Example sentences of "been [verb] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ( h ) you will see yellow has been blended into pale lilac and in ( i ) pale lilac has been rubbed into French blue . |
| 2 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 3 | Most people have not been indoctrinated into religious faith but into a questioning or ignoring of religion as basically superseded if not actually false . |
| 4 | But her daughter has been placed into foster care and now the father is making an all-out bid to get legal custody . |
| 5 | The group was finally disbanded in 1969 , by which time China had been plunged into virtual anarchy and economic collapse . |
| 6 | Streets and homes have been plunged into random darkness . |
| 7 | Does the Secretary of State recognise that the access funds are in no sense a substitute for student eligibility for social security and for vacation hardship allowance and that mature students in particular have been plunged into severe hardship by the Government 's policies ? |
| 8 | In contrast to this , I wish to argue that if disabled people display psychological abnormalities , this is because they have been socialised into such traits as a result of the ways in which society meets , or fails to meet , our needs , and that the claim that such features are a consequence of impairment is itself an aspect of the oppression of disabled people since it misidentifies , and thus does nothing to overcome , the main source of psychological distress . |
| 9 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 10 | This centre for the elderly has been broken into four times in two years . |
| 11 | This centre for people with special needs has been broken into four times in nine days . |
| 12 | In the last year his house has been broken into seven times , and burglars have tried to break in on at least another four occasions . |
| 13 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 14 | Balsa wood can also be smoked after it has been broken into little pieces , but some say it is even less rewarding than banana skins . |
| 15 | Our first call , Burgoynes Garage , which has been broken into three times . |
| 16 | However , when it arrived in Suffolk it had been broken into three pieces , so the star quickly agreed to send a replacement . |
| 17 | In all these ways the surface has been broken into fine particles . |
| 18 | The original impetus of the CRG has been diverted into specific applications . |
| 19 | Yeah , actually se , I sa , actually she said oh what , have you been walking into this time ? |
| 20 | Practically all aspects of the curriculum will have been programmed into machine-usable form by 1985 … |
| 21 | On the one hand , ideas have been simplified into reduced versions which often bear little resemblance to their originals in the disciplinary contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 22 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 23 | In some cases , even the notion of ‘ the freedom of the press ’ has been transposed into other contexts and used to defend practices in radio and television . |
| 24 | The former technology-specific units and business area management divisions have been collapsed into single structures around the various technologies . |
| 25 | It was possible that , like many of the casual spectators , the key members of the crew had all been frozen into temporary immobility by the looming presence of the ovoid , but Rostov was inclined to suspect the convenience of such a coincidence . |
| 26 | To get this little lot cost us £1.35 , which is n't a lot though , to be honest , it could have been compressed into two windows without losing any usefulness , and cut the price by a third . |
| 27 | Beyond it , visible through gaps where the iron had been torn into ragged wings and beaten back , was a junkyard in which caravans were parked . |
| 28 | England get the long rest because their five group matches have been squeezed into seven days while other teams , like Pakistan , the hosts , have their pool games spread over eight . |
| 29 | England get the long rest because their five group matches have been squeezed into seven days while other teams , like Pakistan , the hosts , have their pool games spread over eight . |
| 30 | In line with its philosophy of getting close to the consumer , GBW has been reorganised into four operating regions : Ireland , rest of Europe , Africa & americas and Asia/Pacific . |