Example sentences of "were [verb] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were remanded into local authority care until 3 March , when they are to appear again . |
| 2 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 3 | The pinstripe trousers were tucked into green shooting boots with buckles at the sides , giving him a competent air . |
| 4 | The trousers were tucked into high boots , and Rostov saw that his son 's eyelids had been stained a shade of silver-blue . |
| 5 | In February 1918 they , with the Berks Yeomanry , were formed into one Machine Gun Battalion . |
| 6 | On completion , the sets were formed into three trains and put on display , on the goods yard sidings . |
| 7 | It was difficult to refuse and thereby block their chances , but helping one student set a precedent ; any foreigners were plunged into moral dilemmas by their students who wanted help to go abroad . |
| 8 | They had taken an early lead with four points from Damien Short but when Oliver Lennon was sent off for a high challenge they were plunged into temporary disarray . |
| 9 | Traders were plunged into another whirl of selling , taking the lira back down to five-month lows of around 964 to the German mark . |
| 10 | In order to have something to play on it , the company made half-a-dozen special recordings which were pressed into tiny records an inch and five-sixteenths in diameter . |
| 11 | There is no evidence that any miners were pressed into military service . |
| 12 | Headquarters personnel were pressed into this defence , in Peter Young 's words , ‘ to give it a bit of depth ’ . |
| 13 | They were filled into two ounce , four ounce or , you know , depending on the size you you stocked and sold . |
| 14 | Their constituent districts were rearranged into 192 district health authorities , and the 14 regional health authorities retained as a strategic planning tier ( see Figure 1.3 ) . |
| 15 | The areas of the five Saxon burhs were reorganised into Norman landships , the rapes , and given to the more powerful and trusty lay barons . |
| 16 | Rural postcode sectors , ranked by proportion of oil workers , were grouped into three categories with similar numbers of children but contrasting densities of oil workers . |
| 17 | Analysis indicated that when the children were grouped into six-month age bands , the difference between the scores from each age band was significant ( p > 0.05 ) . |
| 18 | They were laughing into each other 's faces at some private joke ; they had n't seen me . |
| 19 | Jobs were amalgamated into three operator and two craft-maintenance categories ( Income Data Services , 1984 : 26 ) . |
| 20 | Equal amounts of plasmid DNA ( 15μg per 10-cm dish ) were transfected into COS-1 cells by lipofection using transfectam ( Promega ) as recommended by the manufacturer . |
| 21 | The limbs were modified into efficient paddles , perfectly adapted for sculling through the water . |
| 22 | If these matters were to pass into European competence in the way that the Liberal Democrats want , there would be an inevitable weakening of our controls and our frontier controls , which I am not prepared to accept . |
| 23 | His emotions were slotted into different compartments , and he locked up those that might get in the way of a safe drive back to the cottage . |
| 24 | But as the Tiananmen movement grew and grew , more and more Hong Kong people were stirred into sympathetic action . |
| 25 | Ranulf studied the painting curiously and felt a shiver of apprehension as he saw how the sinners were thrust into hot ovens , cauldrons of boiling oil , or broken on huge revolving cartwheels . |
| 26 | The first two UDCs were thrust into these circumstances in 1981 . |
| 27 | Her sizeable bottom and not-too-marvellous legs were thinly coated with bright yellow silk jeans ending just below the knee ; her bare feet were thrust into pink mules with diamond spike-heels . |
| 28 | Her huge breasts , so much at odds with the thin face and the bony arms , were pushed into great half moons by the table edge . |
| 29 | This was reflected in a polarised and divided political system , in which it was almost impossible to build a common democratic consensus especially as many of the moderate middle classes were pushed into right wing opposition of the republic by the initial government 's anticlericalism . |
| 30 | Travis 's commanding tone drew her attention as two aspirins were pushed into one hand and a mug of coffee in the other . |