Example sentences of "be [vb pp] into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on Feb. 2 Babic again rejected the peace plan , stating the following day that the participants at the meetings had been subjected to heavy pressure and physical assault from Serbian leaders and that Paspalj had been coerced into signing . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the Germans and others who in Freud 's time were antisemitic , but who had not yet , as far as it was known , introduced the Final Solution , had been coerced into Christianity quite recently in their history . |
| 3 | Some 10,000 troops had been flown into Caracas in response to the unrest , and official casualty figures put the number of people killed at 256 , including two soldiers and a police officer , and the number injured at 1,831 , with deaths and injuries mostly caused by gunfire . |
| 4 | My heart is hammering , my hands are balled into fists . |
| 5 | which has been tricked into sleep |
| 6 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |
| 7 | Small numbers of French had been parachuted into Indochina under SEAC auspices before the Japanese coup but a much larger and perhaps more effective intervention by the French Corps Léger d'Intervention , a specialist unit of some five hundred men recruited and waiting in Algeria , was frustrated for various nominal reasons ; the effective one being that the US , until the very last moment , was unalterably opposed to French units participating in the war against Japan , and especially , if this involved Vietnam . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Unless we attend to the words which have been placed into working memory , they will not be retained . |
| 10 | Over dinner he gave an enthralling account of the entire mission , their excitement at penetrating the Flow undetected , matched only by their relief at finding the way out , and of how on reaching home waters they had been cheered into Wilhelmshaven by the rest of the German fleet and flown to Berlin for a celebratory banquet with Hitler . |
| 11 | Tourists are plunged into Test turmoil |
| 12 | Yeah , but your saying been in , erm they may have happened to you , I 've been bashed into time and time again |
| 13 | The best are those where the head is made from a single piece of metal rather than where individual teeth are riveted into place . |
| 14 | Apparently Merton College had refused to take northern students and Oxford had been plunged into chaos and riot . |
| 15 | Dominated by an economy based on cereal crops , the region had been plunged into recession by a series of poor harvests in the 1830 s . |
| 16 | From everything being simple and light-hearted , she had been plunged into shoals of deception , way out of her depth . |
| 17 | Since then the country has been plunged into uncertainty as Compaor struggles to consolidate his power and turn back the clock . |
| 18 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 19 | Most have long disappeared ; many of those left have been pressed into service as gateposts on farms , or blacken slowly as lintels over fireplaces . |
| 20 | A very interesting sub-set in this category is that in which the Christian or baptismal name is followed immediately by one of like kind , as in the case of Johannes Geoffrey , where it appears that a personal name has been pressed into service as a byname . |
| 21 | Beside the door of each room a supply of ready-loaded firearms had been laid ; every available weapon , from the Enfield rifles of those killed earlier in the siege to native flintlocks and the countless sporting guns which had been such a feature of " the possessions " , had been pressed into service . |
| 22 | The troopers of the Kha-Khan 's guard who were detailed to line the processional route had been pressed into service to clear away the debris , and their facial expressions reflected their feelings as the dye from the cloth stained their hands and surcoats . |
| 23 | And , faith , since we married I 've been pressed into service as one more brother to him , a father , too , since his own father died when the boy was barely thirteen . |
| 24 | All are pressed into service to create gorgeous glam-tastic tunes brimming full of charm , wit and unexpected bits where Crispin Hunt 's voice seems inebriated on premium-strength helium . |
| 25 | There are plenty of references to various studies which are pressed into support of this theory , giving it the appearance of authority . |
| 26 | Few homes have nearly enough socket outlets to cope with all the electrical appliances the average household now owns , and at Christmas the demand rises to a peak as seldom-used appliances are pressed into duty , and every item of home entertainment equipment seems to be on at once . |
| 27 | It is logical then to proceed with Jean Packman 's research into the way decisions are made when children and young people , home life being temporarily or long term unable or unsuitable to sustain them , for whatever reason , are received into care — or , in spite of referrals and requests , not received . |
| 28 | Furthermore , unless the exclusive control for the welfare of the children and young people is transferred to the residential sector once they are received into care , then some division of labour is inevitable and necessitates decisions about when fieldwork ends and residential work begins . |
| 29 | A very wide variety of cases are received into care under this section . |
| 30 | Earnings are broken into bands called earnings brackets . |