Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv prt] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases , where large aa lavas flow from land into the sea , this is true , and great quantities of steam are generated , while the lava is broken up into small glassy fragments which pile up in thick heaps at the front of the flow . |
| 2 | Plan the layout so that the page is broken up into short paragraphs with sub-headings and highlighting through the use of emphasised test and underlining giving the message impact and more chance of getting through . |
| 3 | The development department is broken down into product-oriented sectors which , in turn , are divided into discipline-oriented units . |
| 4 | A second principle is that a difficult task ( and nobody doubts that dieting can be very difficult ) is far easier to accomplish if it is broken down into small , manageable pieces . |
| 5 | The required action is broken down into small segments and a reward is given when the next segment of action is correctly performed — even if this is done by chance . |
| 6 | If a sponge is forced through a fine gauze sieve so that it is broken down into separate cells , these will eventually reorganise themselves into a sponge , each kind of cell finding its appropriate place within the body . |
| 7 | The strong linear flavour emphasizes , of course , the flatness of the picture plane and this effect is further strengthened by the fact that the entire picture surface is broken down into angular forms of almost equal size , which are all dealt with in the same vigorous technique . |
| 8 | The substrate ( carbohydrate , fat , protein ) is broken down into pyruvic acid ( 3C ) . |
| 9 | Further research is carried out into rural lifestyles in the 1840s . |
| 10 | Restaurants , cafes and a couple of seasonal shops line part of the shore , some of which is made up into sandy beaches . |
| 11 | When the big fish needs to eat other little fish , it signals it is switching back into normal hunting mode by jerking its jaw in a particular way . |
| 12 | The real issue is that the power of the female to gestate is brought back into symbolic conjunction with the generation of the divine presence , a conjunction excluded by patriarchal religion for four millennia . |
| 13 | The third form is ‘ part process ’ in which not only is head office administration spatially separated but the actual production process is split up into discrete bits which are carried out at different spatial locations . |
| 14 | Because of the scattered distribution of food , the orang-utan population is split up into small dispersed foraging units and the flexible nature of orang-utan society allows them to exploit irregular fruit distribution better than territorial monkeys or gibbons , for example . |
| 15 | karting is split up into different classes … age and engine size decides all that but it is a sport that anyone can have a go at … |
| 16 | The concept of purpose is creeping back into scientific explanations . |
| 17 | This mode of relating , which starts between the mother and the infant , is taken over into subsequent situations such as enterprises , I suggest . |
| 18 | At central level , there are four government departments , one in each country , and at local level , each country is divided up into administrative areas for educational administration . |
| 19 | Clearly the colour spectrum is a continuum which is divided up into distinct units by colour terms . |
| 20 | A sentence is divided up into meaningful segments . |
| 21 | The relevant population is divided up into manageable groupings ( or " clusters " ) and then randomly sampled , perhaps on a strata-only basis as in ( a ) above . |