Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add the flour gradually , beating all the time , until the dough is still soft and sticky but can be gathered into a ball . |
| 2 | He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence . |
| 3 | For example , a prediction can be tied into a later encounter in the Castle , or to an encounter on the way back to the adventurers ' base . |
| 4 | In psycholinguistics , an item 's meaning , it is said , can be analysed into a number of semantic markers — components or features also found in the meanings of other items , eg the -ly of an adverb such as clearly — and a distinguisher , which is the residue of meaning after the markers have been deducted ( clear ) . |
| 5 | Recriminations are unavoidable , but try to keep their volume down and turn negative complaints into positive suggestions ( 'You never help with the washing-up' can be turned into a helping rota or rewards ) . |
| 6 | This principle is not confined to any one set of living conditions , for where meaning , order and joy are generated , then any environment can be turned into a welcoming home . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I was famed for not having an aversion to the media , but I am sure every virtue can be turned into a vice . ’ |
| 8 | Even an area a few metres square can be turned into a mysterious little haven , where every turn of the path reveals something fresh and exciting . |
| 9 | It perpetuates the loneliness of the single mother , since both she and a male friend will be cautions of continuing a relationship that can be turned into a financial arrangement on the whim of a civil servant . |
| 10 | And with a little extra trouble it can be turned into a splendid party dish — not for a grand formal party to be sure , or even a buffet party , but the sort of meal for intimate friends when you can put all the food on a huge scrubbed kitchen table and everyone sits round and helps themselves . |
| 11 | In particular , through nominalisation almost any expression can be turned into a noun phrase and used in a quasi-referential function . |
| 12 | Greenpeace estimates that fresh fuel can be turned into a nuclear weapon in only seven days , and that spent fuel can be converted for use in as little as one month . |
| 13 | The other way is that it can be duplicated into a new DNA strand . |
| 14 | These may be specifically tailored to the workplace which one individual student will be attending , or more general tasks can be incorporated into a Work Experience diary . |
| 15 | In fact , Sargent shows how the restrictions can be incorporated into a maximum likelihood procedure so that the restrictions can be tested using the likelihood ratio . |
| 16 | you can move them in and out of word processing ( WP ) packages so that a message received in e-mail can be incorporated into a document which you wish to send on or work on ; and , |
| 17 | From these can be gathered a handful of needle-thin stuff that can be pushed into a pocket while you collect slightly thicker material . |
| 18 | The group intends to specify information that can be integrated into a variety of network management environments . |
| 19 | The structure of dialogue , moreover , disallows the taking up of any position beyond the interlocutors from which they can be integrated into a larger totality . |
| 20 | The reader is first introduced to the simple stepping action of the variable-reluctance and hybrid types before going on , in later Chapters , to consider how the motor can be integrated into a complete system . |
| 21 | Given the limited number of transistors that can be integrated into a single chip computer , the RISC high-level language is implemented mainly using software , with hardware support for only the most time consuming events such as the passing of parameters in procedure calls . |
| 22 | The scattered primary ion loses some of its energy to the target atom which , in turn , can be recoiled into a forward direction as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 23 | This , Lukes argued , is the most insidious form of power in that we can be manipulated into a course of action or believing in a set of values without realising it . |
| 24 | The assembly fields can be extended into a set of logical fields by including knowledge of how the sub and elemental fields must interact to provide the specified function . |
| 25 | These principles can be projected into a third dimension to describe complex volumes ; and then into a time dimension , as in the cinema and television . |
| 26 | An orthographic projection can be converted into a geometric perspective by inscribing the ground and roof plans on the bottom and top of the box respectively ; and the left , right , fore and aft elevations on the vertical sides of the box . |
| 27 | By a small shift in the balance of power between the genders , the harem system can be converted into a matriarchy . |
| 28 | Any substance can be converted into a homoeopathic remedy and used in this way . |
| 29 | If leaves are a problem during the autumn months , the machine can be converted into a garden vacuum . |
| 30 | Also the rate of change of heading can be converted into a rate of turn . |