Example sentences of "[conj] into the " in BNC.

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1 This is usually expressed in terms of pushing an activity underground ( eg pornography ) or into the backstreets ( eg abortion ) or abroad ( eg experiments on embryos ) .
2 The agisters were ordered to pay the agistment dues into the Wardrobe or into the Exchequer , and the sheriffs were commanded to compel them to do so by distraint where necessary .
3 However , dogs may not be taken around the lake area , through the tropical house , into the children 's farmyard , or into the Bat House .
4 Cover caps are available to mask the heads — these either push into a counter-bored hole ( larger than the recessed screw head ) or into the cross-head of the screw itself .
5 In such conditions power slips away from parliament , either into the hands of criminal organisations who control huge sections of the economy or into the hands of powerful industrialists .
6 The caddies , according to the Rules , were ‘ not allowed outside their enclosure until engaged ’ or on the course , unless caddying , or into the clubhouse ‘ under any pretence whatever ’ .
7 They can drive us into the arms of God , or into the clutches of evil .
8 The biggest crime of all was to go round to the front of house or into the street in ‘ full slap ’ , as stage make-up was called .
9 At any given moment our mind is wandering into the future or into the past ; we are very rarely present in the here and now .
10 The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless .
11 I knew that if I had to drive to the park or into the country first , then the walking would never get done except at weekends .
12 Those who have come into a home meeting or into the public celebrations have met God in an unmistakable way .
13 Sacred to the Aboriginals of the Kimberleys , the images are revered as awesome beings who in primeval times wandered around the landscape , instructing the indigenous people in the use of weapons and tools and initiating tribal laws , rites and customs , and after completing their task they disappeared into the heavens or into the ground .
14 The child is removed to another place , usually a bedroom or into the hall , to avoid any reinforcement for the aggressive behaviour .
15 The small sheet for the Singer 600 or 604 , Superba S47 , White 1502 , or into the memory of the System 9000 .
16 ‘ In case they get lost or into the wrong hands ?
17 And senior teachers , especially heads , have the additional option of the flight into bureaucracy , or into the development of a national reputation for something or other , that enables them to spend considerable time away from school at important meetings .
18 However , if our policies once allow for the possibility of the human race existing for ever , or into the indefinite future , one can take average happiness over all future time as the effective goal , even from the totalistic point of view , since the contribution to quantity of happiness from population size will anyway be maximal .
19 Habermas argues that crises have been displaced from the economic realm into the state apparatus itself or into the cultural system ( see pp. 264–69 ) .
20 Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts .
21 He lay awake through the night wishing he could go home or into the sitting room and watch a horror movie , and then , as the room paled with the threat of day , he drifted into an uneasy sleep , finally waking in full light with a foul taste in his mouth and the disjointed memory of a dream in which he was trapped in a lift dressed in women 's underwear and wondering how to explain it when the fire brigade finally came and rescued him .
22 a col , because it is no more than I , 200 feet high , but from it in fact you can see a great distance to both north and south , over the low hills and wide , cultivated valleys in the direction of Orthez and Pau , or into the forests and middling mountains towards the frontier .
23 The first was that , from the inter-war years up to the year of the study , men of all class origins have become progressively more likely to move into professional , administrative and managerial positions — or into the service class of modern British society .
24 Individual fetal cells with specific immunophenotypes were found to differentiate either into haematopoietic precursors or into the stromal cells capable of supporting them .
25 Or into the small money-box that each child had .
26 Transgenic animals with deleted or mutant tumour suppressor genes provide an elegant model for correction of inherited predispositions to cancer by gene transfer either into particular tissues or into the whole organism .
27 There was nowhere else for the man to go other than back , or into the canal itself .
28 He was aware of the lath and plaster clinging to the bottom of the joists ; put a foot through that and you 'd be right through the ceiling below ; chap could fall slap into the bath from here , probably ; or into the twins ' room , maybe ; perish the thought ; daddy coming crashing through the ceiling , give the little perishers nightmares for the rest of their lives .
29 It 's a clear , almost colourless liquid in a little bottle with a spout on it , and Mother would put on her glasses and measure a drop or two very carefully into a drink for us , or into the water for the cattle .
30 The significance of this is that the orbits of planets , like the earth , around the sun would be unstable : the least disturbance from a circular orbit ( such as would be caused by the gravitational attraction of other planets ) would result in the earth spiraling away from or into the sun .
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