Example sentences of "[Wh det] were [verb] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were Styria ( Steiermark ) , acquired by the Habsburgs in 1278 ; Carniola ( Krain ) and Carinthia ( Kärnten ) , which came to the Habsburgs in 1335 ; and Trieste , Görz-Gradisca and Istria , which were absorbed into the expanding Austrian realm later in the fourteenth century . |
| 2 | Only a few years ago , during the " Hundred-Year Ceremony " propitiating the Gungung Agung volcano on Bali , Indonesia 's President Suharto attended the sacrifice of over eighty animals , including leopards and eagles , which were cast into the smoking crater . |
| 3 | It was confined to a small border strip of 20,000 square miles and 1,500,000 inhabitants , encompassing Roslavl' and Smolensk , but excluding important districts centred on Vitebsk , Gomel , and Mogilev which were incorporated into the RSFSR . |
| 4 | But before that stage was reached , the far-reaching social and economic changes brought about by the post-emancipation process of modernization , industrialization and the growth of capitalist relationships in Russia also found their idiosyncratic expression in Siberia , newly enlarged by the territory of the Amur and Ussuri regions which were incorporated into the empire at China 's expense by the visionary efforts of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia , N.N. Muravev-Amurskii ( treaties of Aigun , 1858 , and Pekin , 1860 ) . |
| 5 | The current treatment of gonorrhoea was the use of strong antiseptic solutions , which were run into the urethra under considerable pressure with the idea of irrigating the urethra and washing out any pathogenic organisms . |
| 6 | The anomalies revealed here are the direct result of ageist assumptions , which were built into the social security system at the outset and have been reinforced by successive governments . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The survey showed that the main impact of the four to six million barrels of oil which were poured into the Gulf during the 1990-91 Gulf War was limited to the northern shores . |
| 9 | Police sources said it was the detonator — with a small package of Semtex at its core — which failed to ignite and set off the bags of nitrate-based fertiliser which were packed into the rear of the van . |
| 10 | Each sequence was cloned into the Sma I site of pUC19 , except for the ( TA ) 10 and ( GC ) 9 G inserts which were cloned into the Sma I site of pUC13 . |
| 11 | They marched into the stadium in matching denim jackets , mini-skirts ( which were brought into the country by the US team captain , Marty Reissen ) and dark glasses . |
| 12 | It was not until 1876 that she started the meetings for mothers which were to develop into the Mothers ' Union . |
| 13 | He had been under pressure from Edward III to do so for some time , but he seems also to have feared that Charles V 's forces , which were advancing into the duchy , might revive the rivalries of the civil war period . |
| 14 | German immigrants brought their sausage-making skills , while native Red Indians introduced the early settlers to corn and sassafras leaves , which were ground into a unique thickening and flavouring agent called filé powder , which is used in Gumbo . |
| 15 | The animals were part of a flock of 70 sheep which were driven into the brook , apparently by a stray dog . |