Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] into [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done . |
2 | a system is abolished only by pushing it into hyperlogic , by forcing it into an excessive practice which is equivalent to a brutal amortization … |
3 | Because all shareholders will benefit if performance improves ( either through Usurping present management or by frightening them into improved performance ) , why should any rational individual be the one to incur the costs ; why not leave it to someone else ? |
4 | Iran has , after all , infringed British sovereignty by forcing it into massive protection for one of its own citizens . |
5 | The government also proposed a new media policy , giving the television service , Doordarshan , and All-India Radio autonomy by turning them into public corporations , similar to the status enjoyed in the United Kingdom by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) . |
6 | Once you have the technique in hand you can use 24 stitch repeats by punching them into 12 stitch repeat cards , provided that they are a repeat of either four stitches , six stitches or 12 stitches . |
7 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
8 | Furthermore , plants utilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that animals eject , and animals Bean yet more energy from the environment by utilizing the oxygen that plants eject by converting it into new combinations of chemicals . |
9 | This material can be used in reactors by converting it into mixed ( MOX ) fuel . |
10 | The average builder will probably have put in just a single central pendant light in each room , so we have to add extra lights by plugging them into precious socket outlets ( precious because the builder does n't put enough of these in either ! ) . |
11 | Labour 's transport spokesman , John Prescott , called on the Government to rescue the project by taking it into public control . |
12 | The clubs reacted by increased policing of the fans and by herding them into segregated areas of the terraces . |
13 | The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR ) , alleging that the census form was designed to weaken the Hungarian minority by dividing it into four or five ethnic groups , condemned the census , and called on Jan. 14 for an alternative census of the Hungarian population to be carried out . |
14 | Fred Brimacombe , lobster seller , Plymouth , on the city council 's proposal to stop fishermen killing lobsters by throwing them into boiling water . |