Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A free trade agreement with Israel initialled in July [ see p. 39025 ] was signed on Sept. 17 ; it was designed to enter into force ( subject to ratification ) on Jan. 1 , 1993 — EFTA 's first such agreement with a non-European country .
2 A new export-processing zone near Lomé , designed to attract foreign capital and develop non-traditional exports , was expected to come into operation after the publication of enabling decrees by the Council of Ministers in May 1990 .
3 The protocol disbanding the treaty , which called for the promotion of a gradual shift towards all-European security structures on the basis of agreements achieved at the Paris CSCE ( Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe ) summit in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , was expected to come into effect by the end of the year , once it was ratified by all six parliaments .
4 He was expected to slip into management with ease , but instead Moore moved into business , running a pub .
5 Mr. Gage said : ‘ Graham had just finished a contract with Dundee Utd and was looking to get into management .
6 The appeal was rejected and the order confirmed , although a slight reduction was made to take into account the days he spent in detention before his administrative detention order was issued .
7 In 1942 he was persuaded to go into hospital , where he was said to be schizophrenic .
8 The method of analysis of covariance was used to take into account the small , random differences in severity of disease between treatment groups at the commencement of the trial that arise when random allocation is used .
9 He did not dwell on the hyena spotted in blood that Abraham was going to throw into hell on the Day of Resurrection , or on the necessity of chopping male infidels into small pieces .
10 She forced me back into the hall , where I was bound to run into Father .
11 Mr Murdoch , like Mr Gower , has a way of playing that was bound to run into trouble .
12 By the very nature of the jurisdiction it exercised the Court of Chancery was bound to come into conflict with the courts of common law .
13 The socialist parties thought of themselves as the avant-garde of a class which was striving to bring into existence a new kind of society , and for them the struggle for power of the working class was , in principle , more important than any existing institutions .
14 By the 18th century the castle was beginning to fall into disrepair , and in the 19th century it changed hands several times .
15 Wolf 's exciting plates were engraved by J. W. and Edward Whymper , the famous mountaineer ; but by Wolf 's day the new technique of photography was beginning to come into use in scientific illustration .
16 By the 1930s , some part at least of the more advanced views of the previous two decades was beginning to percolate into society as a whole .
17 The agreement was scheduled to come into force in 1992 , once ratified by all signatory countries .
18 The accord , which followed two years of negotiations , was scheduled to come into force in September 1994 .
19 The treaty was scheduled to come into effect on Jan. 1 , 1993 , after ratification by the national parliaments and by the European Parliament ( EP ) .
20 The Treaty was formally signed by representatives of the Governments of the Twelve on 7 February 1992 , and was set to come into force on 1 January 1993 following Parliamentary ratification by each of the Member States ‘ or , failing that , on the first day of the month following the deposit of the instrument of ratification by the last signatory State to take this step ’ ( Article R ) .
21 Even if he was forced to go into hospital , what can we do after that admission ?
22 When the Junto ministry collapsed in 1700 , and William was forced to admit into office the Tory Earl of Rochester and his High Church followers , they were able to demand that Convocation be allowed to sit .
23 Eventually , the management decided they were on to a loser , and the matter was allowed to sink into history .
24 Johanna was allowed to go into town because there was little else for her and other youngsters to do , said her father , Robert , 40 .
25 By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 .
26 About five years ago , when Alan was campaigning to get into parliament , he accepted an invitation to take part in a student debate here at Breakspear .
27 The earl also issued warrants for collecting the fines imposed at Forest Eyres : in 1638 a ‘ Messenger of His Majesty 's Chamber in Ordinary or his deputy ’ was ordered to take into custody those who refused to pay .
28 He had wanted this change , not least because he felt that the rural Church was being neglected , that progressive Church thinking was forgetting to take into account that huge section of the population whose rhythms were dictated by quite other influences than urban ones .
29 Kim Philby , who had got a job at last with SOE and was working to get into SIS , fed rumours to the Russians that Hitler was behind the flight , and wanted Churchill to join him on an eastward march , or at least stay neutral while he did the job himself .
30 For example the convention of cabinet collective responsibility was suspended to take into account the particular circumstances of the campaign prior to the referendum on continuing British membership of the EEC .
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