Example sentences of "be [verb] into [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart is hammering , my hands are balled into fists . |
| 2 | And when eventually the colobus had been ripped into pieces , and the forest went quiet , he pointed out the way the chimps shared their spoils with their nearest relatives . |
| 3 | From everything being simple and light-hearted , she had been plunged into shoals of deception , way out of her depth . |
| 4 | Earnings are broken into bands called earnings brackets . |
| 5 | On a molecular level , photosynthesis begins when light quanta excite banks of chlorophyll molecules that are arranged into networks of microscopic antennae protruding from the photosynthetic membranes . |
| 6 | Thus all attainments for which the government believes it important enough to legislate are arranged into hierarchies of knowledge , understanding and skill through which all children will progress . |
| 7 | But the guerrilla bands have been broken into fragments by the fighting . |
| 8 | Some would have been formed into bomb-ketches and armed with mortars and howitzers . |
| 9 | Open Access , previously a massive single integrated package has recently been stripped into modules along the same lines . |
| 10 | Some of the norms are societal , that is , they arise from the culture of our society and are carried into organizations . |
| 11 | Once foci have been grouped into facets , they must be ordered . |
| 12 | The beetles burrow under the dead animals , removing the earth from below so that the animals sink down into the soil , where they are rolled into balls for the reception of the beetles ' eggs and developing larvae . |
| 13 | Administratively , the Auvergne constitutes one of France 's 22 planning Regions ; it is divided into 4 Departments ( Allier , Cantal , Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dome ) which are organised into Cantons and ultimately consist of a total of 1,308 Communes . |
| 14 | They recognise that not all interests in society are organised into groups and in order to explain this state of affairs they see it as important to consider two phenomena that tend to be ignored by pluralists . |
| 15 | Just as modern armies are organised into companies , battalions , regiments , brigades and divisions , so the Roman Army was organised into centuries , cohorts and legions . |
| 16 | The branches are organised into regions . |
| 17 | Models are organised into units which we call regiments . |
| 18 | Troops are organised into units which , in the case of Orcs and Goblins , are called Mobs . |
| 19 | Models are organised into units which we call regiments . |
| 20 | First of all they are sorted into groups of similar material : pottery , brooches , pieces of worked stone , and so on ; these may be sent at this stage to various specialists , who will study them and write a technical report . |
| 21 | The finds are laid out on work surfaces and are sorted into groups of similar material , either in a single stage if there are very few , or in batches . |
| 22 | The unwanted textiles are sorted into qualities , wool and man-made , then into colours . |
| 23 | Light filtered through dimly from various shafts and , here and there , bounced off big mirrors that had been mortared into angles of the passage . |
| 24 | All these meals are grouped into sections based on the fibre-rich food which forms the main ingredient of the meal . |
| 25 | These in their turn are grouped into assemblies that make up the total product/machine . |
| 26 | The words are grouped into sets , with ten words per set and twelve sets in all . |
| 27 | The volumes are grouped into sets , which can contain as many volumes as required ; each set stores data which is associated with one charge code and selected by a classification filter . |
| 28 | The shortest wavelengths are grouped into wavebands called gamma rays , X-rays and ultraviolet ( UV ) radiation . |
| 29 | Modules are grouped into packages by links which vary according to the particular requirements of the project . |
| 30 | These expansions are compressed into booms , followed by slumps , over the fifty-year cycles because innovations are bunched into compressed periods . |