Example sentences of "had been [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been tossed into a bed of nettles against the wall of the churchyard . |
| 2 | The driver , Patsy Gillespie , who was also killed , was described by the IRA as a " collaborator " for having carried out construction work for the security forces , and had been coerced into a similar operation previously at the Fort George Army base in the city . |
| 3 | Finally the coffee was steaming in its pot , as hot as good coffee should be ; the cream had been fetched from its place on the cold stone slab in the pantry and poured into its jug , sugar cubes had been decanted into a tiny flowered porcelain bowl which matched the pot and the jug , together with a matching cup and saucer . |
| 4 | The decision was made after councillors watched a video of a fox being mauled by a terrier that had been sent into a flooded drain to catch it . |
| 5 | Johnston 's Communism , therefore , had been transmuted into a nationalism which emphasised economic independence , state planning and the unity of a wide range of social groups in the tasks of nation-building . |
| 6 | On returning to Cyprus that spring , he found that the march of technology had continued in his absence and that all the CpFNS field offices had been hooked into a central computerized database installed by Link Systems , Ltd , a US government ‘ cut-out ’ company set up to carry out the contract for UNFDAC . |
| 7 | Opposition to Home Rule had been canalized into a patriotic war and so the party ended the war in a confident mood , as it had begun it . |
| 8 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 9 | Virgin , he claimed had been precipitated into a compromise with Sting largely because their key witness was unreliable . |
| 10 | A final decision about segmentation would not be made until at least some words had been integrated into a higher level . |
| 11 | ‘ Ginger ’ Neil was not impressed with what he saw , and described 261 as ‘ the most motley crowd of goons you ever saw in your life — ferry pilots who had been formed into a squadron . ’ |
| 12 | Wednesday afternoon games had been absorbed into a five-day teaching week , with School matches , music , and other activities ( including detention ) on Saturday morning . |
| 13 | However , they had been plunged into a welter of activity in which they tried to respond to urgent and practical matters placed before them and it is , therefore , not surprising that a commonly held view was that ‘ the best form of training comes from getting on with the job ’ . |
| 14 | ( Whereas 62 per cent of council elementary schools had been reorganized into a junior/senior pattern , only 16 per cent of the voluntary provision had been so reshaped ) . |
| 15 | This process of role retreatism that follows from status denial has been described particularly graphically by Riseborough in his study of a group of middle-aged , male secondary modern teachers who had been reorganized into an academically dominated comprehensive . |
| 16 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 17 | Anne had told us it was in Cork Street , Roseau , and had been converted into a sleazy guest-house . |
| 18 | Normally the building was the repair shop and garage for thirty AMX-10 battle tanks , but for this evening it had been converted into a temporary church with the aid of some camouflage nets , 300 chairs and a platform where a nativity play would be staged , and from which the Priest would read out the lesson . |
| 19 | Mounce unlocked the flat which had been converted into a bar . |
| 20 | The inside of two large lorries had been converted into a special effects roadshow that allows visitors to get the sound , sight , taste , smell and feel of Guinness — and win prizes as they go . |
| 21 | The glass works had been converted into a pottery , just like some of the other south Yorkshire sites during the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 22 | Although it had been converted into an hotel , it had n't lost its atmosphere , was n't at all touristy . |
| 23 | Requisitioned three months earlier , the 16,000 ton rawalpindi had been converted into an armed merchant cruiser . |
| 24 | One cabin had been made into a pottery , others had council murals daubed over them . |
| 25 | The former kitchen had been made into a small dining room almost entirely filled with an early Victorian table and set of six chairs which were undeniably the real thing . |
| 26 | The USSR , however , mindful of the fact that Cuba had been made into a prominent campaign issue by both contenders for the US presidency , paid no heed to the wave of Cuban nationalisations of US property during August-October 1960 . |
| 27 | It appeared that the expedient solution proposed by the District in 1930 for the Bedfordshire scheme had led to a further concession in Cambridgeshire in 1932 and by 1937 had been developed into a strategy for the development of adult education in rural areas for which the Board ‘ … visualised the Rural Areas Scheme as an eight counties one ’ . |
| 28 | In Leicestershire , a six acre disused quarry had been developed into a large fish pond providing an attraction for anglers and the farmer with a lucrative alternate source of income . |
| 29 | By the time of Jesus this commandment had been developed into a list of 513 points of law with detailed conditions of each and every possible situation . |
| 30 | Katya had been moved into a small room near the kitchens , which she shared with Esmereldi , and she was told to cook for the soldiers . |