Example sentences of "[verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The energy and excitement that music videos have caused in a young audience has to be consumated into musical film . ’ |
| 2 | Those who coped less effectively , and allowed themselves to become trapped into unsatisfactory lifestyles , were found to be more likely to become depressed , perhaps because they had reduced their chances of achieving a dependable , intimate relationship with their husband , or increased their chances of stressful lives . |
| 3 | ‘ I should have thought , ’ said Charlotte , trapped into genuine interest and speculation , ‘ that they 'd have built just a little further from the river . |
| 4 | Sometimes the blood oozed into great black puddles over which huge swarms of flies hovered . |
| 5 | Watson discusses the meaning of work and separates motivation to work into intrinsic and extrinsic satisfactions . |
| 6 | But the paper added : ‘ It is also right that people should not be forced to work into old age in jobs that may , on the one hand , impose physical or mental demands which are beyond their capacity or , on the other , be boring and repetitive . ’ |
| 7 | Members of certain ethnic and caste groups clustered into specific occupations . |
| 8 | As the death toll mounted , and the futility of the war of attrition on the Western Front seeped into public consciousness , the pacifists moved onto the offensive . |
| 9 | Inevitably , in time , some of the progressive ideas being put forward seeped into public consciousness . |
| 10 | Most of the men who earlier had transformed the small areas of carpet beside the emergency exits into makeshift mosques now sported neckties — the most blatant symbol of Westernism . |
| 11 | Isabel 's hands clenched into tiny fists at her sides as she struggled against the waves of savage anger threatening to sweep her beyond caution . |
| 12 | Hands still clenched into defensive fists , she watched him jump lithely on board the launch , fire the engine , manoeuvre expertly out into the creek . |
| 13 | The bonds between opposite bases form , sugar-phosphate bonds form , and the daughter molecules coil into double helices ( for diagram see pg . |
| 14 | Just before half-time City came back with a goal from Ian Baird it was well made and well taken … food for thought for the United defence and of course Smith who started off in the directors box but was down on the touchline after this incident in which David Penney charged into Junior Bent … |
| 15 | Now the rattle and roar of the tube faded abruptly as it surfaced into bright sunlight . |
| 16 | As it flopped its way forward , the vulnerable underside came down on the ring just as the mini-grenade in the stone erupted into satisfying flame . |
| 17 | Throughout 1988 there were reports of growing unrest in Armenia which eventually erupted into major dashes , with tales of large-scale rioting and murder with tanks and troops on the streets . |
| 18 | Tensions between ethnic groups in Sind ( see pp. 37150-51 ) again erupted into major violence on Oct. 1 , 1989 , when members of the extremist Sind National Alliance ( SNA ) , demanding independence for the province , occupied Sukkar airport and burnt the Pakistani flag . |
| 19 | The repugnance they felt towards more decorated churches occasionally erupted into violent bouts of iconoclasm . |
| 20 | Frustration in urban areas over the first round defeat of the main opposition Democratic Party ( DP ) erupted into anti-communist rioting on the morning of April 2 in the northern city of Shkodër . |
| 21 | The memory was too much for him and he erupted into loud , desperate sobs , a pitiful sound to hear . |
| 22 | The conditions of service , the harshness of the environment , the atrocious difficulties associated with travel and food supplies , the ravages of scurvy , and the son of men who went out in search of new lands for the tsar , all contributed to the tense atmosphere which sometimes erupted into bloody conflict . |
| 23 | In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West . |
| 24 | From time to time the tensions of clerical dualism erupted into fierce controversy , but in 1341 at least the eruption resulted in no marked shift in clergy-laity relations , not even with regard to the employment of clerical ministers by the crown . |
| 25 | The Express reports : ‘ Labour 's battle for power erupted into open civil war yesterday … the party 's fragile unity began to crumble … ’ |
| 26 | Let us expurgate from the immaturity of our environmental thought , that essence of crepuscular darkness which our sciolism leads us to extrapolate into quotidian existence . |
| 27 | As the sun rose into clear skies and burned down on the plain of the Forth , you would say the exposed army opposite would have the worst of it , despite their shields and their awnings . |
| 28 | Hooligans often take care to evade police escorts and to slip into rival territories unobserved . |
| 29 | But his eye is too keen and his feel for the different histories of these nations too strong to slip into one-answer explanations . |
| 30 | Looking over the abyss of infinite possibility , they find it easy to slip into endless striving and pursuit of whatever is , at that moment , desired . |