Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often people throw up ideas — ‘ Let's have so-and-so as a speaker on Tuesday and a dance on the Wednesday and a banquet on Thursday ’ — without ever stopping to think how any of these will help reach goals or fit into the overall time . |
| 2 | The tank 's equipment can either be disguised , as in an informal tank , or incorporated into the formal aquascape . |
| 3 | However old or ill one might be , there is something healing and comforting about stroking the soft fur of a purring cat or looking into the trusting eyes of a faithful dog . |
| 4 | There was one positive side for deaf people arising from the War : with so many men volunteering or going into the Armed Services , there was a desperate shortage of labour in the workplace , especially in munitions factories . |
| 5 | He went to the window , made sure her car was n't coming , or turning into the communal garage . |
| 6 | Like mustard gas , the nitrogen mustards caused blisters when they came into contact with skin , and they damaged many other tissues when they were absorbed or injected into the circulating blood . |
| 7 | The times had simply passed when one could conquer France , conquer Belgium , conquer Holland , even conquer Eastern Europe , and say , ‘ This is the same as moving into Africa or moving into the Far East ’ . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , on the subject of the clash between the normativist and functionalist styles of public law — which emerged in the Franks Committee 's investigations over the question of whether any body responsible for supervising administrative tribunals should be detached from or integrated into the Supreme Courts — the Committee came down firmly in favour of integration . |
| 9 | Mendel 's theory argued that only characters already present in the genes ( or introduced into the genetic material through random mutations ) could be inherited . |
| 10 | Davis , a fastidious master , brought out all its natural sweetness without ever suggesting the saccharine or slipping into the over-sentimental . |
| 11 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 12 | The sunken panels or coffers used by the Romans as decoration were formed between the brick ribs or cut into the solid concrete . |
| 13 | And when the corrections were pasted on , they frequently dropped off or slipped into the wrong place during the journey to the cameras . |
| 14 | Several hundred yards away , Riessa was in a strange humour as she strode down the worn steps that led into the hollow heart of the Wyrmberg , followed by half a dozen Riders . |
| 15 | He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves . |
| 16 | She had reached the top of the narrow wooden stairs that led into the single upper-storey chamber she shared with her mother . |
| 17 | The best way to reduce the amount of rubbish that goes into the domestic bin is not to persuade people to sort out unwanted recyclables . |
| 18 | It will accept data vie the serial port or via a 40Mb disk that fits into the single PCMCIA Type III slot . |
| 19 | unc Not all fractions have denominators that fit into the decimal system . |
| 20 | There was no understanding here of my intentions in a body of work that ventured into the unfashionable field of Romanticism , an exaggeratedly retinal approach , at a time when Concept Art was the rage . |
| 21 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
| 22 | In his ‘ Small History of Photography ’ , Benjamin ( 1979a , p. 248 ) notes that in photography 's early mid-nineteenth-century days , ‘ the client ’ who came to be photographed was ‘ the member of a rising class equipped with an aura that seeped into the very folds of the man 's frock coat or floppy cravat ’ , but that the later ‘ imperialist bourgeoisie ’ lost its aura in its ‘ deepening degeneration ’ , its Jugendstil photos featuring a fashionable ‘ twilight ’ and a ‘ non-auratic pose ’ . |
| 23 | He stood up , his deep blue glance moving over her in a slow appraisal that burned into the very pores of her skin , and she realised , in those few heart-stopping moments , what a mistake it had been to confront him . |
| 24 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 25 | But Hilary Witt , head of Cambridgeshire 's catering service , admits : ‘ The trouble is , going into a school hall for dinner is less exciting than going into the Wimpy bar . |
| 26 | McDonnell , his promoter Barry Hearn and trainer Darkie Smith clearly believed that going into the final round McDonnell had a chance of winning the super-featherweight title on points . |
| 27 | The social reformers who staffed the think tanks that fed into the right wing of the Conservative Party and who advocated the restructuring of education , the dismantling of the welfare state and the restriction of local government power , needed a theme through which to proselytise their views . |
| 28 | And it 's an anaerobic condition that gets into the nervous system and causes nerve paralysis in such a way that you get acute muscular contractions . |
| 29 | Stockwell said some 50 Rangers , from the 400-strong elite unit that flew into the anarchic city two weeks ago , moved on the building during the night . |
| 30 | In exchange I had a view over the wide , flat-bottomed valley , a view that dissolved into the fish-fin ridge on the far side . |