Example sentences of "might be [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oman 's economy benefited from oil price rises following the invasion and some reports estimated that a projected budget deficit for 1990 might be turned into a surplus . |
| 2 | Carrying hot metal , or tripping blindfold between red-hot plough shares , or plunging the arm in boiling water were the usual tests , though the accused might be flung into a pond to see whether he sank or not , or forced to eat an ounce of bread or cheese to see if it stuck in the gullet ! |
| 3 | They might be moving into a premises that 's already er , there now . |
| 4 | There are several ways in which the five responses might be summarized into a single score for each month which could then be traced over time . |
| 5 | At the same time , however , Bauer and Renner initially took an optimistic view of the outcome of the rivalry between the two movements ; the multinational Habsburg Empire , they thought , might be transformed into a socialist federation of nations , in which the concept of a ‘ nation ’ would itself change and the principle of nationality would begin to lose some of its importance as a basis for the formation of states . |
| 6 | And they must do that as the possibility increases that they might be sucked into a wider Balkans war . |
| 7 | The following ingredients might be combined into a simulation : |
| 8 | This had flowered and fruited and , although too late to be included in the Dictionary it might be brought into a later supplement because several new plants had been omitted once their initial letter had been passed in the main work . |
| 9 | And were there , in any case , enough teachers and schoolbooks to turn any policies that might be agreed into a reality ? |
| 10 | In October he invented the celebrated image of " Chinghis-Khan with telegraphs ' to buttress the argument that Russia might be turning into a sort of latter-day oriental despotism . |
| 11 | For example it might be forced into a river , bog or straight through a wall . |
| 12 | Such ideas might be translated into a more secular context nearer home . |