Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] of [noun] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pausing only to pour buckets of water into the burning dustbins , and to be sick in the basin on the landing , Rainbow races for the nearest pay-phone , to ruin several people 's evenings . |
| 2 | I place the rod in the rest and begin to feed pinches of flake into the current in a spot which will carry them under the raft . |
| 3 | RE needs to sow seeds of doubt into the current widespread acceptability of secularism . |
| 4 | The money would be spent specifically on projects to reduce emissions of pollutants into the air and into rivers and the Baltic Sea . |
| 5 | It is easy enough to programme a computer to direct spacecraft towards a long succession of likely stars , to carry out simple tests to establish whether any of the planets of those stars might be capable of sustaining life , and , when appropriate , to dump consignments of spores into the planet 's atmosphere . |
| 6 | One of his first undertakings was to transfer the Tropical African Services Course from the Imperial Institute in South Kensington , ‘ which is not frequented by other students of a kind to make good Administrative officers ’ , to Oxford and Cambridge , where ‘ it would , I am sure , spread interest in our services among other undergraduates of the type we want ’ ; and the great triumph of his career as a bureaucrat was to persuade the Warren Fisher committee , set up in 1927 to examine methods of recruitment into the Colonial Service , that it was unnecessary to look further afield for men ‘ who possess the qualities of mind , character and personality which make for success in the leadership of native … races ’ . |
| 7 | A more radical approach would have been to introduce scales of costs into the High Court . |
| 8 | For water systems , precautionary chlorination is carried out before cleaning , to prevent dispersal of bacteria into the environment . |
| 9 | It can be coloured in many shades by adding metal impurities , as the medieval glass-makers knew , who used their scientific skills to bring subtleties of light into the great European cathedrals . |