Example sentences of "been [vb pp] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He further found that she had been lulled into a sense of false security by the hospital staff and been misinformed as to the availability and effect of alternative procedures . |
| 5 | Evidence from satellite photos , refugees and dissident groups reveals that almost the entire flow of the Euphrates has been diverted into a 560-kilometre drainage canal , known as the Third River , recently connected to the sea . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | She swung to face him angrily , her pale cheeks now flushed to wild apricot , her breasts rising and falling with bottled-in emotion , annoyance , embarrassment and a feeling of having been manipulated into a situation where she had behaved like an ill-bred lunatic . |
| 8 | ITN had said that in the 12 months before the ban was imposed , 0.01 per cent of air time would have been affected and these items could have been recast into a form which complied with the directives . |
| 9 | All the contents of my locker had been tipped into a blanket . |
| 10 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 11 | The next moment she jumped up , almost angrily , as though she had been trapped into a softness that she did not mean . |
| 12 | Because they 've been pressured into an opinion on one particular aspect of their letter . |
| 13 | This is an old place , indeed a Roman place , as is known from an inscription which has been built into a chapel on top of the highest of the surrounding hills , and which is dedicated to a local Romano-Iberic divinity of the name of Herauscorritsehe , which can not have tripped too easily from the pious tongue . |
| 14 | For the first time , a mentally handicapped child has been built into a programme about normal people living in normal lives , rather than made the subject of a sensational film or documentary . |
| 15 | Policing issues are never long out of the headlines ( Chibnall 1977 ) , and this media obsession has been transmitted into a wealth of analyses of policing — which have mostly been carried out by outside observers . |
| 16 | Virgin , he claimed had been precipitated into a compromise with Sting largely because their key witness was unreliable . |
| 17 | Suddenly she sat upright in bed as though pulled by strings , her brain clearing as if her head had been pushed into a bucket of water . |
| 18 | ‘ We are now downright scared because we have been pushed into a confrontation not only with the police but also with the military , ’ Harris says . |
| 19 | We have been pushed into a confrontation with the military |
| 20 | It is of course a sacred archival principle not to interfere with the original material once it has been incorporated into a collection . |
| 21 | A large amount of the surrounding land has recently been made into a golf course . |
| 22 | Beatrix Potter 's classic children 's story ’ The Tailor of Gloucester ’ has been made into a video . |
| 23 | One cabin had been made into a pottery , others had council murals daubed over them . |
| 24 | The story of the two poets , dramatic in itself , has been made into a play by Robert Southam . |
| 25 | Now it has been made into a film by British scriptwriter Harold Pinter and German director Volker Schlondorff . |
| 26 | The closing of the railway line was regretted but the station has been made into a club and the old engine shed into a sports hall . |
| 27 | At Machrie , Kilchoman , the mill has been made into a house and there was a millstone there which was only about two inches thick ; another thin stone was on the south bank of the Saligo river at NR208639 , which is not far away . |
| 28 | On Golden Pond has been made into an Oscar winning film , starring Katherine Hepburn , Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda . |
| 29 | Here were a large dilapidated manor house and a church next door which had been turned into a barn . |
| 30 | They also inevitably include such universally popular compositions as Dowland 's ‘ Lachrimae Pavin' which seems to have originated as a lute solo , been turned into a song ( ‘ FIow , my tears ’ ) , arranged for viol consort with six sequels in the 1605 book , and arranged for virginals by Byrd , Morley , and Farnaby . |