Example sentences of "by [noun pl] [verb] into the " in BNC.

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1 The most simple and primitive in contemporary use , these looms have changed little since their inception several millennia ago ; they consist of four wooden beams which are laid out flat and secured by pegs driven into the ground .
2 By the end of the century many paleontologists supported the theory of orthogenesis , in which variation was supposed to be pushed in some preordained direction by forces built into the constitution of the organisms .
3 A demonstration on April 2 by up to 3,000 people outside the DP headquarters in the capital , Tirana , was dispersed by police firing into the air .
4 The march was allowed by police to pass into the vast Manezh Square beside the Kremlin walls after it had overspilled the intended venue for its concluding rally , outside the Moscow city soviet building on Gorky Street , but a heavy police cordon prevented the marchers from entering nearby Red Square .
5 Thomas and Mungham show how the duty solicitor scheme was created and evolved , ostensibly as an act of public service but chiefly as a significant part of the struggle by outsiders to break into the cartel .
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