Example sentences of "may be [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a local authority 's education programme may be subdivided into pre-school education , primary education , secondary education and adult education . |
| 2 | The spinelets are crowded with 9 or more points which may be subdivided into secondary points giving the crown a very irregular appearance . |
| 3 | The doctors point out in the British Medical Journal that , though crack dependency is not a direct risk factor for Aids , prostitutes ‘ trying to maintain expensive crack habits may be tempted into unsafe sex practices … which in turn may lead to an increase in the spread of Aids ’ . |
| 4 | In residential environments where boundary enforcement is strong , adolescents may be tempted into boundary-transgressing behaviour which may well generalise later on to drug/alcohol seeking behaviour . |
| 5 | Each of these regions may be differentiated into separate sclerites . |
| 6 | With appropriate sieves , particles varying between 0·002 and 250 mm may be separated into regular size class intervals . |
| 7 | New ideas may be assimilated into given modes of thinking or given modes of thinking may be altered to accommodate new ideas . |
| 8 | The Marketing Mix is concerned with the realities and practicalities of how these marketing objectives may be turned into specific marketing plans and activities . |
| 9 | Adults are familiar with day-to-day questions of morality or immorality and the extent to which good citizens may be turned into bad citizens or bad citizens into worse . |
| 10 | Fizzy drink bottles made of PET may be turned into fibre-fill for coats and duvets , while detergent bottles are now being re-used to make new non-food bottles . |
| 11 | Labial or Lip Sounds Sounds which may be sub-divided into bilabial : sounds articulated by the two lips , eg/p , m/and labio-dental : sounds articulated by the lower lip against the upper teeth , eg/f/ . |
| 12 | State enterprises may be converted into limited-liability companies or joint-stock companies , but financial institutions or saving co-operatives may only be converted into joint-stock companies . |
| 13 | In many cases , if viewed more lightly , it may be incorporated into marital sexuality ; but the feelings of the partner do not always allow of this . |
| 14 | First , the class , religious and ethnic backgrounds of judges are likely to have an impact on their general attitudes , which in turn may be translated into particular views on certain legal issues . |
| 15 | Cheese is always classified into the above four main categories , but individual cheeses may be put into different groups according to the author 's opinion . |
| 16 | Others may be drawn into local affairs by organisations such as parties or groups ( ‘ Mobilization ’ ) . |
| 17 | The working-class occupations may be divided into skilled , semi-skilled and unskilled strata , and life-chances broadly differ according to the skill level . |
| 18 | Private companies may be divided into limited and unlimited companies , and private limited companies can be further subdivided into those limited by shares and those limited by guarantee . |
| 19 | For example , if identification of an individual is made via an address , then it is critical that this data element is detailed enough to reflect the fact that the location may be divided into separate units |
| 20 | The costs of children may be divided into direct costs — the outlay on the baby and mother around the time of birth , and indirect costs — the amounts foregone by mothers who take time out of paid employment , and who may return to work part-time and at lower rates of pay . |
| 21 | The formal definition of these classes in the SGML syntax used to express the TEI scheme makes it possible for users of the scheme to extend it in a simple and controlled way : new elements may be added into existing classes , and existing elements renamed or undefined , without any need for extensive revision of the TEI document type definitions — though this is perhaps a benefit which only those who have ever tried to modify an existing dtd by hand will truly appreciate . |
| 22 | Joints may be enlarged into deep narrow inlets such as the geos developed in the Old Red Sandstone of Caithness . |
| 23 | When seeds start to germinate , tray may be brought into gentle heat . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got an open mind on my future but I would love to stay on , ’ confessed Butcher , who has conquered fears that he may be forced into premature retirement through knee trouble . |