Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vines can be lifted high off the ground to avoid frost ; dropped as low as possible to benefit from heat reflected by stony ground at night ; generously spaced along the rows to attract the sun and avoid humidity ; or intensively cultivated into a canopy of foliage to avoid too much sun and encourage humidity in dry areas . |
| 2 | Eliot , Evelyn Waugh , Tolkien , Virginia Woolf , Gertrude Stein , Harold Pinter , Sylvia Plath , Max Beerbohm , to name a haphazard miscellany , advance , hover uncertainly , or slowly fade into obscurity ? |
| 3 | They had more or less drifted into a relationship , meeting at lectures , having the occasional meal together . |
| 4 | A mechanism must thus be provided whereby one set of pairs can modify or suddenly change into another . |
| 5 | The potentially harmful beings may be described by the adjective yabud ( bad , harmful , ugly ) , but whenever thus designated , the speaker will invariably qualify this by saying that they are not ‘ truly bad ’ because they only cause harm if a person breaks a rule , or inadvertently falls into a trap . |
| 6 | An assistant education officer is in charge of one of the half dozen or so branches into which the work of the education service is divided , such as secondary education or further education . |
| 7 | Historians will want to examine whether Mr Clinton was really the first choice of those new Democrats , or merely stepped into a breach when others , such as Sam Nunn , a senator from Georgia , or Al Gore , now the vice-president , were measured and found wanting . |
| 8 | The man who is validly baptised or rightly instituted into office in the Church is assured that he has the Holy Spirit . |
| 9 | You can but it whole or already cut into joints , such as saddle or hind legs . |
| 10 | It was hard to see if he was amused , or just squinting into the glare . |
| 11 | It is easy to book your Warm Hearted Weekend by telephone , by post , or just call into your local travel agent . |
| 12 | Notes for this purpose are usually selective and may be discarded ( either after use or once integrated into your permanent notes ) . |
| 13 | Nowadays appreciations are often condensed , perhaps into a catalogue introduction , or possibly fitted into the preface for a book of illustrations . |
| 14 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 15 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 16 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 17 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 18 | Here in London I 'll be bound sooner or later to run into Madeleine . |
| 19 | Inevitably it has qualitative differences and is not easily written or smoothly integrated into the ‘ isms ’ or historical categories of the discipline . |
| 20 | Once the body had been placed in the coffin and the fitted pillow positioned under the head , these ‘ sheets ’ were folded over the remains and either pinned together or roughly sewn into place . |
| 21 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 22 | The Commission for the Transformation of the LCY not only had to contend with the opposing Slovene and Serbian proposals , but also with proposals that the party be reconstituted as a Socialist Party of Yugoslavia , or even split into a communist and a socialist party . |
| 23 | A phobia about birds , for example , may not sound so terrible — after all you do n't have to keep chickens or buy a budgie — but when you are terrified to leave your house ( or even go into your own garden ) in case a sparrow or a robin comes too dose , your life can become a total misery . |
| 24 | Just as they can not cope with the nutritional inferiority of a vegetarian diet , so they find it hard to deal with even a moderate dose of alcohol and may start to vomit , collapse or even go into a coma . |
| 25 | A further significant change in political religious attitudes occurred with the liberalization of legislation prohibiting contraceptives to be bought or sold , or even imported into the state . |
| 26 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 27 | Some peasants effectively found themselves forced to become landless agricultural labourers on the estates the Ottomans and mamluks carved out for themselves , or even forced into the cities . |
| 28 | Since the second world war , but especially since the 1960s , the role of ‘ national economies ’ has been undermined or even brought into question by the major transformations in the international division of labour , whose basic units are transnational or multinational enterprises of all sizes , and by the corresponding development of international centres and networks of economic transactions which are , for practical purposes , outside the control of state governments . |
| 29 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 30 | They sat in rows and watched television or simply stared into the distance . |