Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is no more likely to be provoked into acts of violence , even though he is made the subject of abusive and insulting remarks and conduct , and it is suggested that in this respect the law remains precisely the same . |
| 2 | Mercedes SL can be provoked into oversteer if you cut the power in a bend ( above — but , with ASR traction control as fitted to test car , all that 's really on offer is artificially strong understeer ( right ) . |
| 3 | Even if you are coping well enough overall , you may sometimes be provoked into anger against the patient , either because of his behaviour , or because of your mutual frustration at the situation his illness has created . |
| 4 | Finally , the front legs can be eased into position , the seat and rails and the whole lot driven home . |
| 5 | It is a sector where the multinationals dominated , but had to be coerced into action that produced export gains but at the price of deepening the dependence not just in the main products , but also in key component suppliers . |
| 6 | Moreover it is hoped to examine the process by which these preferences will be formulated into policy at the different levels of institutional and State organisations under study . |
| 7 | The discussion of the methods by which company law has sought to legitimate the power conferred upon corporate managers and an assessment of their efficacy will be broken into parts to reflect these two strategies . |
| 8 | A separate product , LIFESPAN-ABLE , is available to allow large quantities of software to be enrolled into LIFESPAN with minimal effort . |
| 9 | Feelings that have been firmly repressed , near the surface yet still not sufficiently available to be formed into words , can express themselves through bodily symptoms ; if these feelings relate to permeability , they may well be expressed on the skin - rashes , blotches , spots and boils — and become boundary symptoms . |
| 10 | The National Council advised the Bristol conference of the League of 1935 : We must not allow ourselves to be diverted into activities definitely condemned by the Labour Party which will jeopardize our affiliation to and influence in the Party . |
| 11 | £1 , 50p , 20p , 10p , 5p coins should be stacked in their respective denominations ; 2p , 1p or ½p coins should also be stacked into piles for easy checking and counting , then bundled into the appropriate cash bags supplied by the bank . |
| 12 | The terms under which children could be received into care were considerably widened , the methods of care were made more sensitive to the needs of children and the unified administrative structure ensured more uniform standards of care over the country . |
| 13 | All loose clothing such as overtrousers should be tucked into gaiters and you should learn to walk with your feet a bit further apart than normal . |
| 14 | It was bought by the first buyers for the purpose of reselling in smaller quantities to be compounded into food for cattle and poultry and was resold by them for compounding into pig and poultry food . |
| 15 | ‘ If we knew where one of these things was going to be flown into space , ’ he said , speaking quickly before the words had time to escape , ‘ and we could sort of hang on to the sides or whatever , or maybe drive it like the Truck , and we took you with us , then we could jump off when we got up there and go and find this ship of ours , could n't we ? ’ |
| 16 | Her assumptions are broadly Crocean ; value appeared in the individual 's response to the particular work , but should not be erected into hierarchies , and the reader should cultivate ‘ the receptiveness and disinterestedness which are the conditions of aesthetic experience . ’ |
| 17 | Earlier , on Feb. 7 , up to 70,000 people had protested in Garankuwa , in eastern Bophuthatswana , demanding that their South African citizenship be restored , but Mangope had reaffirmed on Feb. 18 that the homeland would never be reincorporated into South Africa . |
| 18 | The Jordanian Central Bank governor , Mohammad Said Nabulsi , announced on June 13 , 1989 , that they would be placed into liquidation in an attempt to cut heavy currency speculation . |
| 19 | Several airframes had to be placed into store to allow for a less cramped-looked and these left via the small side door through which the new exhibits arrived — witness the tight fit of the HS.125 that was squeezed in on June 28 . |
| 20 | Because of your sickness , an innocent woman is going to die , and your fair Elizabeth is going to be plunged into misery . ’ |
| 21 | Styles , patterns , colours , decoration , these were perpetual , scarcely changing decade upon decade , until the intervention of the trendsetter , that is ; one snap of whose fingers — those sensitive tips continually monitoring the pulse of What 's Next — and a community half the world away would be plunged into chaos , ruin , and confusion with bales and bales of unsaleable indigo , mirrored , bell-sleeved embroidered-yoke blouses to show for their efforts . |
| 22 | He suggested that should these signings go through , the club would be plunged into bankruptcy . |
| 23 | Our society would be plunged into darkness . |
| 24 | Now he could be plunged into Luton 's relegation fight as part of a swap-deal involving Chris Kamara . |
| 25 | Britain 's agriculture industry could be plunged into crisis early next century as fewer young people enter farming , says a survey for the Castrol company . |
| 26 | When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ? |
| 27 | Even a dustbin on a gas ring or glass fibre bottle skips , unheated , may be employed and it is not unknown for an old enamel bathtub to be pressed into service . |
| 28 | Swallowing his pride , Lexandro inveigled , connived , and bribed his way as a junior shrimp into the very Ducas clan gang which his father had heard would soon be pressed into service — an action that grieved his parents . |
| 29 | These and other plastic jars can be pressed into service as back-up filters . |
| 30 | Sometimes the most interesting or unusual fact in the story can be pressed into service in the headline . |