Example sentences of "be [verb] into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mercedes SL can be provoked into oversteer if you cut the power in a bend ( above — but , with ASR traction control as fitted to test car , all that 's really on offer is artificially strong understeer ( right ) .
2 Even if you are coping well enough overall , you may sometimes be provoked into anger against the patient , either because of his behaviour , or because of your mutual frustration at the situation his illness has created .
3 Finally , the front legs can be eased into position , the seat and rails and the whole lot driven home .
4 It is a sector where the multinationals dominated , but had to be coerced into action that produced export gains but at the price of deepening the dependence not just in the main products , but also in key component suppliers .
5 Moreover it is hoped to examine the process by which these preferences will be formulated into policy at the different levels of institutional and State organisations under study .
6 A separate product , LIFESPAN-ABLE , is available to allow large quantities of software to be enrolled into LIFESPAN with minimal effort .
7 The terms under which children could be received into care were considerably widened , the methods of care were made more sensitive to the needs of children and the unified administrative structure ensured more uniform standards of care over the country .
8 It was bought by the first buyers for the purpose of reselling in smaller quantities to be compounded into food for cattle and poultry and was resold by them for compounding into pig and poultry food .
9 ‘ If we knew where one of these things was going to be flown into space , ’ he said , speaking quickly before the words had time to escape , ‘ and we could sort of hang on to the sides or whatever , or maybe drive it like the Truck , and we took you with us , then we could jump off when we got up there and go and find this ship of ours , could n't we ? ’
10 The Jordanian Central Bank governor , Mohammad Said Nabulsi , announced on June 13 , 1989 , that they would be placed into liquidation in an attempt to cut heavy currency speculation .
11 Several airframes had to be placed into store to allow for a less cramped-looked and these left via the small side door through which the new exhibits arrived — witness the tight fit of the HS.125 that was squeezed in on June 28 .
12 Because of your sickness , an innocent woman is going to die , and your fair Elizabeth is going to be plunged into misery . ’
13 Styles , patterns , colours , decoration , these were perpetual , scarcely changing decade upon decade , until the intervention of the trendsetter , that is ; one snap of whose fingers — those sensitive tips continually monitoring the pulse of What 's Next — and a community half the world away would be plunged into chaos , ruin , and confusion with bales and bales of unsaleable indigo , mirrored , bell-sleeved embroidered-yoke blouses to show for their efforts .
14 He suggested that should these signings go through , the club would be plunged into bankruptcy .
15 Our society would be plunged into darkness .
16 Britain 's agriculture industry could be plunged into crisis early next century as fewer young people enter farming , says a survey for the Castrol company .
17 When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ?
18 Even a dustbin on a gas ring or glass fibre bottle skips , unheated , may be employed and it is not unknown for an old enamel bathtub to be pressed into service .
19 Swallowing his pride , Lexandro inveigled , connived , and bribed his way as a junior shrimp into the very Ducas clan gang which his father had heard would soon be pressed into service — an action that grieved his parents .
20 These and other plastic jars can be pressed into service as back-up filters .
21 Sometimes the most interesting or unusual fact in the story can be pressed into service in the headline .
22 Every bit of board and rusty sheet of metal had to be pressed into service .
23 There 's little doubt the Commonwealth sees France as the main target of the mission , but as a mainly English speaking organization , its influence on President Mitterand may be limited so the French speakers among them will be pressed into service .
24 Virtually anything that is flat and ridged can be pressed into use in an emergency .
25 That day Antrim were forced to play without the injured Terence McNaughton , and he 's again a reluctant spectator today , though he could be pressed into action at some stage .
26 But neither labelling patterns of resistance as unreasonable nor believing that managers can be manipulated into acceptance if it is against their interest , are adequate solutions .
27 A lengthy description of how one game can be developed into drama follows together with a couple of brief indications .
28 Ideas which can be developed into research projects can come to people at all times of the day or night and under all sorts of circumstances .
29 For very young children our Multivitamin Liquid can be mixed into milk or diluted fruit juice , or simply given on a spoon .
30 When had he ever had to be pricked into action before ?
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