Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's agriculture industry could be plunged into crisis early next century as fewer young people enter farming , says a survey for the Castrol company . |
| 2 | Now he could be plunged into Luton 's relegation fight as part of a swap-deal involving Chris Kamara . |
| 3 | ( This issue could be developed into a more general consideration of whether police officers should be subject to more stringent codes or rules of behaviour than other people in society , given their position of authority ) . |
| 4 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 5 | The local deposits of tin and copper had been extracted from prehistoric times , the people of the Bronze Age having discovered how to make an alloy of the two metals that could be shaped into knives and tools far superior to the flint axes and other stone tools and weapons they had used hitherto . |
| 6 | There was A1 , in at the birth pangs of the British weapon , where the plutonium was heated in the furnaces so that it could be shaped into the melon-sized spheres for the inner workings of the warheads , and it was no secret amongst the Establishment staff that a dozen years earlier cancers had been rampant amongst the technicians . |
| 7 | The solicitor 's letter added that if Miss Honey would kindly call in to the office as soon as possible , then the property and the money could be transferred into her name very rapidly . |
| 8 | If all the Co-op Bank 's available unlent deposits could be channelled into consumer lending ( which seems far-fetched ) this would add something under five per cent to the total volume of non-housing bank lending to private individuals — a very welcome increase , but less than revolutionary . |
| 9 | Much of this was not respectable but at least it showed that popular music and humour could be channelled into the conventions of legitimate theatre . |
| 10 | To start with a relatively easy issue , part of the funds raised could be channelled into public sector investment projects , of which there is presently in Britain a substantial backlog ( e.g. modernisation of the railways , energy conservation measures , renewal of urban sewage systems , accelerated house-building programme ) . |
| 11 | They could be channelled into a more cost effective cancer prevention scheme . |
| 12 | Meanwhile MGM went even further and harnessed the considerable talents and appeal of Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow in Riff Raff , which attempted to show how simple San Francisco fishermen could be led into militancy by a Communist agitator . |
| 13 | It was then that I began to understand how archaeologists could be led into serious error if they decided in advance what they were going to find . |
| 14 | It seems clear that , with careful safeguards , we need some legal machinery , similar to the provision of Place of Safety Orders for children , by which an old person could be received into residential care for their own protection , at least for a limited period of time , which would afford a breathing space for all concerned and enable a proper assessment to be made of the situation — including the wishes of the old person once they were out of the violent or neglectful environment . |
| 15 | The terms under which children could be received into care were considerably widened , the methods of care were made more sensitive to the needs of children and the unified administrative structure ensured more uniform standards of care over the country . |
| 16 | A study of a small series of sixth-century , square-headed , brooches showed how the various brooches could be placed into a sequence because of the interchange of parts of the decoration on them . |
| 17 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 18 | The DMs could be converted into the holder 's domestic currency or another currency . |
| 19 | These cots were specially made , arranged in tiers of three , and could be converted into comfortable couches for sitting up cases . |
| 20 | This , she reports , was " sending the local library mad " , but since there was no way that a small branch library could be converted into " an adequate resource centre to plunder " , some in-school development was a necessary alternative . |
| 21 | ‘ Her eyesight 's not too good now , ’ she continued , as though that might somehow render her mother 's behaviour less odd , as though by mere words she could be converted into a harmless , ordinary , ageing old lady , just like other people 's mothers . |
| 22 | Given a slight negative movement of base level , underwater sandbanks may appear above high tide level and could be converted into offshore bars by wave action . |
| 23 | This could be converted into a worldwide trip , so Roland went on to the ‘ Hot Spot ’ to try and get around the world in 80 seconds answering as many questions as possible . |
| 24 | Under the agreement , debt could be converted into five varieties of concessionary bonds , each requiring the banks to offer discounts of 35 per cent on the face value of debt owed to them , in return for higher interest rates on the remainder . |
| 25 | The value of " chips " , which could be converted into ready cash , is clear . |
| 26 | A vandalised chapel in Barnard Castle , the suspected haunt of devil worshippers , could be converted into a stonemason 's workshop and studio . |
| 27 | Alternatively , a copy of the details of PI could be duplicated into PS . |
| 28 | In his attempt to construct a model of the molecule , given the valencies of these two elements , there was no obvious way that the twelve atoms could be arranged into a conventional chain , and he had been wrestling with the problem for quite some time . |
| 29 | Our analysis of the search space showed how a potentially depth-first search strategy could be diverted into breadth-first , even given good bottom-up processing . |
| 30 | Hinchley could be thrust into the relegation clash with Chester on Saturday . |