Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing they are being formed into a new secret police — with the aim of destroying glasnost and perestroika ? |
| 2 | This whole world was being plunged into a dreadful silence . |
| 3 | Finniston admits that being plunged into the deep end of commercial decisions he inevitably made mistakes in the early stages , although he is not prepared to take the blame entirely . |
| 4 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what research is being undertaken into the use of straw as a renewable source of energy . |
| 6 | Metered dose inhalers should be carried with their safety caps on to prevent foreign bodies entering them and being propelled into the bronchial tree when they are discharged . |
| 7 | The danger now is of being lulled into a false sense of family security . |
| 8 | There 's an uneasy sense of being lulled into an acceptance of the unacceptable in Gregory 's work . |
| 9 | As Summerson remarks of London , the Reform Bill of 1832 marked the final end of that tradition , and thereafter ‘ social responsibility was gradually shaken out of the aristocracy without being shaken into the bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 10 | All these sauce-boats were low and flat-bottomed with waved or scooped rims and concave sides , later followed by examples with a rounded body , spout and handle ; the low foot rim being developed into a short stem . |
| 11 | Anyone on the verge of being clapped into the loony bin as one more pathetic case of cold coffee dementia can telephone the firm free and be saved . |
| 12 | ’ This conclusion is contemporary with the abandonment of Sweeney Agonistes and with Eliot's ' being received into the Church of England . |
| 13 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 14 | He said it was a tragedy that councils ' energies were being diverted into a fight to preserve local democracy . |
| 15 | One senior representative of an existing cash & carry said that MAKRO will ‘ obviously pose a threat ’ , not only to that trade but also to supermarkets , which will be hit by trade being diverted into the MARKO ‘ discounting ’ — through holding one of the membership passports . |
| 16 | The obstacle to disarmament in this case is not ambitions of superiority but the fear on each side of being tricked into a position of inferiority . |
| 17 | On 11 March 1812 he volunteered for the San Domingo ( 74 guns ) , probably to avoid being pressed into the navy . |
| 18 | Or perhaps you 'd find being hounded into the ground by an amateur detective positively rib-splitting ! ’ |
| 19 | As the advancing British , Soviet and Yugoslav forces closed in on southern Austria , this left enormous numbers of fugitives being squeezed into an ever smaller area . |
| 20 | Silicon Graphics ' endeavour to produce a floating-point intensive R4000 part by next year in conjunction with Toshiba Corp , called TFP ( UX No 380 ) , is being re-integrated into the MIPS unit , taking some 40 Silicon Graphics engineers along with it . |
| 21 | So the exact er nature of this balance and how waters between contact with the atmosphere are being mixed into the deep sea , cos remember this equilibrium can only be occurring in surface waters cos only they are in contact with the gas phase how that turnover of deep water 's occurring affects just how much capacity we 've got for absorbing C O two in the oceans and therefore mitigating the greenhouse effect . |
| 22 | Marcus lying bloodied and broken , at this very moment being lifted into an ambulance , the red blanket being pulled up over his beautiful face . |
| 23 | For centres , it shows that significantly more ‘ customers ’ are being attracted into the advanced courses system . |
| 24 | Peel , reviewing the development of the social sciences , suggests that " sociology was made a reasonably unified subject by the Americans who welded together very diverse streams " , which , by the 1940s , " was being synthesised into a mainstream of theory to which most ongoing research was related " . |
| 25 | ‘ I remember , ’ Frank said bleakly , with the familiar sensation of being sucked into a morass . |
| 26 | Maggie was being sucked into a pit of water that seemed to go down forever . |
| 27 | Maggie felt herself being sucked into a pit of water that seemed to go down forever . |
| 28 | BRITISH troops are on the brink of being sucked into a war in the blood-stained Balkans . |
| 29 | Our investigation uncovered a growing network of abusers who are being sucked into a dangerous sub-culture which ends with hard drugs like heroin and crack . |
| 30 | There was the frightening sensation of being sucked into an invisible vortex , some dark cavern of the senses where she could no longer stand back and resist , where she could only feel … |