Example sentences of "this [was/were] [adv] [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alois Auer , Director of the Government Printing Office in Vienna , had published a pamphlet , The Discovery of the Natural Printing Process , in 1853 , and this was immediately translated into a number of different languages . |
| 2 | An official from the Region had a post with a Cycleway sign attached ; this was duly knocked into the ground beside the river for the ‘ photo opportunity ’ and then removed , as we were nowhere near the actual Cycleway route . |
| 3 | Melanie saw , with a sinking of the heart , that this was not written into the script . |
| 4 | Iraq was for some years generally regarded as possessing air superiority , although this was not translated into any particular battlefield advantage . |
| 5 | During these years Wordsworth also began The Ruined Cottage ; this was later incorporated into Book i of The Excursion and suffered considerable modification . |
| 6 | Used originally to discover demographic facts about a population , this was later widened into seeking from respondents facts of other sorts , such as marital status , housing conditions , levels of education , leisure use , and even attitudinal materials . |
| 7 | But this was later changed into Japanese calligraphy to read karate-do ( ‘ way of the empty hand ’ ) . |
| 8 | This was then cut into 0.5 cm squares and mixed into the cornflakes . |
| 9 | This was then inserted into Nde I- Xho I digested pET-15b ( Novagen ) vector DNA and the reading frame verified by DNA sequence analysis . |
| 10 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |
| 11 | This was all developing into a video nasty . |
| 12 | This was all turning into Saturday-morning chapter play . |