Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [adv] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle . |
| 2 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 3 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 4 | The restaurant has been turned back into a house — little expense spared and the quality of work by the local joiner is superb , no other word for it . |
| 5 | In fishing this literally means that the catching sector has been forced back into a more primitive , earlier phase . |
| 6 | After such endorsements from a man who , despite being a migrant from the Mid-West has been transformed instinctively into a prime example of Homo Pacificus , it would have been a foolish and almost unpatriotic American who professed otherwise . |
| 7 | This was something that Picasso had also conveyed in the necks of the Horta figures , where the area between the projecting tendons appears to have been cut back into a deep recess . |
| 8 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 9 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 10 | The grass in the middle had been ploughed up into a dustbowl , and here and there pools of dark blood showed where bodies thrown out had lain before being taken away to hospital . |
| 11 | Although by 1086 the Barton estate had been split up into a number of manors , of which only one was still in the hands of the king himself , there can be little doubt that before the Conquest the Anglo-Saxon kings had had here an estate of some seven thousand acres which they kept in hand for their own supplies . |
| 12 | The interior of the farmhouse had been opened out into a reception office , though it still had the original stone floor and a pretty impressive fireplace in the middle of one wall . |
| 13 | Rostov saw that his hair had been drawn back into a neat queue which had been tied with ribbon then folded decoratively forward across the top of his head . |
| 14 | ‘ There were coal-effect gas fires in the living-rooms ; the bathroom was covered in cork tiles , floor to ceiling ; the kitchen had been knocked through into a disastrous tunnel lined with Melamine ; and the roof had been re-tiled in the most revolting red pantiles instead of black slates . |
| 15 | Huge waves have been swept back into a movie star style . |
| 16 | Epidermal cells have been thrown up into a small mound at the site of closure . |
| 17 | ‘ Sex is important to everybody but I think it 's been blown up into a thing that you must have and do . ’ |