Example sentences of "[v-ing] it into [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It has seized and deformed it , in each region twisting it into a latent value-system which , put into an abstract , depersonalized form , has in one place produced the French revolutionary ideal , in another Anglo-Saxon liberalism , elsewhere communism , Muslim fundamentalism , social democracy , Buddhist socialism , and many other secondary forms .
2 The expression on his face had grown hard and grim as he 'd scanned the paper in his hands , before angrily crunching it up into a ball and hurling it into a nearby waste-paper basket .
3 Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up .
4 This quest for the singular , the contingent event which by definition refuses all conceptualization , can clearly be related to the project of constructing a form of knowledge that respects the other without absorbing it into the same .
5 Then er it it 's only gon na be a case then of knocking it into the same style for all
6 Thomas moved , knocking it into the red weed .
7 The engine was redesigned by Mickie eliminating the airscrew , reversing it in the airframe , and incorporating it into a modified model W-4 autogiro airframe .
8 The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ?
9 He removed the stereo from his brother 's car , to make it look as if it had been stolen , before pushing it into a water-filled quarry .
10 That will increase Fleet/Norstar 's assets by 40% to $47 billion , catapulting it into the top rank of American banks .
11 It is a practical issue because by taking information out of the analogue world , the ‘ real ’ world , comprehensible and palpable to human beings , and translating it into the digital world , we make it infinitely changeable .
12 A landfall had probably blocked off the river centuries back , forcing it into a fresh path .
13 a system is abolished only by pushing it into hyperlogic , by forcing it into an excessive practice which is equivalent to a brutal amortization …
14 UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal .
15 McDonald outlines it thus : ‘ A : find the best artists you can ; B : keep them in a creative mood so that they make the best records they can , and C : maximise the sales of the records everywhere without turning it into a real form of drudgery for them . ’
16 As a result , the nineteenth-century approaches had misconceived the nature of God 's Word itself , turning it into a spiritual ideal , a heroic example , or a set of ethical norms , and interpreted Jesus accordingly , instead of recognising in him the perennially contemporary event of the encounter of time with eternity , the intersection of the finite by the infinite , by which everything human and creaturely is contradicted in its self-enclosedness and opened up to the reality of God .
17 After a while , though , dismissing her memories , Ruth began to like it ; the sun was behind the mist , turning it into a glimmery silver haze ; and at least it was a different sort of weather .
18 Even the simplest VAT eats up 2–4% of its revenues in administrative costs ; the BTU tax may eat up as much as 10–20% , turning it into a full-employment programme for bureaucrats .
19 When this happens , some people respond by pouring paraffin over that fire , turning it into a blazing inferno ( i.e. panicking , hyperventilating , catastrophizing , avoiding , etc. ) , while others sensibly dampen down the blaze with a wet blanket ( i.e. relaxing , thinking positively , goal planning , problem solving , and self assertion ) .
20 He largely reshaped this family business , rescuing it from near bankruptcy in the 1860s , extending it into tinplate in Monmouthshire , carrying through several amalgamations , and turning it into a public company in 1902 .
21 The Tory party is often an amiable shambles , but the Maastricht process is turning it into a neurotic press gang .
22 ‘ Tell him Edward 's turning it into a conservation area for endangered species .
23 I mean many people wrote disparagingly about your attempt , your nerve in taking on a gem of the New York stage and turning it into a British directed movie .
24 At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer .
25 Herrhausen and Mr Reuter wanted to accelerate Daimler 's hesitant steps towards diversification , turning it into a huge manufacturing conglomerate capable of leading German industry to a high-tech future and big enough to compete with the giants of American and Japanese industry .
26 With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys .
27 In this way Ulthuan drains magic out of the known world and prevents the tide of magic overwhelming everything and turning it into a seething realm of Chaos .
28 The Schwarzlose could also be fired from a monopod , turning it into a light machine-gun .
29 Because making the material itself is a lot harder than turning it into a rudimentary bomb , it is the tight control of plutonium and uranium that has until now restricted the spread of nuclear weapons .
30 Like the Tubwell torrentor it had a disconcerting habit of flooding the road and turning it into a muddy cesspool .
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