Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] [v-ing] into " in BNC.

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1 THE Echo Star Trophy series for senior racing cyclists is developing into a close battle following the Merseyside road race championships at Delamere .
2 Prize English possessions were passing into ‘ foreign ’ hands and the disgruntled Saxon nobility found voices for their jealousy in the Godwines .
3 His face was not more than a foot away from hers and his dark brown eyes were smiling into hers .
4 Completed questionnaires are flooding into Corporate Communication Service .
5 The French Commandos are tucking into a meal .
6 Only when the hollow reverberations of the horses ' feet on the timber rolled along the rock fissures below did he start out of his trance to the realisation that a company of mounted men was riding into Parfois .
7 ‘ I 've denounced facts which are there for all to see in the RAI accounts , and the public prosecutors are looking into some of them .
8 There is widespread panic and confusion , and thousands of Togolese citizens are fleeing into neighbouring Ghana and Benin .
9 Steeple-hooded types were settling into their seats , or buying refreshments and programmes from usherettes dressed in spangled tights and top hats .
10 Some pastors were diverting into a pious channel the unseemly activity associated with ‘ wakes ’ , at which strong liquor was consumed .
11 I expect to hear this morning from Yuli Voronpsov , the country 's deputy prime minister , that private contractors are moving into the Kremlin Hospital in Moscow .
12 She raised her head , hoping he might realise how tired she was ; her dark eyes were looking into his , exciting him all the more .
13 Then furious dark eyes were glaring into hers .
14 His dark eyes were burning into her .
15 Researchers from the University of California who have studied the area warn that the shyer rhinos are retreating into denser vegetation , away from their natural foraging grounds with the high protein grass on which they depend .
16 Crucial elements are dropping into place in the build-up to the 1992 America 's Cup , writes Keith Wheatley .
17 Pure-bred dogs are flooding into pet shops from ‘ puppy mills ’ in the mid-west , where a farm with 50 bitches can produce upwards of 1,000 puppies a year .
18 But now a new generation of Japanese collectors is coming into the market and their taste is for much stronger , more colourful things , such as prints by Miro .
19 These animals are moving into the ecological niche left vacant by the disappearance of the last big predators from Western Europe : wolves , bears and lynx . ’
20 Random images were pouring into his mind .
21 Daly found one of the hardest tasks was getting into Augusta National .
22 Private firms are moving into the field — there are two windpower consortia and a tidal power consortium ( involving DEC , McAlpines and Taylor Woodrow amongst others — along with the CEGB and British Aerospace ) and many smaller firms in the solar field : some 20,000 solar collector units have been installed in the UK so far .
23 There is a sign that big businesses on either large scale or multiple units are moving into this market , thus leading to a need for even closer monitoring in view of the vulnerability of many residents .
24 An AFP report of April 15 claimed that some 3,000 refugees were crossing into Bangladesh every day , and that the total refugee population was 205,698 .
25 Many governments are rushing into computers without carefully examining their needs .
26 In many ways , then , Europe 's machinery for the conduct of international relations was moving into a new era .
27 For the first time in Wigston 's long history a class of gentry was beginning to appear ; moreover , substantial holdings were passing into the hands of absentee landlords .
28 But in the 1970s students were flooding into English studies in previously unparalleled numbers across the range of relatively diverse institutions of higher education including the ancient and newer " civic or provincial " universities , the postwar " plate-glass " universities , and the polytechnics .
29 COMIC giants are flooding into Merseyside for this year 's Liverpool Festival of Comedy .
30 More customers are flooding into Tesco 's 401 stores , where they spend an average £30 a week , but that 's a three per cent drop on last year .
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