Example sentences of "been [vb pp] into [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And when eventually the colobus had been ripped into pieces , and the forest went quiet , he pointed out the way the chimps shared their spoils with their nearest relatives .
2 From everything being simple and light-hearted , she had been plunged into shoals of deception , way out of her depth .
3 But the guerrilla bands have been broken into fragments by the fighting .
4 Some would have been formed into bomb-ketches and armed with mortars and howitzers .
5 Open Access , previously a massive single integrated package has recently been stripped into modules along the same lines .
6 Once foci have been grouped into facets , they must be ordered .
7 Light filtered through dimly from various shafts and , here and there , bounced off big mirrors that had been mortared into angles of the passage .
8 Erm that again had been rolled into balls and then he 'd have erm about a dozen sticks which which held these balls and stuck them in then after he 'd he 'd erm er thatched one erm length , one row , he 'd pull the string over and attach it to the the thick s er rope that was er going over the stack .
9 These ideas have been built into curricula and materials .
10 Due to the process of evolution and survival of the fittest , a good memory and a strong fear for physical danger has been built into horses and reinforced for at least fifty million years .
11 Early last year the Ministry of Defence announced new measures to discourage bullying after young recruits revealed that they had been pushed into rivers , pelted with stones , and gassed with CS gas .
12 Eventually , after many cycles , the concentration of oligonucleotide primers falls because they have all been incorporated into products of the reaction .
13 Margaret 's house was the same as Maura 's except it had been made into flats .
14 That 's all been altered , i they 've all been made into shops and spoilt the you know , the and there used to be old 's , the shoe shop and Mr. 's watch shop and Mrs 's pastry shop .
15 When they bought it , the upstairs had been made into bedsits .
16 Interesting , too , that many of his books have been made into films , although Greene never liked the films . ’
17 Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again .
18 A remarkable hydraulic lift still plies the cliff face between the high promenade and the pier , and there are some imposing villas , but the grandest of grand hotels has been turned into flats .
19 He could see from the number of bells beside each door that they 'd nearly all been turned into flats now , or dentists ' surgeries , and some were in urgent need of renovation , but they still retained some of their former grandeur , or was it pretension ?
20 That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats .
21 The ‘ Celtic belt ’ was heavily forested in those days , as was Italy in pre-Roman times , and two large , rococo-ceilinged halls in the Palazzo Grassi have been turned into forests .
22 So as to be like his fellows who had been turned into slaves , he slaved tirelessly himself .
23 The result , says André Sacau of Orcofi , a French holding company with stakes in a range of luxury-goods makers , is that ‘ buyers of luxury brands have been turned into bargain-hunters . ’
24 With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools .
25 Since Renaissance times , clear glass has been fashioned into prisms , mirrors and lenses that diffract and focus visible light .
26 Mr Hill : Yes , now , during the war most men between 19 and 38 got called up and they went into the army , navy , airforce and fire-brigade or they had been drafted into factories to make tanks , aeroplanes and munitions so some things , areas , like farming were very short of labour .
27 These fan deposits extend into the mountain valleys and have been dissected into terraces by occasional floods emerging from those valleys .
28 Once coins have been classified into groups , the next stage is to determine the exact date of a coin 's manufacture or the precise location of its mint .
29 According to the report , " the earlier expectations of a recovery in world economic activity , and consequently for the LDCs ' , have since been transformed into forecasts of further and significant decline " .
30 He speculated that the gases may have been injected into microcracks in the Martian rocks during an impact event , and that samples of these rocks were subsequently orbited to Earth .
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