Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The technology was invented in the early 1920s by Anton Flettner , a German naval engineer , and has since fallen into undeserved oblivion .
2 Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years .
3 The world 's first industrial country has clearly fallen into relative decline on many measures of industrial competitiveness .
4 Tadpole has also moved into new quarters so it can start manufacturing stateside for orders worldwide .
5 The company has also thrown into reverse certain interest rate-fixing arrangements at a cost of £25.5 million .
6 Its wholesale arm has now gone into compulsory liquidation .
7 This , in turn , means that all titles must sell internationally : ‘ To date have n't had one book that has n't gone into foreign editions . ’
8 In contrast , the main evening news programme , ‘ Vremya ’ , has voluntarily lapsed into stirring stories about tractors .
9 The Health Ministers of Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Cuba , Ecuador , Peru , Venezuela and Spain met in the Bolivian city of Sucre on April 20-23 to discuss possible joint action to stem the cholera epidemic which first broke out in Peru in late January [ see p. 38002 ] , and had since spread into neighbouring Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Ecuador ( but not as yet into Bolivia or Venezuela ) .
10 In His place , and with His power , something else had slowly congealed into transcendental existence .
11 Within a few seconds they had all vanished into tiny , black holes .
12 Unfortunately Britain had already run into major problems with Iran and Egypt .
13 By mid 1977 , Morrissey 's letter writing had already climbed into local notoriety .
14 Carter remained loyal to the 1960s ethos , and there 's an elegiac tone to some of these pieces that suggests the necessary work of iconoclasm had already passed into other hands .
15 The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain .
16 Nevertheless , in early agricultural societies that had not developed into totalitarian welfare states child-rearing assumed a new and crucial importance which it had not possessed in the primeval hunter-gatherer societies ( except perhaps by default : that is , by not really existing as a means of cultural repression ) .
17 The day before he had just bumped into Mauve , ‘ happily delivered of his large picture , ’ who had promised to call in .
18 The two broad movements which had won the June 1990 elections , Civic Forum in the Czech Lands and Public against Violence in Slovakia , had both split into competing parties , which , apart from Klaus 's Civic Democratic Party , generally failed to win the minimum of 5 per cent of votes in either part of the country needed to gain representation .
19 They had both changed into dry clothes .
20 Thereafter Anselm gave him such aid as he could against the despoilers of his see among the Norman barons who had recently penetrated into southern Wales as far as Pembroke .
21 Some of these ‘ Hartnellisms ’ have since passed into lexical history …
22 Some have wholeheartedly entered into liturgical experiments which have included the re-ordering of space and furniture , new services and music , and the use of musical instruments other than the organ .
23 They have all blossomed into world-class talents , and their counties have prospered with them .
24 The Malaysians , in the process of razing their own country 's rainforests , have become world experts in the quick-timber business ; local problems in places such as Sarawak have suddenly expanded into international threats — and any country in the world with any tropical rainforests left is in danger of getting the full , ruthless Sarawak treatment .
25 Recently taken over by Tom O'Donoghue and upgraded and modernised , Lansdowne have also expanded into nearby houses , where the Lansdowne School of Sound Technology has been located .
26 Famous for their unisex jeans , Joe Bloggs have now moved into ladies-wear .
27 Of course in local industry here we 're very strong , or were very strong in the traditional electromechanical teleprinter field , and erm they have now moved into microelectronic solutions for such things and indeed , again , they 're very strong in local industry here , and they 're finding that the flexibility offered by using a microcomputer , not to mention the reliability and so on , is again greatly enhanced by the use the microcomputer rather than traditional movement of keys through bars and so on through to the heads , say , of the device .
28 The traditional cattle raids have now turned into full-scale battles with machine-guns replacing spears .
29 At least The Mission have n't turned into redundant dinosaurs like those bastards The Cult , although ‘ Hands Across The Ocean ’ is fairly ordinary goff fare with only Hussey 's clear cut vocals standing out of the mix .
30 At least The Mission have n't turned into redundant dinosaurs like those bastards The Cult , although ‘ Hands Across The Ocean ’ is fairly ordinary goff fare with only Hussey 's clear cut vocals standing out of the mix .
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