed to organise neighbourhood associations for communal purposes . |
| 10 | The systematic way cars were broken into make police believe the thefts were carried out by thieves combing the streets looking for likely targets . |
| 11 | Helicopters dropped experts onto unsuspecting villages in Nepal ; Tunisian women were coerced into buses to have loops inserted without explanation ; African women were given contraceptive injections against their or their husbands ' wills . |
| 12 | They were plunged into darkness , and the spectacle of the comets of white light arcing to the sea , and the ear-splitting crashed of thunder , became pure theatre . |
| 13 | CITIES across Britain were plunged into chaos as bomb hoaxes emptied busy shopping centres and brought transport systems to a halt . |
| 14 | Once more the Elf realms were plunged into chaos . |
| 15 | The Company was always alive to the traffic potential of sporting and other events , not only at the Crystal Palace and as well as running extra cars on Saturday afternoons between the ‘ Pawleyne Arms ’ Penge and Selhurst for football traffic , all spare cars available from both depôts were pressed into service between West Croydon and ‘ Cold Blows ’ , Mitcham Common , when Mitcham Fair took place each year . |
| 16 | In 1989-90 , Pipe utilised 149 horses to win those 224 races ; last season 179 horses were pressed into action to achieve the record . |
| 17 | Shovels , wheelbarrows and a friend were pressed into action . |
| 18 | The bodies of the soldiers from the Royal Regiment of fusiliers were flown into RAF Brize Norton last March . |
| 19 | The pilot circled while camera crews were rolled into position and a few smoke pots were lit to put some smoke across the runway . |
| 20 | The boreholes were drilled into windows of Mesozoic rock and provide evidence of the sub-Tertiary geology of the North Rockall Trough which is now being explored by a number of oil companies . |
| 21 | In his London Shadows Godwin even finds a function for the voyeurs who made it fashionable to tour the slums ‘ and wonder at the peculiarities of that strange land ’ , because ‘ it was partly owing to these visits that some improvements were carried into effect ’ . |
| 22 | Nothing in the Report of Professor L. C. B. Gower on Review of Investor Protection ( 1984 ) ( Cmnd. 9125 ) , the recommendations of which were carried into effect by the Act of 1986 , elucidates why the distinction was made . |
| 23 | They were dropped into coaling barges and slung into boiler furnaces with the rest . |
| 24 | Paratroopers were dropped into Croatia , breaking the 10-day siege of Kijevo by Serbs and delivering food and medical supplies , and also into western areas of Bosnia-Herzegovinia , where they released the military convoy held up by Croatians . |
| 25 | Heavy beams were lifted into place using a wooden hoist , but a lot of the work was done by sheer muscle power and would have been carried out by slaves . |
| 26 | It may be reasonably speculated that English ethnocentricity , then as now , would assume that , first the Scots and later the Irish , were let into Westminster , but the legislation gives no warrant for this assumption . |
| 27 | The agreement followed a spate of oil spills since the March 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster [ see p. 36541 ] which included three large oil spills in US waters in June 1989 : ( i ) on June 23 , 650,000 gallons of fuel oil were spilt into Narragansett Bay off Rhode Island by a Liberian-registered tanker , World Prodigy , after it struck a reef ; ( ii ) on June 24 a Uruguayan tanker , Presidente Rivera , spilled 800,000 gallons of industrial heating oil after hitting a rock in the Delaware River , Delaware ; and ( iii ) also on June 24 a tow-barge spilled 250,000 gallons of light crude oil in Galveston Bay , Texas , after a collision with a Panamanian cargo ship . |
| 28 | Bacteriophage M13 containing wild type and mutant forms of the HSV-1 IE-3 cap site region ( 21 ) were transfected into E.coli strain JM101 . |
| 29 | Equal numbers of TC-fresh LC and TC-cultured LC ( 5x10 4 per well ) were added into wells at the initiation of the binding assay . |
| 30 | He lifted his head , but still without looking at me ; his huge hands were clenched into fists . |