Example sentences of "have [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since leaving Glasgow School of Art , where his contemporaries were Ken Curry , Steven Camberwell and , Steven Conroy , his work has developed into rough-hewn and expressive impasto , all long noses and pained profiles . |
| 2 | It was abandoned when the new church was built in 1909 and in less than severity years has fallen into complete ruin — a good indication of how severe the Dales weather can be and how quickly buildings succumb to its assault . |
| 3 | Add to that the fact that the Paris-based company that supplied the cargo has vanished into thin air , and it starts to look very suspicious . ’ |
| 4 | The old spelling is to continue to be ‘ tolerated ’ until the new version has come into general use . |
| 5 | Planning a complete package of care This rather ugly term ‘ package of care ’ has come into general welfare use to describe what is often a complex solution to a client 's need for services . |
| 6 | ‘ Mental handicap ’ is the term that has come into general usage to describe a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind . |
| 7 | The word ‘ carer ’ has come into common usage in the past ten years or so , but it has been used imprecisely . |
| 8 | Have to has to come into common use before it gets into the dictionary . |
| 9 | Having taken office in May 1979 , the Conservative government made an early decision to amend the long-standing arrangements for meeting the increasing costs of public sector higher education by limiting the size of the ‘ pool ’ for the financial year of 1980–1 , and an Education Bill was placed before Parliament giving the Secretary of State for Education the necessary power to predetermine the size of , or in the phrase that has crept into common usage , to ‘ cap ’ the pool . |
| 10 | Skinner auction house , the fifth largest in American , has moved into new and larger premises in Boston . |
| 11 | Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | The search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp has moved into top gear and could be complete by the end of next month , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 13 | That steep yield curve has turned into political temptation . |
| 14 | Taylor has turned into public enemy number one . |
| 15 | Has opened into lime-and-lemon leaves |
| 16 | In the current year , the focus of major development activity has shifted into other areas with , for example , the development of SVQs and general SVQs , and the Quality Development Programme . |
| 17 | The inquiry that my right hon. and learned Friend has commissioned into primary education will , of course , encompass the needs of children with special educational needs . |
| 18 | So the world is one nation which has branched into lesser nations . |
| 19 | Annie has suffered the indignity of being dumped by her husband , Aaron , for her sex-therapist ; Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy , unscrupulous Morty , a discount electronics magnate ; Elise has quietly suffered for years at the hands of an adulterous ne'er-do-well and has retreated into alcoholic stupefaction . |
| 20 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 21 | The Press has introduced into common speech such expressions as ‘ pulling the plug ’ or ‘ switching off the machine ’ . |
| 22 | It has entered into long-term bilateral grain agreements ( LBGAs ) with only two countries , the Soviet Union ( three times ) and China ( once ) . |
| 23 | Another case where a covenant of indemnity by a third or subsequent buyer is appropriate , arises when the first buyer ( A ) has entered into positive covenants , and as the original covenantor will continue liable after selling ; A therefore takes a covenant of indemnity from A 's buyer ( B ) , not limited to A 's period of ownership ; B therefore takes from B 's buyer ( C ) a covenant against liability under B's covenant with A. Very complicated , but logical . |
| 24 | But Byrd 's fate , a year after Detroit Lions lineman Mike Utley was paralysed by a neck injury , has brought into sharp focus the perilous nature of a sport based upon fierce physical contact between men — many of them giants — whose bodies were never intended to absorb and administer such punishment . |
| 25 | Worries centre on what appears to be an acceptance by IBM that its mainframe business has slipped into irretrievable decline , and as that perception becomes widespread among users the decline can only accelerate as those that had planned to grow their mainframe installations pause and reconsider the options . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union has disintegrated into separate states , and the so-called Commonwealth of Independent States exists largely on paper as a desperate attempt to maintain some kind of economic and political cooperation . |
| 27 | ‘ I fear that the investigation has descended into total chaos , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Loans to small farmers have been increased 25 times over ; research and investment has gone into new seeds and fertilizers specially designed for the needs ( and the purses ) of the small farmer ; and maize prices have gone up by 129 per cent so as to provide an incentive . |
| 29 | These improvements follow the £75 million investment in the Chiltern line , which has gone into new trains , new stations , new facilities , all of which has meant a great improvement for all the commuters on that line ; those on the Thames line will benefit similarly . |
| 30 | Crusaders fifth Dubliner John Cleary has gone into junior management down south . |