Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dragonfish has expanded them into spectacular defensive weapons , each ray barbed with poison . |
| 2 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 3 | Their diligent enforcement of the Government 's industrial laws has helped to transform the role of the trade unions ; their role as guarantors of public order has led them into bitter conflict with pickets and demonstrators . |
| 4 | You will need to turn them into green teachers … and that will be even more difficult . |
| 5 | Now this time we do n't need to change them into twelfths could you add that 's a half add a sixth ? |
| 6 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 7 | As seen in Fig. 5 , these residues are in the vicinity of the same duplex of DNA as the recognition helix , although adjustments to the model will have to be made to bring them into proper position to interact with DNA . |
| 8 | Director Tony Downes says that IBM has published details in the past , for example for Physical Unit 2.1 , and while these prove a useful guide , he says , there is a good deal of interpretation needed to turn them into usable products . |
| 9 | These week-end visits are such a success that Howard and Felicity begin to expand them into full-scale house parties — the Chases , the Waylands , and Luci Hayter , all at once ; the Bernsteins , the Goodys , the Chyldes , and Charles Aught ; the Kessels , the Keats , the Schaffers , the Chases , and Francis Fairlie . |
| 10 | They have been too ready to use one or other of the clashing theses as occasion served , without troubling to bring them into intelligible relation . |
| 11 | We began sorting them into different area sizes as we were getting confused with those we had and did n't have . |
| 12 | It turned out that she did n't realise they were down , but thinks she must have pushed them into that position when dropping the ribber . |
| 13 | The Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 22 that those who had fled from countries where rebel forces had attempted to coerce them into military service were not entitled to political asylum . |
| 14 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 15 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 16 | It could be only a very moderate charge , in the darkness , since any gallop could have put them into dire trouble over unseen obstacles , whinbushes , ditches and the like . |
| 17 | However , when the courts are considering new situations , they will not be constrained by trying to fit them into existing categories . |
| 18 | Two world wars had drawn them into close and cooperative contact with government . |
| 19 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 20 | She had seen people die , she had seen them give birth , she had chopped them into little pieces : more significantly , with Charles she had achieved orgasm , which she had never managed with Edgar . |
| 21 | What I will write here will be in a language most will understand and , wherever possible , I have thrown out complex biochemical concepts , trying to translate them into simple concepts that everyone will understand . |
| 22 | In supporting a transition to adulthood , how does youth training differentiate between groups of young people ? for some young Black trainees , disproportionately represented in workshop-based schemes , the programmes serve to shape them into acceptable employees within a market which discriminates against them and to ease them gently out of their aspirations into the reality of restricted choice ( Corbett 1990 ) . |
| 23 | Yet it has often happened that attacks on such alternative groups , by established opinion , have shifted them into conscious opposition as distinct from conscious dissent or the offering of a conscious alternative . |