Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] was [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Harland & Wolff was converted into a limited company in 1888 , he became a director or principal . |
| 2 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 3 | David Fishlock , science editor of the Financial Times , told me that the FT ‘ took it seriously ’ because of being told that Harwell was looking into it . |
| 4 | ‘ It is fortunate , ’ wrote the critic in the school 's magazine , ‘ that Richard was born into our Royal Family , because if he led a revolution it would probably be very successful . ’ |
| 5 | Benninghoff , a political adviser to Hodge , reported in October 1945 that Korea was divided into two groups — the Radical/Communist and Conservative/Democratic . |
| 6 | The major difference was that north Korea evolved along wholly different lines and that Korea was divided into two states . |
| 7 | The superintendent said she wanted some men to investigate the stories that Nicola was looking into before her death — child porn and drugs . |
| 8 | There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate . |
| 9 | In the light of what was to follow , it could be argued that Scapula was panicked into rash measures , excusable only as military necessities , but their effect on the Britons was to be as deplorable for them as for Rome . |
| 10 | The fact that Europe was split into ten zones reflects the politics of the global system rather than its technology , and suggests that ‘ the world is not shrinking everywhere like a deflated balloon , but very irregularly , more like a dried apple , furrowed and distorted ’ ( Cherry , 1978 , p.135 ) . |
| 11 | After Helen 's experience the family had insisted that Anne was booked into a hospital and she entered Mill Road a day before the birth . |
| 12 | Of similar champion qualities but without the rough and tumble approach of the male Connors , is the feminine German , Steffi Graf , who was born around the time that Connors was striding into the competitive world of senior international tennis . |
| 13 | The news ends speculation that Argos was to move into the multi-million pound redevelopment planned for the Vernon Road bus station site . |
| 14 | The fact that Mosley was turned into a reforming politician by the First World War highlighted his dilemma . |
| 15 | Moreover , when we consider the courses that Pound was led into by his conviction of the civic responsibility of the man of letters — his money pamphlets of the 1930s , his desperate visit home in 1938 to keep the USA out of war with Italy , particularly his wartime broadcasts over Rome radio — we have some right to conclude either that the artist has no civic responsibility at all , or else that that responsibility can safely be discharged only in his art and nowhere else . |
| 16 | She was nineteen and choked by the immensity of her reaction to this man , unable to breathe or stir , and panicked by the conviction that Luke was seeing into her secret self , invading , bent on vandalising and stealing . |
| 17 | Her mother was trying to quieten her and Hawkins was disappearing into the stables . |
| 18 | ‘ Is it ? ’ said Fael-Inis , the golden eyes glowing and piercing , so that Fergus felt as if Fael-Inis was seeing into his mind . |
| 19 | If Richard was to step into his dead brother 's shoes then why should not John — for as yet John was still Lackland — step into Richard 's shoes ? |
| 20 | In 664 , the Synod of Whitby effectively dissolved the Celtic Church , and Ireland was brought into the Roman fold . |
| 21 | The subject of rue Roland did not come up again in the course of the evening until Loretta was stepping into a taxi for Islington outside the restaurant . |
| 22 | The benefits of this , the company claims , are minimal heat dissipation and power consumption , saving a customer $200 per workstation per year in electricity costs — in fact , it attests that if Powermaster was incorporated into every personal computer in the UK , then the UK would need one less nuclear power station . |
| 23 | If anything , these developments strengthened the links with England : the sugar planters , just like the tobacco farmers , needed a market to which they could send their staple export product , and England was turning into a market that was always ready to absorb new products for domestic consumption or for re-export through its expanding commercial system . |
| 24 | Then Hitler invaded Russia , everybody remembered old man Eismark had been a pinko , and Gustav was hove into the night . ’ |
| 25 | Worrying delays and cost increases emerged soon after construction began in January 1988 and Eurotunnel was forced into lengthy negotiations with Transmanche Link which resulted in significant management changes announced in the early part of 1989 . |
| 26 | Leading Bolsheviks , including Trotsky who now joined the party , were arrested , their press was attacked , and Lenin was driven into hiding in Finland . |
| 27 | More immediately though , Carl Theodor moved to Munich , where members of his court were eventually to follow him , and Mannheim was plunged into a state of mourning with all concert , theatre and opera performances cancelled , and a considerable impact on the local economy . |
| 28 | At the beginning of September , the doctors recommended an operation , and Albert was moved into a nursing home . |
| 29 | The bedroom door had burst open and Peter was striding into the room . |
| 30 | Later , the influence of Saint-Simon and Comte was introduced into English humanism through the efforts of John Stuart Mill ( 1806–73 ) . |