Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [vb pp] into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Along the way you 'll pass medieval castles , vineyards , great towns and the infamous Loreley Rock from which a dark mermaid is said to have lured mariners to their death ( your cruise should successfully navigate the rock as the mermaid appears to have gone into retirement ) .
2 In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse .
3 The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to .
4 Cable & Wireless Plc 's Mercury Communications Ltd seems to have run into trouble with its trial of personal numbering announced last August : at that stage it was saying that trials of the technology — which would enable subscribers to use any phone to inform the network of their whereabouts — would begin in the autumn of last year .
5 The selection seems to have taken into account the moves within London University to amalgamate some colleges and form five science centres .
6 The ‘ Hoabinhian ’ culture of southern China and Indochina to Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra seems to have brought into cultivation candle nut ( Aleurites moluccana , Euphorbiaceae ) , betel nut ( Areca catechu , Palmae ) , species of Canarium ( Burseraceae ) and Terminalia ( Combretaceae ) for their fruits , cucumber ( Cucumis sativus , Cucurbitaceae ) , the bottle gourd ( Lagenaria siceraria , Cucurbitaceae ) and the betel pepper ( Piper betle , Piperaceae ) between 8000 and 3000 BP .
7 The term ‘ New Criticism ’ seems to have come into circulation with the publication in 1941 of a book of that title by the American poet and critic John Crowe Ransom .
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