Example sentences of "be [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money . |
| 2 | The driver , Patsy Gillespie , who was also killed , was described by the IRA as a " collaborator " for having carried out construction work for the security forces , and had been coerced into a similar operation previously at the Fort George Army base in the city . |
| 3 | With matching moves in Britain and Japan designed to galvanise their moribund monopolists , all the leading players have been propelled into a global contest . |
| 4 | Dismissing fears that her daughter might have been tricked into a fake marriage by a man determined to ruin her , Nora tried to think more positively , but her brain persistently returned to the appalling question , ‘ Why an Italian , for God 's sake ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Look , ’ said Edwin Pettigrew to Mark , ‘ our Roman Catholic friends are being whisked through all the formalities , and Mark saw that the priests had been gathered into a little group under the leadership of a jolly-looking , curly-haired Irishman with a strong brogue . |
| 6 | The way in which these points are developed into a practical scheme can be seen by the case study school , Alsager Comprehensive School . |
| 7 | ‘ However , with the help of considerable capital funding from the ITI , and through a joint venture approach with Sutton Borough Council , who provided capital , land and an annual subsidy , the original concept has been developed into a working model aimed at serving as an example for other local authorities to consider . ’ |
| 8 | Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia . |
| 9 | Kielder Water , the largest man-made reservoir in Europe , surrounded by the largest man-made forest in Europe , was opened by HM The Queen in June 1982 , and has been developed into a major water-sports centre . |
| 10 | This hierarchical data structure , initially conceived as a method of organizing and controlling three-dimensional draughting procedures , has subsequently been developed into a general engineering management system . |
| 11 | In Leicestershire , a six acre disused quarry had been developed into a large fish pond providing an attraction for anglers and the farmer with a lucrative alternate source of income . |
| 12 | The pilot scheme proved to be a great success and has now been developed into a continuing professional development programme for all pupils in the year 1992/93. is now wholly involved in coordinating this scheme for the Bar . |
| 13 | Luce froze , realising how easily she 'd been lulled into a false sense of security . |
| 14 | Of recent years , the fair had been lengthened into a fortnight-long frolic called Edwardian Days , finishing two weeks before Christmas . |
| 15 | After the US invasion the Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) had been remodelled into a new Public Force , currently numbering about 12,000 men . |
| 16 | The Detailed Spectrum Investigation results have been amalgamated into a proposed table of frequency allocations and use . |
| 17 | The highly charged politics of national identity that have been occasioned by these developments have been transposed into a higher , shriller key by current concern over the appeal of a wide pan-European disposition tailored to the new range of possibilities that flow from tighter political and economic integration of the European Economic Community . |
| 18 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
| 19 | It certainly did not mean that the two movements had been fused into a single whole . |
| 20 | If someone stands at the front of the play , at the front of the stage and says , you know , I believe in democracy , then you know you are let into a political play , yeah . |
| 21 | With Raskolnikov the issue has been naturalized into a restless and greedy discontent . |
| 22 | More specifically , it has been proposed that the related ideas expressed in a discourse are organised into a coherent whole or schema — to use the concept first developed by Bartlett ( 1932 ) . |
| 23 | Corporatism can be defined as a system of interest representation in which the constituent units are organised into a limited number of singular , compulsory , noncompetitive , hierarchically ordered and functionally differentiated categories , recognised or licensed ( if not created ) by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their respective categories in exchange for observing certain controls on their selection of leaders and articulation of demands and supports . |
| 24 | It has been dropped into a black hole for the duration of the campaign at the insistence of the spin-doctors . |
| 25 | Her sleep was black and absolute , as if she had been dropped into a bottomless pit . |
| 26 | Thanks to the Prime Minister 's ban on benefit for unemployed 16 and 17-year-olds , another 21,000 youngsters have been sucked into a black hole where there is no job , no school , no training and no benefit . |
| 27 | Our reporters uncovered a generation who have been sucked into a dark underworld of solvent abuse and hard drugs . |
| 28 | Others may genuinely believe that even lengthy dreams have been compressed into a brief period . |
| 29 | MacKenzie 's five-octave voice has been subdued into a cool , torchy moan . |
| 30 | In males , the frenular bristles are fused into a single stout structure which is normally held by a curved process from the subcostal vein of the fore wing as well . |