Example sentences of "is [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He also demonstrates how hard it is to maintain this view , and how easy it is to lapse into logocentric assumptions .
2 The fear is that 65 per cent of this sum is to go into nuclear power , on the grounds of its low levels of greenhouse gas emissions .
3 For older people he is implicitly saying that the usual pattern is to go into residential care ’ .
4 All drainage , which will contain some formaldehyde solution , is drained into closed vessels .
5 The building is partitioned into three sections , the central one being the main mill , with two dormer windows in the roof .
6 Short lengths of net can be used so that ideally the enclosed space is partitioned into three sections using two nets set parallel to each other .
7 Along the bottom of the mandible the incisor is broken into three fragments ; the body of the mandible is broken into one main piece and a large number of smaller fragments ; and the molars at the top are ready to fall out and the posterior molar has almost disintegrated .
8 His route of 250 kilometres is broken into 13 stages and runs from Byrness in Northumbria to Milngavie in Strathclyde .
9 Along the bottom of the mandible the incisor is broken into three fragments ; the body of the mandible is broken into one main piece and a large number of smaller fragments ; and the molars at the top are ready to fall out and the posterior molar has almost disintegrated .
10 In order to allow parameters to be passed in registers , the set of window registers is broken into three parts : high , local , and low .
11 The volcanic area is formed into steep cliffs with outcrops of rock and the cathedral is perched on a ledge near the top of one of these , above the town , which clings to platforms on the hillside ( 274 ) .
12 The hope of the Working party , which consists of the Nature Conservancy Council and Glasgow University representatives as well as some Rentokil involvement is to continue into 1992 and will complete the job of ridding the island of rats .
13 About 125 road miles from Athens , the village is tucked into one corner of a large bay , almost completely enclosed by gentle pine clad hills .
14 He shot her a suspicious glance , and continued his commentary : ‘ The molten metal is received into that holding furnace down there .
15 However , autonomous replication occurs in only 50-70% of the transformants , suggesting a defect in the recognition of the Tetrahymena telomeric template by the putative P. anserina telomerase so that only a fraction of entering DNA is stabilized into linear extrachromosomal molecules .
16 The immediacy of musical ‘ speech ’ is frozen into electric ‘ print ’ , producing an ‘ acoustic publication ’ .
17 The heli-skier is lifted into remote parts of mountain ranges which other skiers can not reach , in the Alps , Sweden , the Himalayas and in New Zealand , and left to ski across unknown terrain which makes black runs look like nursery slopes .
18 Experienced topers will leave promptly , before their merry glow is chilled into doom-laden sobriety .
19 The company is organised into two divisions — consumer and industrial .
20 This article is organised into four main sections .
21 The company is organised into four operating regions : —
22 The Stock Exchange Quotation Department is organised into various listing groups alphabetically according to the name of the listed ( target ) company .
23 The league , which is the premier club cricket competition in the county , has operated with one division since its inception in 1972 and is organised into 1st XI , 2nd XI and 3rd XI competitions .
24 In the M-form enterprise , in contrast , the company is organised into separate product divisions , each with responsibility for many of the administrative operations formerly performed by the head office and its sub-offices .
25 The civil service is organised into three groups of staff — the General Category , the Science Category and the Professional and Technology Category .
26 But if , by manipulation , some of the yellow cytoplasm is squeezed into adjacent cells they too will develop muscle , something they would never do normally .
27 The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg .
28 Also my teaching is squeezed into 4 days , which means that I have time to myself at the weekend , including Friday .
29 All manner of sexual detail is squeezed into these reports , anything from the previous sex life of a convicted rapist ( ‘ the savage between the sheets ’ ) to the newspapers ' reading of the sexual history of the raped woman ‘ Para case girl was ‘ sex maniac ’ ‘ .
30 Or better still find the source , the cassette player , and rip out the cassette and jump up and down upon it until it is smashed into little pieces .
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