Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Motif at large in the Sun community , IBM and DEC are confident they could make inroads into the Sun installed base swapping out Sun machines for their own . |
| 2 | One chieftain , Wittikind , fled north to take refuge with the Danes , a race hardly known to the Franks at that time , but who would later make inroads into the empire . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman would do well to recall that the policies of so many Labour authorities leaving properties empty and voids untreated which significantly adds to the level of homelessness ; until those Labour authorities operate properly with their housing resources , they will not make inroads into the housing problem . |
| 4 | You get into too much whackiness when you suddenly start bringing spaceships into the plot . |
| 5 | On another occasion when I was involved in the tense process of bringing prisoners into the charge room in the central bridewell in Newcastle , a very precise ex-detective colleague ( by then a neat , uniformed chief inspector ) stopped me to exclaim on my appearance . |
| 6 | There are many reasons why it has been difficult for researchers to form links with universities , he says , with some not even sure that particular departments would survive investigations into the competence and integrity of the professors . |
| 7 | All our actions from crossing the road to buying gold involve projections into the future . |
| 8 | For a while people had dropped coins into the scarf in passing but since Tom began to sing , starting on his Mozart opera repertoire , a small crowd lingered . |
| 9 | In this as in other areas , the fundamental error in our approach to policing is revealed : we do not trust the police so we build safeguards into the way they exercise their power . |
| 10 | The environment for Windows add-on vendors is becoming distinctly unhealthy he says , as Microsoft adds functions into the base operating system . |
| 11 | Britain was almost alone in systematically , though at this period still modestly , absorbing businessmen into the aristocracy — bankers and financiers rather than industrialists . |
| 12 | Now , the word ‘ intended ’ is a decidedly slippery one and there is every likelihood that section 6(c) will both introduce uncertainties into the area and be used to sidestep some of the safeguards of the Act . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've found it increasingly difficult to attract youngsters into the game because of the success of , and publicity for , rugby league here , ’ Des Seabrook , coach of Orrell and Lancashire , said . |
| 14 | They may even introduce elements into the food which are detrimental to health and/or encourage pollution of the environment . |
| 15 | While all this was going on , of course , Carol was flitting about the opposite side of the shop helping herself from the shelves and tossing things into the pushchair , which with the canopy zipped up was acting as an oversize shopping trolley . |
| 16 | Hartlepool borough council , with the help of local people , has also concentrated its bid on renovating the town centre and particularly Church Street , hoping to attract firms into the town . |
| 17 | He did exactly what he was invited to do , place goods into the receptacle provided . |
| 18 | We took up our positions , driving stakes into the ground in the usual pattern . |
| 19 | Before too long heterosexual women had in fact taken over and they began to encourage men into the organization and to instigate the mixing of boys and girls into provision previously available to young women on their own ( but preserving the boys ' clubs ) . |
| 20 | If you send men into the forest you will find her frozen corpse in that cave she called her home . |
| 21 | THE LOTHIAN and Borders Fire Brigade has launched a recruitment campaign to attract women into the service . |
| 22 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 23 | ‘ Did they really have to trample crisps into the carpet ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do you want to come and throw shoes into the water ? ’ |
| 25 | Artists such as Turner , Cotman and John Martin came here to record the fiery scenes of the ‘ satanic mills ’ whose blast-furnaces belched flames into the sky and seemed to the Romantics something like visions of hell . |
| 26 | As the drumming built to a crescendo , the coffin lid snapped open , scattering coins into the dust . |
| 27 | United against Wycombe brought seven goals … a sending off and a penalty … which put Wanderers into the lead after just 9 minutes … |
| 28 | United against Wycombe brought seven goals … a sending off and a penalty … which put Wanderers into the lead after just 9 minutes … |
| 29 | Similarly , ‘ The Redeemer assumes believers into the power of his God-consciousness , and this is his redemptive activity ’ . |
| 30 | Some of the men had been collecting driftwood and dry sticks and branches from among the trees ; a small fire was coming to life , crackling and spluttering sparks into the haze of heat above it . |