Example sentences of "it was [adv] [verb] into " in BNC.

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1 It was eventually spurred into action when the majority of the member states began to take unilateral action to control imports of coal into their own territories , so obviating the whole object of the common market since the new controls also applied to imports from other ECSC states .
2 The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 .
3 It was eventually taken into state care in 1912 , and has been open to the public ever since .
4 The ability of the electoral system to produce a government in the way previously expected of it was thus called into question .
5 And where a subversive message was intended , it was easily woven into any subject-matter .
6 It was also tied into the whole range of English Romantic landscape painting , especially Turner , in terms of oozing love for the material and not being afraid to enjoy the application of paint .
7 It was later converted into a better dwelling , but while they were rearing their eight children during the 1590s and early 1600s Thomas and his wife must have found life hard and unpromising .
8 It was later made into a Christian baptistery .
9 A traditionally light vase , like the black-figure neck-amphora ( fig. 55 ) was avoided , and when it was later taken into the red-figure repertory the shape was rethought .
10 It was unwillingly propelled into action by the competing forces within civil society .
11 As ECOMOG tried to continue its peacekeeping role , it was increasingly drawn into a de facto alliance with Johnson 's forces .
12 It is not known if at this stage Sugar was earmarked for preservation , or whether it was simply put into storage along with hundreds of other Lancasters to await their fate .
13 In western Germany in 1990 the building industry produced more than five times as much rubbish as turned up in municipal solid waste — and most of it was simply tipped into Germany 's scarce landfill space .
14 She effectively ran this autonomous branch from the position of secretary until 1894 and remained as consultant until it was fully absorbed into the Institute in 1897 .
15 It was then adopted into the health services at community care level and now operates as a part of the services .
16 This was in the mid 1560s , when Mary was still in power , so that it reads like Knox 's wishful thinking rather than anything else ; and it was then recast into the famous phrase by the Protestant chronicler Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , writing in the 1570s , by which time the representative of the house of Stewart was the child James VI , and the lass had long gone — into English captivity .
17 It was then transformed into a castle by Countess Telfener at the turn of the century and became a great meeting place of the cultured and famous of the area , and a venue for duels .
18 There was also a Methodist chapel in Rimswell , built in 1899 not far from the church , until 1966 when it was imaginatively converted into a comfortable home .
19 For fourteen hundred years Hagia Sophia had been a place of worship : it was now debased into an ancient monument , open to the public for a fee .
20 More importantly , it was now divided into five departments on an essentially geographical basis , three of them handling relations with distinct groups of European states and the other two those with Asiatic ones ( China , Persia , the khanates of central Asia and the little Georgian kingdoms in the Caucasus ) .
21 Labour leaders were quick to praise Mr Kinnock 's achievement in pulling the party back from the brink of disintegration in 1983 , when it was almost beaten into third place .
22 It was like getting into the bath
23 It was like walking into Chicago at times in Walsall and the snowdrops as they used to call their military police with the white steel helmets on they used to ride around in jeeps .
24 Such a clause , if invoked , would obviously encourage a country to reduce its surplus , but it was never called into effect .
25 It was never put into words , nor did it entirely dampen their blistering exchanges .
26 Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion .
27 There it was quickly turned into log cabins and dormitories — all erected on company ground along the fringes of the cuttings .
28 But whatever its humble origins , when the new word was picked up by the newspapers in August 1898 it was quickly transformed into a term of more general notoriety , so that ‘ Hooligan ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ became the controlling words to describe troublesome youths who had previously been known more loosely as ‘ street arabs ’ , ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ roughs ’ .
29 But even then , Koons says , it was hard getting into the swing of things .
30 It was obviously partitioned into two rooms by a rough wooden screen .
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