Example sentences of "[vb -s] into a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a hot-head who has done time for killing a man , he develops into a union organiser who discovers the eloquence his new role demands . |
| 2 | The molluscan egg develops into a larva , a minuscule animated globule striped with a band of cilia , which is swept far and wide by ocean currents before , after several weeks , it changes its shape , grows a shell and settles down . |
| 3 | An unfertilized egg develops into a male . |
| 4 | A further increase in the parameter c gives a change in the shape of the attractor , which develops into a Rossler funnel as it expands with increasing c . |
| 5 | Growth proceeds from a small crystal nucleus which develops into a fibril . |
| 6 | The game then develops into a relay race , with the members of each team having to head the balloon to a marker at one end and then back so that the next person can take over . |
| 7 | The effect of introducing just this one gene is to switch off some genes and to set in train a sequence of gene activation so that the cell develops into a muscle cell with all the appropriate proteins — master gene is an appropriate description . |
| 8 | If an egg is fertilized by a male , it always develops into a female . |
| 9 | They may be historical , comparative or descriptive : Comparative This traces the movement by which the most primitive form of the language group develops into a number of different languages . |
| 10 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 11 | She matures into a woman who can not be judged by ordinary rules because she does n't play by them . |
| 12 | Amstrad 's ad for a double-headed cassette player also heads into a court-action , as the BPI anti- home-taping folk nearly have a heart-attack . |
| 13 | What sort of woman , I asked myself , drops into a jeweller 's for a brooch costing thousands of francs , between buying a gigot and a gâteau St Honoré ? |
| 14 | The debate over recreation and access in the countryside therefore easily fragments into a plethora of parochial disputes , with constantly shifting allegiances and alliances , and one which oscillates between each of these three alternative solutions . |
| 15 | ‘ That someone from Royston ambushed Irvine and murdered him , ’ I replied coolly , ignoring the rage which changed Catesby 's open-faced , ploughboy looks into a mask of fury . |
| 16 | Their walk is accompanied by the strident tones of jazz-style music which dissolves into a calypso as Peter enters the section of the school in which he teaches , leaving Kathie to walk on to her class . |
| 17 | But this tone soon dissolves into a miasma of melancholy . |
| 18 | ( i ) In Section 1.5 we proved that each non-zero non-unit element of Z factorises into a product of irreducibles in an essentially unique way . |
| 19 | Before the house it widens into a mere where hundreds of Canada geese gather . |
| 20 | THE STAGE is a backyard bounded by a palisade of rusty corrugated iron ; two ladders lead up to a balcony , a tap drips into a can . |
| 21 | A journey in a camper shades into a lift with a driver who turns out to be a narcotics agent ; the former episode is then repeated , with sado-masochistic variations , until that too shades into a bus journey . |
| 22 | The time to do experiments is also cut ; the computer compresses into a matter of minutes reaction times that could take hours in animals . |
| 23 | For Peter this prejudice erupts into a situation of conflict . |
| 24 | ‘ We talked in the living-room which merges into a conservatory choked with potted plants like a burgeoning rain forest . |
| 25 | Sadly , negative memories are often strongest and the recollection of adequate but unexceptional four and five-star hotels merges into a chintz and marble blur . |
| 26 | It is evident from the Northwestern Utilities case that once the defendant proves the act of a stranger , the point is reached when a claim based on the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher merges into a claim in negligence , so that if there is no fault the plaintiff will not succeed . |
| 27 | A man climbs into a machine and takes to the air and crosses the English Channel . |
| 28 | Dressed for the city , he kisses the Yorkies on the head and climbs into a jeep with heavy tread tyres . |
| 29 | His change of bank with the same g sends his nose up and he climbs into a barrel roll . |
| 30 | An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track . |