Example sentences of "[n mass] were [verb] into [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the present example the data were entered into a file from a terminal using free format , and a program was written to re-format the data according to the requirements of the SYMAP program .
2 The full seven bands of image data were loaded into an ERDAS ( Earth Resources Data Analysis System ) software system and ground control point information entered to rectify the image to National Grid coordinates .
3 One general spoke of ‘ unforeseeable consequences ’ if US war planes escorting transport aircraft were drawn into the conflict .
4 To investigate this pattern , the researchers transferred fry in the study stream to 25 pairs and , sure enough , only fry the same size or smaller than the pairs ' own offspring were accepted into the fold , while larger fry were eaten or driven away .
5 The last fish were tossed into the barrels and the last handfuls of salt ; and then the crowd pressed closer as old Jan Treffry started the barrel count .
6 More people were drifting into the club , all of whom asked Erika how her interview had gone .
7 In its first six months of operation , over 1600 people were accepted into the programme , resulting in over 250 new businesses starting to date .
8 In the British Empire , people were divided into the British and the natives .
9 Women , peasants and young people were drawn into the political arena for the first time .
10 The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process .
11 Not only did Nonconformists suffer severely under the savage penal laws , but a whole range of other people were drawn into the process of enforcing them , which meant that they could be forced to decide whether their sympathies lay with Dissent or with the intolerant Anglican establishment .
12 This proved more feasible for the Incas than the Aztecs but eventually , with varying degrees of repression , the indigenous people were brought into the Catholic fold .
13 Thousands of ordinary people were forced into the fray .
14 Thousands of young people were drafted into the ‘ Army of Knowledge ’ which was to bring literacy into the countryside .
15 People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’
16 We have already seen that white-collar staff were introduced into the engineering industry as programming adjuncts to CNC machine tools .
17 Foucault argued that the period around 1800 saw the breakdown of the ‘ classical ’ view of natural relationships in which species were slotted into a conceptual grid whose structure was determined by the human mind .
18 When the alkali works were converted into the Oldbury Alkali Co .
19 Some of his Latin works were translated into the major European languages .
20 Much later , these salmon were released into a lake and left to mature .
21 The sheep were pushing into the fold , stumbling and bleating .
22 We know for instance that quite often erm pillaged flocks of cows and sheep were driven into the quad as one of the few open spaces within the city walls .
23 The sheep were driven into the garden of the local Prefect .
24 KW is derived from the same basic sunspot data set as FCL but the raw maximum-to-maximum and minimum-to-minimum length series were combined into a single series before applying a 7-term binomial filter .
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