Example sentences of "was [verb] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE American presidential campaign was plunged into new controversy last night when Hillary Clinton , wife of the embattled Democratic hopeful Bill Clinton , sought to counter allegations of her husband 's marital infidelity by airing the same charges against President Bush . |
| 2 | By the time term had ended , as you know , the Government was plunged into various difficulties of its own , which naturally took up all your attention . |
| 3 | THE Government was plunged into fresh turmoil over the troubled Maastricht treaty last night after a successful parliamentary ambush by Labour ended in scenes of chaos and confusion in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | JOHN Major was plunged into another U-turn row last night after a marathon Cabinet meeting over spending cuts deteriorated , according to some , into a ‘ dogfight . ’ |
| 5 | JOHN Major was plunged into another U-turn row last night after he was accused of backtracking over public spending cuts . |
| 6 | The shirt was tucked into high-waisted trousers , and the trousers into soft calf-length boots which were embossed with gold . |
| 7 | After attacks by Tito partisans , the Russkii Korpus was formed into 5 regiments in 1942 as the Schutzkorps , under German command , as part of Army Group E , and was used against Tito partisans and briefly the Red Army . |
| 8 | There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate . |
| 9 | While management attention was diverted into new projects it also missed obvious opportunities : the company took decades to figure out that it could sell work-wear as well as party dresses . |
| 10 | When serotonin was given into coronary arteries there was a 52% increase in cross-sectional area in normal arteries , a 64% reduction in patients with angina , and total occlusion in subjects with Prinzmetal angina . |
| 11 | ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’ |
| 12 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 13 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 14 | A shed was broken into some time between Thursday night and Friday morning and electrical tools worth £100 were stolen . |
| 15 | He said that Madge 's house was broken into last night . |
| 16 | A bus parked overnight at Templemore School was broken into last Thursday and two fire extinguishers were taken . |
| 17 | The Romanian factory which produces replicas of the Lotto strip was broken into last week — with nearly 500 Blues shirts stolen . |
| 18 | A much more flexible and pro-active strategy was needed , unless Labour was to pass into total oblivion . |
| 19 | In the light of what was to follow , it could be argued that Scapula was panicked into rash measures , excusable only as military necessities , but their effect on the Britons was to be as deplorable for them as for Rome . |
| 20 | As a child as young as 12 , he was instituted into corrective centres , made to pay the price of his adolescent indiscretions . |
| 21 | It had been a bitterly cold day , and the gravel underfoot was frozen into tight lumps . |
| 22 | The turf , dense and springy after the summer 's rain , was rolled into even stripes which led the eye away to the pine woods in the middle distance ; the forest obscured what had once been an inspiring view of the valley of the Dee , but shielded the castle from curious passers-by on the road that followed the river banks . |
| 23 | The patrol was dropped into Western Iraq by helicopter , but poor information meant there were problems from the start . |
| 24 | The Sierra was smashed into four pieces in the accident . |
| 25 | Blood was collected into chilled tubes containing EDTA and the plasma was separated promptly and frozen at -20°C . |
| 26 | It was a classic imperial response in every sense , and it is not surprising that it was to feed into Fascist Italian and German canons of architectural taste . |
| 27 | Wallace was a different animal , who , through a combination of circumstances and personal courage , was thrust into broader horizons . |
| 28 | It is the first such appeal , and it is made under the provisions of section 19A of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , which section was incorporated into that Act by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 29 | This effect gathered force as it was incorporated into political strategy , picked up by other media , entered into gossip , and thus came to overshadow immediate reality as it might have been recorded by an observer on the scene . |
| 30 | This reflects the so-called doctrine of double effect which was incorporated into English law in one of the few cases that have been decided in this area , R v. |