Example sentences of "[conj] convert they into " in BNC.

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1 Here they make the land habitable , banish evil spirits ( or convert them into lesser deities , the Bāhan ) and care for the people .
2 This problem is dealt with by a muscle in the middle ear attached to one of the trio of tiny bones that transmits the vibrations of the ear-drum to the tubular organ in the skull that converts them into nervous stimuli .
3 His main hobby is to take derelict old buildings and convert them into habitable homes that are monuments to the Conran design credo .
4 They are able to take in chemicals and convert them into usable energy and to synthesize all the components of the cell during growth that eventually leads to cell multiplication .
5 Musicians have been waiting impatiently for an application to read printed musical scores and convert them into MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface files for output on keyboards and synthesisers .
6 ‘ The grubbing up of Hedge Rows is become general , and the Growth of Timber in them is therefore destroyed , owing to the great price given for Corn since the Bounty took place for exporting Corn and Beer , which gives every Farmer encouragement to grub Hedge Rows up , and convert them into Corn Land ’ .
7 In some instances local authorities have approached housing associations suggesting that the problem might be remedied if an association were to buy the properties and convert them into assured tenancies or into shared ownership .
8 He mentioned some plan they had of buying old houses and converting them into flats for sale .
9 Bacteria and fungi go to work breaking down the dead organisms ' protein into amino acids and converting them into ammonia , a useful source of nutrition .
10 He thought again of the bank account in Tel Aviv , manipulating figures in his head and converting them into possessions and acquisitions .
11 a special kind of scanner which provides a means of reading printed characters on documents and converting them into digital codes that can be read into a computer as actual text rather than just a picture .
12 He brought the dollars back to Jamaica and converted them into Jamaican dollars at the black market rate .
13 But after a while the Yugoslav government took them over , and converted them into agreements to supply oil .
14 Nutrition is the process by which the body acquires all the foodstuffs it needs to keep it in good working order and converts them into energy , new body tissue and those substances necessary to keep all the body processes ( metabolism ) going .
15 The lecithin cholesterol acyl transferase ( LCAT ) system is active in this process and generates cholesterol esters in the HDL and converts them into a spherical shape .
16 After it is released from the cell , interferon becomes attached to neighbouring cells and converts them into an ‘ anti-viral state ’ in which the multiplication of viruses is strongly inhibited .
17 A digital television immediately decodes the incoming sound and picture signals and converts them into an 8-bit digital code .
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