Example sentences of "into which [pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes : ‘ among [ the Dinka ] I had that experience of daily conversation which enables one to discriminate , as we take for granted in the language into which we were born , between what people mean and what they say . |
| 2 | Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves . |
| 3 | People belonged to their parents ' jati and automatically followed the occupation of the jati into which they were born . |
| 4 | Possibly this will mean changes in behaviour ( such as the role of the man in housework ) which violate the norms and values into which they were socialised . |
| 5 | She said he was driving the car into which she was dragged after being grabbed from behind . |
| 6 | All of these were places of the gods into which he was absorbed in a continuous journey of existence for as long as eternity might last . |
| 7 | Simultaneously the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] drew him to the Catholic Church , into which he was received in 1846 . |
| 8 | An important example is George Crabbe , who grew up in poverty but eventually became a priest ; although his poetry is deeply informed by the experience of poverty , he is alienated in many respects from the class into which he was born . |
| 9 | Frederick Barbarossa 's exploits are all the more interesting in the context of the type of society into which he was born . |
| 10 | The story the DTI report tells is of a highly successful small businessman who found himself out of his depth in the big league into which he was propelled by the Manpower acquisition . |
| 11 | Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) . |
| 12 | The Southern Capital had been divided into eight segments , like slices of the round , flat loaves the Semite guest workers baked , each segment 's inner edge bisecting one of the main quarters of the town , into which it was split by the two main thoroughfares , one running north-to-south , and the other east-to-west , which met at the centre . |
| 13 | The arch of Porta Romana ai Bastioni , to give it its full title , was built in 1598 to commemorate Margherita of Austria leaving the city on her way to marry Philip III of Spain , although the ramparts into which it was fitted had been erected half a century before . |
| 14 | The largest of the nine stones into which it was shaped , the largest Star of Africa ( 530.2 carats ) , was mounted at the head of the Sceptre with the Cross , the second , a cushion-shaped stone of 317.4 carats , was incorporated in the front of the Imperial State Crown ( see Frontispiece ) , displacing the Stuart sapphire , and the third and fourth were mounted in the consort 's crown . |
| 15 | For the converted and those seeking to become so , the necessary support and pressure came from membership of the Society and participation in the regular local " class meetings " into which it was divided . |