Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of the concepts outlined above we could express Marx 's views thus : the economic class of proletarians ( propertyless sellers of labour power ) will necessarily become increasingly homogeneous in respect of income levels and conditions of life and work ; this will result in the increasing ‘ non-pertinence ’ of social collectivities based on branch of industry , religion , nationality , sex etc. , and the increasing pertinence of the social collectivity coterminous with the proletariat itself ; eventually as a result of the process of struggle this social collectivity will become organised into a corporate body — the trade union movement — and a political force : the communist movement or party . |
| 2 | In a similar manner , if cells of the sponge ( the bath sponge is the skeleton laid down by the sponge ) are separated into a random mixture of individual cells they will actively move around and become reorganized into a normal sponge , with the cells in the correct relationship with one another . |
| 3 | Whereas most novel beliefs can become anchored into the cultural patterns of common sense , there is something special about the transmission of scientific ideas in the modern age . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , therefore , entrepreneurs and managers can become locked into an existing company structure which may perform not particularly well but adequately enough to survive , or to survive while its position is steadily being undermined by import penetration . |
| 5 | A hazard is a threat which , given a set of circumstances , may become translated into a realized event . |
| 6 | The Colonel was in a hurry , realising how essential it was to keep the momentum of the attack rolling ; otherwise the resistance might become coordinated into a strong , interlocked series of defence positions . |
| 7 | ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise . |
| 8 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 9 | At best it seems , a national strike would have developed into a bitter war of attrition which the unions , with their meagre resources , could only have lost . |
| 10 | In five years time from now it will have developed into an all powerful , constitutionally independent institution responsible for the Community 's monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 11 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 12 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 13 | If Tess had moved in his arms , they would both have fallen into the dangerous water . |
| 14 | The door opened unexpectedly , and he would have fallen into the dark kitchen were it not for the fact that after four inches it jarred and stuck . |
| 15 | ‘ But somehow , they became rooted in the reserves , whereas we felt they should have zoomed into the premier league and joined the elite of beat . ’ |
| 16 | You could have vanished into a Scotch mist and taken a boat to one of the Western Isles — with all the plate and linen , etc. , etc. — for all I am aware . |
| 17 | No , I should not have moved into the second Person . |
| 18 | Some have intimated that these contacts , while not illegal , raise suspicions that the superfund 's huge cache for money may have turned into a political slush-fund , spread around to fertilise the candidates of loyal Republicans . |
| 19 | It could have turned into an ugly ruck pretty quickly . |
| 20 | Scanning the names of judges , senior policemen , politicians , journalists and hoodlums , together with the abrupt manner of their disposal — shot , strangled , dissolved in acid , fed to pigs — the reader is left in little doubt that , although today 's Mafia may have grown into a global enterprise , it is still a long way from joining the ranks of the world 's leading multinationals . |
| 21 | If she had n't come into the family … his family , would Matthew have turned out the way he was now , or would he have grown into a fine young man with a greater sense of responsibility towards his sister ? |
| 22 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 23 | ‘ And he could have got into the other parts ? |
| 24 | They could n't have got into the main part of the school . |
| 25 | The speaker was an ambitious young graduate , seeking accelerated promotion and not pleased at the notion he might have got into an accident-prone unit . |
| 26 | He could scarcely have packed into a single letter more matter offensive to the ideals of the reformed papacy . |
| 27 | There was an element of choice in Sukarno 's arrest ; he could have escaped into the surrounding countryside , but he awaited capture , perhaps calculating that in arresting him the Dutch were outraging international opinion . |
| 28 | It was unfortunate for Virgin that in applying for ‘ exemption ’ to fly into America they should have walked into a simmering row between the American and British governments over the British refusal to allow PanAm to operate a third frequency across the Atlantic . |
| 29 | There is no good intellectual reason why the study of the British constitution should have slipped into the static sterility of the constitutional approach . |
| 30 | He accepted Christianity when the missionary Poppo proved the efficacy of the Christian god by undergoing the ordeal of carrying hot iron , and may have entered into a subordinate relationship with the German emperor Otto I. However , he rebelled after Otto 's death in 973 , and the following year was defeated at the Danevirke , a Danish defensive rampart in southern Jutland connected to the east with the important town of Hedeby . |