Example sentences of "into action [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A huge operation swung into action after a fire at a Cheshire chemical factory sent a cloud of gases drifting over the area . |
| 2 | Skin-divers were close at hand , ready to go into action if the stunt went disastrously wrong . |
| 3 | The method of compartmentation would not , of course , be brought into action until a delay period had elapsed to permit the escape of personnel , and the timing of the foam application would need to be carefully controlled in order to leave sufficient time to permit the foam to fill the volume before the fire took substantial hold . |
| 4 | ONE of Cleveland 's new all-weather fire and rescue vehicles swung into action when a man broke his leg on the Eston Hills . |
| 5 | Stirred into action when a Member of parliament , Mr Pilkington , was the victim of a garotting attack in Pall Mall while on his way to the Reform Club , a Security from Violence Bill was brought before the House of Commons to reinstate the penalty of flogging for robbery offences . |
| 6 | SUPERMAN Derek Kaye leapt into action when a trailer loaded with a car ran over his godson — and lifted it clear with ONE hand . |
| 7 | Even the water taps have been replaced by electromagnetic sensors which spring into action when a hand is waved within 100 mm of the sensor . |
| 8 | It was eventually spurred into action when the majority of the member states began to take unilateral action to control imports of coal into their own territories , so obviating the whole object of the common market since the new controls also applied to imports from other ECSC states . |
| 9 | But the memory of Bregawn should not be of a recalcitrant mule goaded into action as the rest of the field leaves him way behind , but of a good Cheltenham Gold Cup winner storming up the hill to head the procession of Dickinson horses which was the most remarkable training feat of modern times . |