Example sentences of "were [verb] into [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the legislation of the nineteenth century tithes were commuted into tithe rentcharge , an annual sum varying with the price of corn . |
| 2 | In the agriculture industry attention centred , as in recent years , on environmental issues , particularly the removal of stockpiles of animal fertiliser from which nitrogen compounds were leaching into ground water and polluting the sea . |
| 3 | Jewels worn in remembrance of dear ones lost , or exchanged between lovers as tokens , were extremely popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , although the ubiquitous lockets containing tresses of hair were perhaps the least subtle of these keepsakes. fit a time when the language of such things was far better understood than it is today , hearts and flowers , birds and beasts and a multitude of other symbols were incorporated into jewellery design to signify romantic love , to represent those sentiments and virtues which were the major preoccupation of the day . |
| 4 | Reconditioned Royal Navy ships were turned into Confederate blockade runners by Clydeside arms dealers . |
| 5 | If all the matter in the universe were turned into monkey flesh , we still could n't get enough monkeys . |
| 6 | Ashrawi asserted , however , that if funds to be obtained by the Israeli government through US loan guarantees were channelled into settlement building , this would disqualify the US from its role as peace-broker . |
| 7 | For the benefit of the deaf members present the Dean 's and all subsequent speeches were interpreted into sign language . |
| 8 | Then they were turning into Mahogany Drive and something lurched inside him , as if it was love he was meeting , not death . |
| 9 | Nine thousand signatures — all against fox hunting on council owned land — were handed into Shire hall by members of the league against cruel sports . |
| 10 | Police were called into leisure giant Brent Walker last year when directors alleged that £12.5m ‘ went missing ’ from the group . |
| 11 | Lowestoft CAB cooperated with the libraries in Bungay and Leiston where two rooms in each library were converted into community information points with noticeboards and leaflet racks . |
| 12 | Cells were scraped into extraction buffer , incubated for 1h at 4°C with gentle vortexing every 10 min , and then centrifuged at 18,000 g for 20min . |
| 13 | During the refurbishment programme the ledgers dating back to 1717 were taken into Archive Department 's collection where they will be looked after professionally , and many objets d'art were temporarily removed from the building for safe-keeping and restoration . |
| 14 | All local funds , which had been cut as a result of the introduction of NEP , were poured into famine relief . |
| 15 | However , almost 94 per cent were initiated into heroin use between 1979 and 1984 , that is , during the current ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 16 | All the snowball interviewees were initiated into heroin use during the current outbreak , with 71 per cent first using heroin from 1982 onwards . |
| 17 | Thus , it is not surprising that , even though the snowball group were older than their known counterparts when they began using drugs for recreational purposes ( a modal age of 16 against 15 ) , they were initiated into heroin use at an earlier age ( a modal age of 16 against 17 ) . |
| 18 | This was probably due to the restricted street availability of opioids such as Diconal after 1982 , the very period during which the majority of the younger interviewees were initiated into heroin use . |