Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 2 | She said the oil had been broken down into small particles and was being absorbed by organisms at the bottom of the food chain . |
| 3 | The six themes are at unequal stages of development in that some have already been broken down into specific research projects whereas others are at a more exploratory stage . |
| 4 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |
| 5 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 6 | Special investigations have also been carried out into British aid for India and the payment of pensions in Gibraltar . |
| 7 | Selected titles in Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy Reader Packs , each containing a Reader , a Cassette , and Notes for the Parent/Teacher in English , Italian , Spanish , Arabic , Greek , Japanese , and Portuguese . |
| 8 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 9 | Of the dozens of ailing firms that the Socialists took under their wing in the 1980s , rather than let them die , almost all have been sold back into private hands or wound up . |
| 10 | Help from industry has provided a welcome boost to the restoration of R-Robert , with the bomb beam assembly restored by Dan-Air Services at Lasham , the outer wings were rebuilt by Monarch Aircraft Engineering at Luton , the port engine has been put back into original condition by British Airways Engineering at Heathrow and the cockpit canopy frame donated by the RAF Museum and reglazed by British Airways . |
| 11 | In the example given , the production function has been divided up into four sub-units or departments . |