Example sentences of "turned into a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Falklands veteran vessel , HMS Plymouth , permanently berthed at Wallasey docks , is to be turned into a floating studio theatre especially for the production . |
| 2 | A bus has been turned into a mobile information centre , giving details of the times of services and other facilities provided . |
| 3 | She was brutally assaulted by her brother 's friends , as they had turned into a frenzied mob . |
| 4 | The statute enacted that where A was seised ( i.e. possessed ) of a freehold interest in land , to the passive use that he allow B to enjoy the land , B 's equitable interest should be turned into a legal interest . |
| 5 | A DOCTOR has hit back at claims a national medical conference will be turned into a political issue . |
| 6 | Some have intimated that these contacts , while not illegal , raise suspicions that the superfund 's huge cache for money may have turned into a political slush-fund , spread around to fertilise the candidates of loyal Republicans . |
| 7 | Her literary concern about the doleful consequences of the French Revolution was turned into a political neurosis by the contemporary situation in 1918 . |
| 8 | I intended this to be a letter , but I see that it has turned into a political commentary . |
| 9 | Although Aquino gave assurances that the Kabisig would not be turned into a political party , the leadership of the LDP treated the new movement with great suspicion , believing that it represented an independent vehicle which could be used by Aquino to run her own favoured candidates in the 1992 elections . |
| 10 | The fact that Mosley was turned into a reforming politician by the First World War highlighted his dilemma . |
| 11 | These proposals were subsequently turned into a commissioned proposal for a directive . |
| 12 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 13 | If I 'm very lucky , she thought , I might just avoid being turned into a long smear of guts and blood . |
| 14 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |
| 15 | Disaster in the provinces was then turned into a public-relations triumph by a dramatic swing in the Tories ' favour in their flagship London councils , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 16 | At each stage there is an apparent confrontation which is quickly turned into a constructive step . |
| 17 | Before any computer system can generate or understand spoken words the complex waveforms that make up speech must be turned into a digital form that the computer can cope with . |
| 18 | It perpetuates the loneliness of the single mother , since both she and a male friend will be cautions of continuing a relationship that can be turned into a financial arrangement on the whim of a civil servant . |
| 19 | It had been turned into a temporary hospital . |
| 20 | On December 5th American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT&T ) bid $6.1 billion for NCR , America 's sixth-largest computer maker , after merger talks had turned into a shouting match . |
| 21 | By way of variation , though , she sang a simple setting of a poignant old Irish poem , which began in a lovely duet between her and Kellock , with drummer John Rae on bodhran , but eventually turned into a full-steam work out for the trio , which was completed by bass player Andy Mitchell . |
| 22 | And with a little extra trouble it can be turned into a splendid party dish — not for a grand formal party to be sure , or even a buffet party , but the sort of meal for intimate friends when you can put all the food on a huge scrubbed kitchen table and everyone sits round and helps themselves . |
| 23 | The van jerked forward but he managed to keep the engine from stalling and within seconds they had turned into a sharp bend and the grotesque crater was no longer visible in the rear view mirror . |
| 24 | The Louvre 's spokeswoman Sylvie Poujade has recently commented that everyone at the Louvre is sick and tired of the affair , which has turned into a living nightmare . |
| 25 | Forster was laying where they had left him , except the raw area of his face had turned into a slimy mess . |
| 26 | The Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force , meanwhile , will be turned into a civilian government department so it can continue operations , primarily air-sea rescue , after the handover . |
| 27 | The Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force , meanwhile , will be turned into a civilian government department so it can continue operations , primarily air-sea rescue , after the handover . |
| 28 | A PLANE was turned into a makeshift surgery when a doctor was forced back to work early on a flight home from the sun . |
| 29 | Hanging baskets with bright geraniums decorated the higher balconies and the courtyard had been turned into a spectacular garden , tubs of potted plants adorning the old paving . |
| 30 | In one back garden , a grass bank has been turned into a spectacular terrace . |