Example sentences of "were [verb] into [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years a register of marriages and baptisms was regularly kept ; but since the Parliamentry Churches , with the districts annexed , were erected into parishes quoad sacra , the minister at Portnahaven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register . " |
| 2 | For several years a register of marriages and baptisms was regularly kept ; but since the Parliamentry Churches , with the districts annexed , were erected into parishes quoad sacra , the minister at Portnahaven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register . " |
| 3 | Quickly the rows were gathered into sheaves and tied . |
| 4 | On the eleventh day they gathered up their belongings , packed up their tents and were formed into companies so they could be addressed by the Commanding Officer of the Regiment . |
| 5 | Her fingers were fusing into claws . |
| 6 | Helicopters dropped experts onto unsuspecting villages in Nepal ; Tunisian women were coerced into buses to have loops inserted without explanation ; African women were given contraceptive injections against their or their husbands ' wills . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the larger birds of prey were tucking into things like mice , rats , chicks and rabbits . |
| 8 | The boreholes were drilled into windows of Mesozoic rock and provide evidence of the sub-Tertiary geology of the North Rockall Trough which is now being explored by a number of oil companies . |
| 9 | Equal numbers of TC-fresh LC and TC-cultured LC ( 5x10 4 per well ) were added into wells at the initiation of the binding assay . |
| 10 | He lifted his head , but still without looking at me ; his huge hands were clenched into fists . |
| 11 | Prions ‘ adapted ’ to either hamster or mouse were inoculated into hamsters , normal mice , or transgeneic mice carrying the hamster PrP transgene . |
| 12 | Long narrow destination boards with route numbers in small figures at the ends , were slotted into brackets just below the saloon windows , replacing those on the upper deck screens . |
| 13 | They formed , in theory , a private army of his own , for though Louis XIV paid them they were organised into regiments under Irish officers , but William preferred to have them confronting him openly on the far side of the Channel rather than lurking , disaffected , in his rear on the other side of the Irish Sea . |
| 14 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 15 | Positive cosmids were mapped into intervals by hybridization to other YACs and isolated ends of YAC clones from the contig , and to the GLA and DXS178 probes ( ref. 26 and I.V . |
| 16 | She watched with amazement as goats were pushed into guards ' vans ; she gazed with awe at the rough , dark faces that loomed in front of her out of the steam . |
| 17 | Peasant representatives were incorporated into committees established to organize food supplies and make preparations for land reform . |
| 18 | Because of the original engineers ' appreciation of its intrinsic brittleness , cast-iron members tend to be stressed to lower levels than steelwork and the way they were incorporated into buildings usually allows them to expand in a fire without generating increased stresses . |
| 19 | His hands were curved into claws . |
| 20 | Eggs surviving microinjection were transfered into oviducts of recipient pseudopregnant females ( 18 ) . |
| 21 | Directly he spoke , Gabriel made the sign of the cross , and all the doves were turned into cattle . |
| 22 | The legs also gave scope for embellishment ; they were turned into columns or bent into distinctive arch shapes with ball feet . |
| 23 | As punishment they were turned into leaves and blown hither and thither — some down chimneys , some into stables , others into newly turned earth . |
| 24 | Instead of being demolished , they were turned into goods stations . |
| 25 | The natural fears displayed by many children were turned into signs of abuse — such as fear of going to jail , fear of ghosts and monsters , fear of ‘ bad people ’ taking the child away , fear of being left with a babysitter . |
| 26 | Toward the end of the sixteenth century , dating from late in the reign of Suleyman , a number of ostensibly less important kadiliks such as Izmir ( 976/1569 ) , Konya ( 977/1569 and again in 989/1581 ) , Jerusalem ( 983/1575 ) , Selanik ( 983/1575 ) , and Bosnasarayi ( Sarajevo ) ( 986/1579 ) were turned into mevleviyets . |
| 27 | Some of Middleton 's slag had been used to build Darlington 's roads the famous blue scorriae bricks that line the town centre yards and back alleys are made from slag and when the RAF set up at Goosepool , the rest of the heaps were turned into runways . |
| 28 | To elucidate the characteristics of effector cells , PBMCs were separated into monocytes and lymphocytes by adherence onto Petri dishes . |
| 29 | Anonymity was guaranteed by investigators from Social and Community Planning Research who were looking into reasons why landlords refuse to let empty property . |
| 30 | As he noted at the time , new houses intended for single families were subdivided into tenements on their first letting , for the very poor simply could not afford to pay their landlords a realistic return on their investment . |