Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A few years ago we thought the Butter Market could have been made into a little museum but it would have been difficult to cross the roads into it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Public interest ’ ( local jobs and executive homes ) would be pleaded , though if caught in time , the house could have been converted into a dozen flats for local people instead of second homes for outsiders , and the landscaped grounds adapted for the public benefit . |
| 3 | Worried that they might have been dragged into the tanker war in the Gulf , they bought intermediate-range missiles from China in May . |
| 4 | Worried that they might have been dragged into the tanker war in the Gulf , they bought intermediate-range missiles from China in May . |
| 5 | Again , people in the workshop felt that the many issues connected to disability could have been incorporated into the discussion in the other workshops . |
| 6 | In some cases a pre-existing centre , which already possessed an economic role , will have been incorporated into the new system and perhaps attracted other functions as well . |
| 7 | An individual term may be ineffective in law ; or the terms as a whole may not have been incorporated into the contract in question . |
| 8 | Later it may have been incorporated into an enormous palace compound covering a wide swath of the city |
| 9 | Problems may have been built into the original design through the inadequate protection of timber from ground moisture , lack of ventilation or roof-slopes which were insufficiently steep to drain away all rainwater . |
| 10 | Military design and development contracts generally have comparatively thin profit margins , and while an allowance for unexpected extra work will have been built into the contract price , it appears as if GEC-Ferranti seriously underestimated the work involved to make the radar operationally acceptable . |
| 11 | It was said afterwards that the remains of the truck could have been packed into a kitbag . |
| 12 | In analysing the new acting Ferguson was nearer the mark when he suggested that the movies were now coming up with richer and more vital people but Daugherty 's comments serve to remind us that techniques and styles which should have been feeding into a new cinema of experimentation and realism were being used rather to bolster old conventions of melodrama . |
| 13 | The Church in Abyssinia had been rescued from extinction with the help of the Portuguese : without their intervention the Abyssinians might well have been absorbed into the adjacent Muslim world . |
| 14 | Dismissing fears that her daughter might have been tricked into a fake marriage by a man determined to ruin her , Nora tried to think more positively , but her brain persistently returned to the appalling question , ‘ Why an Italian , for God 's sake ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 16 | When he looked at the picture of Tace he might have been looking into a mirror . |
| 17 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 18 | My forest of trees could indeed have been turned into a forest of nerves , with each jagged branch poking into that guilty skull like the accusing fingers of God 's darker or more vengeful angels . |
| 19 | The goods must have been reduced into the custody of the police : A-G 's Reference . |
| 20 | Her boyfriend Doug Robertson is worried that she may have been forced into an arranged marriage . |
| 21 | This is a Latin phrase meaning the ‘ date after which ’ , and only means that the artefact could not have been put into the spoil after it had been dumped , but of course , could be many years earlier in date . |
| 22 | Leather Lane is a weekday market so they could not have been bought there before Monday , and the bags must have been dropped into the letterbox later that morning . |
| 23 | That fact alone makes it clear that they must have been preceded into the air by other vegetarian forms which , judging from the primitive nature of their anatomy , were probably cockroaches , grasshoppers , locusts and crickets . |
| 24 | If he was insincere in this , it is none the less ironic that in 1980 , when many within the Church of England were suggesting that it would be a more effective body if it were disestablished , his name should have been reintroduced into the Prayer Book as a martyr for the cause of Establishment . |
| 25 | black grapes available would have been thrown into the brew to give the wine a little colour , but in Champagne 's naturally crisp climate , the skins of black grapes rarely give much colour to a wine , hence the weak and insipid impressions of early descriptions . |
| 26 | This would be expected because , first , they would have been socialized into a version of mathematics nearer to that of the university ‘ modern ’ pure mathematicians than that of their elders and because , secondly , they would have had a potential interest in changes that could , within schools , challenge the seniority of their elder colleagues or , at least , they would have had less of a vested interest in current practice . |
| 27 | And it worried me that these are the sort of people that would have been advised into the committee . |
| 28 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 29 | Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 . |
| 30 | Speculation that Sir Terence Conran might have been drafted into the job was inaccurate , and he had , in fact , ruled himself out of consideration as long ago as January . |