Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | REACTIVE chlorine compounds are known to cause ozone depletion in the Antarctic stratosphere , but they can be bound into an inactive form through reactions with nitrogen dioxide . |
| 2 | At 100 metres ( 325 feet ) , a dolphin 's lungs are probably completely collapsed — all the air has been forced into the thick-walled windpipe and nasal passages , from where no nitrogen can be absorbed into the blood . |
| 3 | Alternatively , imbalance of forces can be absorbed into the body , as strain or deformation , until the elastic and plastic limits are reached and the body disintegrates . |
| 4 | ‘ I use a rough canvas for my oils so that many layers of paint can be absorbed into the grain . |
| 5 | However , detailed observations of a variety of teachers using the same material ( see , for example , reference 2 ) immediately reveals the wide range of teaching styles that are used and the apparent ease with which almost any material can be absorbed into any style . |
| 6 | The rate at which people can be absorbed into the public social service sector , or are willing and able to enter it , does not depend on the social planners alone , and there is much scope for improvement in our whole approach to manpower and womanpower problems . |
| 7 | The study also reveals that heavy metals , in particular cadmium and zinc , present in the sludge , are taken up by plants and can be absorbed into the food chain far more easily than previously thought . |
| 8 | It wo n't it is accepted that the new settlement new settlement can be assimilated into the landscape . |
| 9 | Add the flour gradually , beating all the time , until the dough is still soft and sticky but can be gathered into a ball . |
| 10 | He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence . |
| 11 | Ladder attenuators incorporating Π sections turn out to be more economical in components than those formed from T sections because adjacent pairs of shunt resistors can be merged into single resistors . |
| 12 | Other people can be motivated into activity year-in-year-out just to acquire more and more money . |
| 13 | For example , customer enquiries and correspondence can be scanned into the computer system on receipt , or entered by the telephone operator . |
| 14 | For example , a prediction can be tied into a later encounter in the Castle , or to an encounter on the way back to the adventurers ' base . |
| 15 | In addition , many of them can be tied into Personal Construct Theory in a way that allows its associated Repertory Grid Technique to be used both as an investigatory tool and as a means whereby the perception of art might be enhanced . |
| 16 | In psycholinguistics , an item 's meaning , it is said , can be analysed into a number of semantic markers — components or features also found in the meanings of other items , eg the -ly of an adverb such as clearly — and a distinguisher , which is the residue of meaning after the markers have been deducted ( clear ) . |
| 17 | This will be called compound , and its main characteristic is that it can be analysed into two words , both of which can exist independently as English words . |
| 18 | Mercedes SL can be provoked into oversteer if you cut the power in a bend ( above — but , with ASR traction control as fitted to test car , all that 's really on offer is artificially strong understeer ( right ) . |
| 19 | The life positions can be generalized into ‘ I 'm OK ’ or ‘ I 'm not OK ’ , and ‘ You 're OK ’ or ‘ You 're not OK ’ . |
| 20 | For the potentially more dynamic beginner the choice of board can be expanded into the realms of the long ‘ funboard ’ . |
| 21 | But because of the TCP/IP protocol it can be customised into this environment . |
| 22 | Most photographic shops sell binocular mounts which can be screwed into the top of a camera tripod . |
| 23 | Earlier we saw that the images of the mind can be collected into schemata . |
| 24 | Now , of course it is true that thoughts can be collected into bundles , so that one bundle is my thoughts , another is your thoughts , and a third is the thoughts of Mr Jones . |
| 25 | When an immediate response is not required , the transactions can be collected into batches , sorted into a key sequence that matches the appropriate master file , and processed sequentially . |
| 26 | Instead our aim is to show how , through joint literary and psychological analysis , new insights can be achieved into the artistic and personal qualities of the authors in question . |
| 27 | At present houses throughout Britain are being valued so they can be placed into one of eight value brackets . |
| 28 | If the great social security businesses can be turned into successful , free-standing executive agencies , the problem will have been cracked — the Next Steps reforms will have worked where so many attempts at change faltered . |
| 29 | Dr Sandage has spent much of his life as the custodian of Hubble 's legacy , trying to show how that relative redness can be turned into an absolute distance . |
| 30 | By cutting microscopic , concentric grooves , clear film can be turned into thin lightweight lenses , called kinoforms . |