Example sentences of "were [verb] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly 300 litres of diesel oil were spilled into a tributary of the River Tamar in Plymouth yesterday after vandals released the fuel from a tank in a timber yard . |
| 2 | There was a significant negative correlation between breath hydrogen excretion and mouth to caecum transit time suggesting that with shorter transit times significantly more carbohydrates were spilled into the colon . |
| 3 | Many otters died after toxic chemicals were spilled into the river but its hoped the new otter homes will encourage hundreds to return . |
| 4 | Even if no more water were to flow into the aquifer , water would flow out , like the air from the tyre , until the pressure was no longer enough to lift the water above ground level . |
| 5 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 6 | Willie sat on a chair as his feet were placed into a measuring gauge . |
| 7 | These were placed into a microfuge tube with 50 µl of water and boiled for 5 minutes . |
| 8 | Aliquots of egg lecithin were placed into a glass test tube and flushed to dryness under a stream of nitrogen at 37°C , and subsequently lyophylised for 18 hours ( biles 3–7 ) . |
| 9 | After screening more than 360000 men , the 12 000 who were eligible were placed into an experimental or control group . |
| 10 | No frogs developed if nuclei from adult frogs were placed into the egg . |
| 11 | A recent case on settlorship is Butler v Wilden 61 TC 666 where shares in effectively a shell company were placed into the names of two children who paid the appropriate price for the same but with the company being built up by two brothers Graham and Gary . |
| 12 | The investments were extremely profitable , however , and the companies were among the most successful in the country when they were nationalized into the NCB in 1947 . |
| 13 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 14 | You were given into the care of people who reared you well . ’ |
| 15 | On the surrender of the abbey to the king 's commissioners in December 1539 , the buildings assigned ‘ to remain undefaced ’ were given into the custody of its former steward , Sir Edward Baynton , but all those ‘ deemed to be superfluous ’ were committed to Stumpe as Baynton 's deputy : they included the church , cloister , chapter house , dormitory , frater , and infirmary . |
| 16 | A number of investigations were undertaken into the scale and direction of Partnership funding during the late 1970s ( Hall , 1978 ; Nabarro , 1980 ; Lawless , 1981a ) . |
| 17 | Bukharin was making clear the distinction between the period when means of production were gathered into the hands of certain groups , who then used them as capital and thereby began the process of the accumulation of capital , and reproduction o f capitalist relations of production . |
| 18 | Police vehicles were tucked into every available space in the crooked , meandering alley and police personnel , uniformed and CID , were continually clattering up and down the stairs which led to the room above the printer 's . |
| 19 | Brown paint-streaked trouserlegs were tucked into the boots , and at the top the trousers ended in a scallop-shape where a hairy belly hung over in a loop , belly-button gaping . |
| 20 | Zahedis chateau Lafite and other vintage were pouted into the embassy fountain , and he was publicly denounced as having bribed congressmen and journalists with drugs and call girls . |
| 21 | Last year in Seoul diocese alone , more than one hundred thousand converts were received into the Church . |
| 22 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 23 | The cDNAs encoding bovine PLC- β1 ( ref. 22 ) and human PLC- β2 ( ref. 9 ) were ligated into the mammalian expression vector pMT2 ( ref. 23 ) . |
| 24 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | We were to go into the mountains and spend one night in tents before making our rendezvous the next day . |
| 26 | And how many officers were to go into the flat ? |
| 27 | Peasants and miners were formed into a militia and given several days training , then stationed behind earthworks hurriedly thrown up on beaches , such as at Seaton , which became ‘ a handsome fence forbidding any foe 's invasion ’ , or in the iron age forts . |
| 28 | And at one point , showing how the books were formed into the New Testament by the early Church , the report expressed the belief that God gave the early Church its three gifts of ordering of the New Testament , creeds like the apostles ' creed , and the ministry of bishops in their succession from the apostles . |
| 29 | When I woke in the morning , we were drawing into the bank . |
| 30 | Lighter spirits such as vodka and white rum had become more popular , the report said , along with a growing array of speciality spirits and spirit-based drinks , all of which were eating into the whisky market . |