Example sentences of "were [vb pp] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many otters died after toxic chemicals were spilled into the river but its hoped the new otter homes will encourage hundreds to return . |
| 2 | There was a significant negative correlation between breath hydrogen excretion and mouth to caecum transit time suggesting that with shorter transit times significantly more carbohydrates were spilled into the colon . |
| 3 | No frogs developed if nuclei from adult frogs were placed into the egg . |
| 4 | A recent case on settlorship is Butler v Wilden 61 TC 666 where shares in effectively a shell company were placed into the names of two children who paid the appropriate price for the same but with the company being built up by two brothers Graham and Gary . |
| 5 | The investments were extremely profitable , however , and the companies were among the most successful in the country when they were nationalized into the NCB in 1947 . |
| 6 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 7 | On the surrender of the abbey to the king 's commissioners in December 1539 , the buildings assigned ‘ to remain undefaced ’ were given into the custody of its former steward , Sir Edward Baynton , but all those ‘ deemed to be superfluous ’ were committed to Stumpe as Baynton 's deputy : they included the church , cloister , chapter house , dormitory , frater , and infirmary . |
| 8 | You were given into the care of people who reared you well . ’ |
| 9 | A number of investigations were undertaken into the scale and direction of Partnership funding during the late 1970s ( Hall , 1978 ; Nabarro , 1980 ; Lawless , 1981a ) . |
| 10 | Bukharin was making clear the distinction between the period when means of production were gathered into the hands of certain groups , who then used them as capital and thereby began the process of the accumulation of capital , and reproduction o f capitalist relations of production . |
| 11 | Brown paint-streaked trouserlegs were tucked into the boots , and at the top the trousers ended in a scallop-shape where a hairy belly hung over in a loop , belly-button gaping . |
| 12 | Zahedis chateau Lafite and other vintage were pouted into the embassy fountain , and he was publicly denounced as having bribed congressmen and journalists with drugs and call girls . |
| 13 | Last year in Seoul diocese alone , more than one hundred thousand converts were received into the Church . |
| 14 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 15 | The Romanov family were marched into the basement of a house then turned to face a dozen executioners jostling in the doorway for room to shoot . |
| 16 | 42 consecutive patients referred to the regional renal unit for management of acute renal failure ( serum creatinine >500 mol/L ) were enrolled into the study , which had been approved by the local medical ethics committee . |
| 17 | Metropolitan and other English detectives were seconded to Northern Ireland and a number of English recruits were enrolled into the RUC . |
| 18 | Her feet were plunged into the water . |
| 19 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
| 20 | Instead of being directly involved , radical supporters were diverted into the groups where their thoughts could be sifted and selected at will . |
| 21 | Protective monocles were squeezed into the orbits of the combatants ' eyes . |
| 22 | How many hundreds or thousands of those gallons were tipped into the saucepans the report does not reveal , but certain it is that in these days it is not at all uncommon to find dishes of chicken , langouste or lobster flambé au whisky on the menus of French provincial and Parisian restaurants . |
| 23 | The changes were carried into the Companies Act 1989 and are now known as the ‘ New Settlement ’ . |
| 24 | The ground was split and vast chunks of rock were carried into the sky by the rising tide of magic . |
| 25 | It was certainly done most effectively for one culture some years ago when Romeo and Juliet were transposed into the idiom of youth group clash in modern New York in West Side Story ( p. 95 ) . |
| 26 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |
| 27 | At one stage two large windows were let into the wall each side of the rose window to give more light , but these were removed when the cathedral was restored in the early part of this century as they were not in keeping with the original design . |
| 28 | Inkwells were let into the top of the desks and each Friday afternoon the ink monitors from Standard Seven would arrive with trays , collect these inkwells , take them into the lobby and refill them with very watery ink from a small water can . |
| 29 | Police were let into the flat by 35-year-old Stephen Knox , who said : ‘ Simon has done funeral work for our company . |
| 30 | We needed young men who were dragooned into the services in the fourteen/eighteen war and erm who never came back , and we needed a lot of them . |