Example sentences of "[verb] into a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that fascism was played out in England and that the IFL should merge into a new organization that he planned called the ‘ National Union of British Workmen ’ . |
| 2 | These opposites would merge into a terrific show . |
| 3 | The group of organisms — the flock of birds , the pack of wolves — does not merge into a single vehicle , precisely because the genes in the flock or the pack do not share a common method of leaving the present vehicle . |
| 4 | Robyn 's insides clenched into a tight ball . |
| 5 | She could feel that the muscles in her stomach were clenched into a tight ball . |
| 6 | The buildings erupted into a towering inferno as the plane , carrying only four people , exploded on impact . |
| 7 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 8 | Reg Seekings , who came from No. 7 Commando , remembers an incident right at the beginning when they got fed up with erecting tents , that nearly erupted into a minor mutiny . |
| 9 | NEWCASTLE 'S Anglo-Italian Cup game against Ascoli erupted into a 22-man brawl by the touchline five minutes from time . |
| 10 | In the centre of the room , the light gathered into a curling ribbon and solidified , erupted into a rippling curtain of sparkles . |
| 11 | At the downstream end it rose into a little hump . |
| 12 | A ragged and halting procession made its way down the street , and the voices of the crowd rose into a single roar . |
| 13 | Because it is so easy for women to slip into a shared area with each other , they may at times have a fear of doing so , in case they lose their individuality . |
| 14 | ‘ Prof ’ Francis always turned up at celebrity concerts and was often able to slip into an empty seat at intermission . |
| 15 | His mouth was compressed into a straight line and his brows were drawn together . |
| 16 | Her mouth was compressed into a tight line . |
| 17 | His mouth compressed into a hard line . |
| 18 | Others may genuinely believe that even lengthy dreams have been compressed into a brief period . |
| 19 | Montgomery made his own examination of the body , his mouth compressed into a thin line of concentration . |
| 20 | His lips were compressed into a thin line as he awaited some explanation . |
| 21 | Lips compressed into a thin line of tension , she strode along the corridor and into her office , wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of stale air . |
| 22 | They were like chips of blue ice , his lips compressed into a thin line . |
| 23 | She was white and her lips were compressed into a pale line . |
| 24 | Day and night are compressed into an eight hour day , so you see everything our castaway hero can get up to . |
| 25 | Dora 's mouth compressed into an aggressive wedge . |
| 26 | Across the tracks was ‘ Jack 's Chicken Shack ’ , a Negro hangout that sold bootleg liquor after the county went dry around 1952 , and Sheffield began to grow more ashen and dusty , shrivelling into a near semblance of a ghost town . |
| 27 | In this model this desirable ‘ professional style ’ consists of collections or sets of values attached to different aspects of the work ( such as the administration of drugs , carrying out aseptic technique , basic theoretical knowledge such as anatomy , physiology , pathology and so on ) , organised into a complex structure which characteristics the nurse 's attitudes to the work . |
| 28 | An obvious problem is that a text is not made up of collections of sentences , but of sentences organised into a coherent whole . |
| 29 | More specifically , it has been proposed that the related ideas expressed in a discourse are organised into a coherent whole or schema — to use the concept first developed by Bartlett ( 1932 ) . |
| 30 | Corporatism can be defined as a system of interest representation in which the constituent units are organised into a limited number of singular , compulsory , noncompetitive , hierarchically ordered and functionally differentiated categories , recognised or licensed ( if not created ) by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their respective categories in exchange for observing certain controls on their selection of leaders and articulation of demands and supports . |