Example sentences of "[verb] [been] turn into a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The house at Giverny has been turned into a museum , |
| 2 | Now the manor has been turned into a folk museum . |
| 3 | The gables are more pointed than normal , the mullioned and transomed windows more elongated , while the dripstone , such a familiar Cotswold feature , has been turned into a frill which still directs the rain away from the windows . |
| 4 | The Technology Products chip business has been turned into a profit centre from its previous status as a cost centre . |
| 5 | Just outside Wolfstein I found an attractive-looking Gasthof at the tiny settlement of Reckweilerhof which is no more really than two large farm steadings , one of which has been turned into a guesthouse . |
| 6 | Apparently , however , WABI has been turned into a product and packaged , and there is said to be some kind of cross-productisation afoot with parent company Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 7 | On the upper mezzanine floor , and close to the staff lift that serves both the back of the Queen 's bathroom and the King 's wardrobe , a spare room has been turned into a trunk room . |
| 8 | Bournemouth 's International Conference Centre has been turned into a fortress as the Conservatives begin arriving for their Party Conference . |
| 9 | At the top of the house , one of the remaining two bedrooms has been turned into a studio where Geoff spends many hours playing music . |
| 10 | It has been turned into a shrine to Niyogi 's memory . |
| 11 | The vicar is being taken to court by his own church leaders over the state of his rectory , where the garden has been turned into a farmyard . |
| 12 | When they moved to Althorp in 1975 on the death of their grandfather , the 7th Earl , Charles said goodbye to every room and Diana today still revisits her former home , even though it has been turned into a Cheshire Home holiday hotel for the disabled . |
| 13 | A converted farm building , donated by Mr and Mrs Tabor , has been turned into a study room filled with photographs and displays illustrating work and life on the farm . |
| 14 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 15 | My forest of trees could indeed have been turned into a forest of nerves , with each jagged branch poking into that guilty skull like the accusing fingers of God 's darker or more vengeful angels . |
| 16 | Here were a large dilapidated manor house and a church next door which had been turned into a barn . |
| 17 | It was obvious that one of the fortified monasteries characteristic of Bukovina had been turned into a terrorist camp . |
| 18 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 19 | The set-back of 1826 had been turned into a triumph . |
| 20 | One of the large bedrooms had been turned into a nursery and it seemed to hold every conceivable toy a child could have . |
| 21 | It was during the war when the convent had been turned into a shrine for Bruckner by a man called Glasmeier . |
| 22 | Their grandparents had made the lounge into a bedroom so that Grandad did n't have to do the stairs with his bad legs and a bedroom had been turned into a sitting room and furnished with a table , chairs and sideboard that her parents had acquired when they got married though they had no house to put it in . |
| 23 | A downstairs room , once his study , had been turned into a bedroom for the last few months , and his bed faced the french windows leading into the garden he loved so well . |
| 24 | The whole event commenced with a football match between artists and critics on a piece of wasteland that had been turned into a football pitch . |
| 25 | It is still lived in , though not any more by humans , because the castle and its grounds have been turned into a home , and a sort of theatre , for birds of prey : vultures , falcons , buzzards , eagles , which in the afternoons ( I 'm not sure why it has to be only after lunch ) are allowed to fly free and which you can pay to visit . |
| 26 | — Ten acres of open land in the middle of Aycliffe Industrial Estate , Newton Aycliffe , have been turned into a wildlife site after two years ' hard work . |
| 27 | They have called for the removal of dangerous waste dumped in the White and Barents Seas , which , according to the news agency Tass , " have been turned into a pool for radioactive waste " . |
| 28 | The 300 acres of farmland and garden he took over 13 years ago , have been turned into a monument to organic production . |
| 29 | One sole practitioner argued that ‘ private clients must take the risk of a business default by a solicitor as they must with any other business ’ ; whilst another commented that capping would be justified ‘ now that solicitors have been turned into a trade with the main considerations being commercial ’ . |
| 30 | Later on we took them to Woody Swinbank 's at Mickleton , but that 's been turned into a pub now , appropriately called the Blacksmith 's Arms . |