Example sentences of "have been [verb] into [pron] " in BNC.

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1 A small skylight has been cut into its dome , while a hole in the floor connects to a hollow chamber .
2 Very little research has been done into its cause among adolescents and adults .
3 In my groin there are twitchy , random jolts like the shorting of a fuse , as though a spatula has been thrust into me and wrapped around my uterus like a corkscrew .
4 Banyan Systems Inc says Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT has been integrated into its Vines enterprise networks : Banyan 's Windows NT client support will offer users complete integration into the Vines network with access to Banyan 's enterprise network services , all linked together with the StreetTalk III global directory service , enabling NT to be implemented as a Vines client or application server within the Banyan Vines enterprise .
5 Banyan Systems Inc says Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT has been integrated into its Vines enterprise networks .
6 Uprights are traditional British favourites and are even more popular now that storage for all the extras has been integrated into their design .
7 A meteorology division in the Ahnenerbe has been looking into it .
8 The engine generator has been housed at the rear of the Matthew Kirtley Museum and this part of the building has been turned into something similar to a vintage powerhouse .
9 The United Kingdom is a signatory to both the Convention ( 1951 ) and the Covenant ( 1976 ) although neither has been incorporated into our domestic law .
10 More than 10 million of licence-payers ' money has been sunk into what some saw as a ‘ last-ditch ’ attempt by the Beeb to compete with ITV in the ratings war .
11 ‘ When you did not come to see him I made myself a vow that you would face reality and not some story that has been hammered into you since childhood .
12 A judicial inquiry has been initiated into his case but to AI 's knowledge , no progress has been made .
13 SIR — With such well-informed media personnel telling us every hour on the hour that Messrs Kinnock , Hattersley , Patten , Mandela , Smith and Gould are ‘ expected ’ to make an announcement after the weekend , or within a day or two , stating that they will do this or that , probably because of this reason , possibly causing this response — is it absolutely necessary for us to have to endure the appearance of the person concerned to tell us what has been drummed into us until our eyes stick out like organ-stops ?
14 Note the way in which the pianistic idiom in bars 3 and 4 has been translated into its orchestral equivalent , and the use of the bassoons in bars 7 and 8 which prevents the otherwise somewhat tenuous texture from falling to pieces .
15 Altogether a lot of energy has been put into it .
16 For Marx , the value of a commodity is determined by the total amount of labour that has been put into it and this labour ‘ constitutes exactly the fund out of which surplus value , or profit is formed ’ .
17 It is ludicrous that so little has been put into it hitherto .
18 When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son .
19 Perry was a thick-set , bull-necked man who looked as if he 'd been eased into his suit with a shoe-horn .
20 She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you .
21 She 'd been pressured into it by the situation .
22 In an English village it would have been converted into something quaint , selling teas and postcards .
23 And the payments must have been planned into your cash flow , or you 'll go down .
24 The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it .
25 He suggested that extinct crocodiles found in the fossil record could have been transformed into their modern relatives when a modification of the environment triggered off the transition to a new growth pattern .
26 During evolution it could have been modified into its present form .
27 Yet they were here today in gratifying numbers , a double row of Larks looking very bronzed and weathered from striding over those ancestral acres , which men like her husband and Lizzie Braithwaite 's husband could never possess ; and their cousin , Colonel Covington-Pym , Master of Foxhounds , with his rather glorious , highly intimidating wife , a tall , red-haired woman who could be seen in Frizingley sometimes wearing a black riding-habit so tight that she must have been stitched into it — Linnet said — and mounted on a colossus of a horse very nearly the same colour as her hair .
28 Somehow Koons has turned what might have been titillating into something with the erotic appeal of a smutty , B-grade slasher film — the images draw you in only by their sheer gross-out power .
29 The sacred spring , however , continued to attract visitors as the latest votive object found to have been cast into it is a penannular brooch with enamelled terminals of late-fourth- or early-fifth-century date .
30 Struggling through the cotton wool that seemed to have been stuffed into her brain , Julia found that announcement of savagery almost impossible to believe .
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