Example sentences of "be converted [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 These allow a store of chemical energy to be converted to electrical energy as required .
32 Once the hydrogen is produced it can be converted to other fuel forms such as methanol .
33 In Cornwall , some of the most intractable of wastes can be used for agriculture , for ornamental gardens and playing fields , or be converted to semi-natural habitat , as woodland or heath .
34 Depends how much ma if you , maybe new P C these days , it would normally have it already on it four thousand K of memory , and three thousand left could be converted to expanded memory , but it 's not worth it only use five hundred K of it probably .
35 Now the United States is on the verge of bombing Iraq on the pretext that Iraq refuses to destroy its ‘ weapons of mass destruction ’ — when , in fact , Iraq has asked that some of its military industry be converted to civilian production laid waste by allied bombing .
36 This is a means whereby analogue signals like guitar , vocals etc. can be converted to digital and inputted to computer storage , to be sequenced and looped or whatever digital hocus pocus takes your fancy .
37 Install one of these and you can send computer data over the line without a modem ; voice traffic will have to be converted to digital form by special phone or exchange equipment .
38 Furthermore , the Papal instruction to missionaries visiting Britain was that pagan shrines should be converted to Christian use rather than destroyed .
39 It is responsible for around 79 per cent of deforestation , 72 per cent of arable land expansion , and 69 per cent of growth in livestock numbers … some 4.5 million square kilometres of additional wildlife habitat will have to be converted to human uses — equivalent to four-fifths of the total area of nature reserves in the world in 1990 . ’
40 It applies to all those thoughts of the human mind which are real enough to the thinker , but which can not be converted to physical things and detected by the five senses of sight , hearing , touch , taste and smell .
41 When batches are large , overall throughput will be much improved if any runs can be converted to batched and sorted operations .
42 Test scores can be converted to standardised scores ( mean= 100 ; standard deviation= 15 ) to age equivalents or to percentile ranks .
43 The black-and-white images can be converted to false colour by computer , which looks much prettier , and is easier to interpret by eye , although it does n't really give more information .
44 I would like to know if the machine can be converted to full time four wheel drive , There are no real advantages to permanent four wheel drive but , if you wish to , use the transfer box from a 1948–50 Series One .
45 If you hold a valid DLCO provisional licence it will normally be converted to full entitlement free of charge when you pass the test .
46 In many of the Sussex levels pumped drainage schemes are being installed to give greater control over the water levels so that the water table can be gradually lowered , permitting the permanent pasture to be improved by ploughing and re-seeding and allowing a longer grazing season ; some will no doubt be converted to arable .
47 Both Sony and the Koei Group gave various reasons for the split , Sony that its mission of developing the desk-top publishing market on workstations had been accomplished , while the Koei Group indicated that Sony 's NEWS was too narrow a system for the jointly developed software , which will now be converted for other workstations and personal computers , including Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems and Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh .
48 Instead China got an ‘ object ’ code which could not be converted for military tasks .
49 Eight vehicles will be converted from new or surplus rolling stock for use in the fleet and two new vehicles will be built from scratch .
50 Of the remaining six vehicles , four will be converted from surplus Inter-City catering vehicles and used to provide the principal dining saloon and accommodation for the Royal Household and other staff .
51 A head who already had eleven years ' experience moved to a post in which he had to confront two one-time grammar schools which had been converted into comprehensive single-sex comprehensive high schools .
52 But in the case of companies these practices have been converted into legal regulations because this has been thought necessary to protect those interested in the company and those having dealings with it .
53 The original stalls have all been converted into loose boxes with a small plaque beside each one denoting the occupant 's name , breed , height , age , colour and how it was purchases .
54 Although no details of the fraudulent operations were provided , they were understood to have involved the diversion of public and private funds , which had been converted into foreign exchange for approved imports , into bank accounts abroad .
55 This specimen lies on a slab of mudstone , the specimen itself having been converted into coal-like material — that is , into carbon .
56 The outbuildings , once stables and tack rooms , have been converted into superior self-catering cottages with a meal service from the main house If required .
57 The grammar tags have been converted into numerical codes ( 1 … 60 ) for computational simplicity .
58 It was 1968 and the Crystal Palace track had been converted to Tartan in readiness for the Mexico City Olympic Games which were to be held on synthetic surfacing for the first time .
59 New data are added as they are acquired , as is information from old paper records when it has been converted to digital form .
60 The data were originally analogue and have been converted to digital form using 10 nT intercepts along the flight lines .
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