Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] into [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly 300 litres of diesel oil were spilled into a tributary of the River Tamar in Plymouth yesterday after vandals released the fuel from a tank in a timber yard . |
| 2 | Many otters died after toxic chemicals were spilled into the river but its hoped the new otter homes will encourage hundreds to return . |
| 3 | There was a significant negative correlation between breath hydrogen excretion and mouth to caecum transit time suggesting that with shorter transit times significantly more carbohydrates were spilled into the colon . |
| 4 | Even if no more water were to flow into the aquifer , water would flow out , like the air from the tyre , until the pressure was no longer enough to lift the water above ground level . |
| 5 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 6 | These were placed into a microfuge tube with 50 µl of water and boiled for 5 minutes . |
| 7 | Aliquots of egg lecithin were placed into a glass test tube and flushed to dryness under a stream of nitrogen at 37°C , and subsequently lyophylised for 18 hours ( biles 3–7 ) . |
| 8 | No frogs developed if nuclei from adult frogs were placed into the egg . |
| 9 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 10 | On the surrender of the abbey to the king 's commissioners in December 1539 , the buildings assigned ‘ to remain undefaced ’ were given into the custody of its former steward , Sir Edward Baynton , but all those ‘ deemed to be superfluous ’ were committed to Stumpe as Baynton 's deputy : they included the church , cloister , chapter house , dormitory , frater , and infirmary . |
| 11 | You were given into the care of people who reared you well . ’ |
| 12 | A number of investigations were undertaken into the scale and direction of Partnership funding during the late 1970s ( Hall , 1978 ; Nabarro , 1980 ; Lawless , 1981a ) . |
| 13 | Zahedis chateau Lafite and other vintage were pouted into the embassy fountain , and he was publicly denounced as having bribed congressmen and journalists with drugs and call girls . |
| 14 | Last year in Seoul diocese alone , more than one hundred thousand converts were received into the Church . |
| 15 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 16 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | And how many officers were to go into the flat ? |
| 18 | When I woke in the morning , we were drawing into the bank . |
| 19 | Lighter spirits such as vodka and white rum had become more popular , the report said , along with a growing array of speciality spirits and spirit-based drinks , all of which were eating into the whisky market . |
| 20 | The Romanov family were marched into the basement of a house then turned to face a dozen executioners jostling in the doorway for room to shoot . |
| 21 | 42 consecutive patients referred to the regional renal unit for management of acute renal failure ( serum creatinine >500 mol/L ) were enrolled into the study , which had been approved by the local medical ethics committee . |
| 22 | Improvers and locals were plunged into a confusion both economic and wider . |
| 23 | Her feet were plunged into the water . |
| 24 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 25 | Soon they were driving into the hospital car park . |
| 26 | They were driving into the city now , and she looked around her , seeing it with different eyes for the first time , seeing it as a garrulous old lady with so much to tell to anyone willing to listen . |
| 27 | An unhappy story to end up with , is that when passenger services ceased on the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway , all the remaining tickets were tipped into a ring of bricks and burnt . |
| 28 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 29 | In the introduction to a book on Man and Environmental Processes ( Gregory and Walling , 1979 ) the pointers available were resolved into a century of milestones ( to 1960 ) , a decade of papers in the 1960s and a decade of readings in the 1970s . |
| 30 | The ground was split and vast chunks of rock were carried into the sky by the rising tide of magic . |