Example sentences of "the [adj] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A French proposal to turn the Antarctic into a whale sanctuary failed to win the necessary three-quarters majority for adoption , being supported by 19 countries and opposed by eight , but the proposal will be discussed again at next year 's meeting after a working group has met to discuss the boundaries of the sanctuary and other details . |
| 2 | HOSPICE VISITOR : but is our Princess turning a sanctuary for the dying into a sanctuary for DI ? |
| 3 | A briefing by spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry on the Algerian President 's visit to Moscow repeated Gorbachev 's proposals ‘ aimed at turning the Mediterranean into a zone of stable peace and cooperation ’ but failed to elaborate them . |
| 4 | Or turn the basic into a marinara sauce with a tin of clams , mussels or tuna . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe I put the above into a memo addressed to Donald Wilson whom I had appointed as my Head of Serials . |
| 6 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 7 | Keening by the side of the corpse , the professional nacarena still howled her tale of the deceased , spinning it out from scraps of information the family had told her , and then delivering it bound and knotted into a customary warp of praise and lamentation with the reassuring catch-phrases that were always used , to level the pleasant and the unpleasant , the cherished and the despised into a democracy of death , making each death absolutely regrettable , knitting up into the web of the dirge the separate individuals of the community . |
| 8 | Originally a large Victorian house set in its own extensive grounds , it was converted in the 1960s into a hall of residence by the addition of a three-storey extension . |
| 9 | Flatliners ' little hallucinatory moral dramas of American atonement ( and even perhaps the other ghost movies ) , have their roots in a different gimmick film Field Of Dreams , which turned the social and political divisions of the Sixties into a family affair which could be sorted by Kevin Costner throwing a baseball around with his ghost dad . |