Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once an imposing villa , the Roma has been converted into a charming little hotel . |
| 2 | The Eastern Bloc has been transformed into a gigantic Enterprise Zone for western capitalists eager to reap the benefits of suppressed consumerism . |
| 3 | Now the estate is in the hands of Dr Douglas Wise and Coldingham Loch has been developed into a very attractive fishery . |
| 4 | The example of Theravada Buddhism is the most important because it has explicitly taught that there is no Creator God , yet Buddha has been turned into a father-like figure in popular devotion against the best intentions of the monks . |
| 5 | The USSR , however , mindful of the fact that Cuba had been made into a prominent campaign issue by both contenders for the US presidency , paid no heed to the wave of Cuban nationalisations of US property during August-October 1960 . |
| 6 | In less than a week the impeccable Rochester had been transformed into a kind of boarding-house . |
| 7 | In Glagow , the former Wylie and Lochhead Cabinet Works on Kent Road has been converted into a block of 196 flats for sale and its sumptuous Grade A listed stone-clad main elevation has been carefully restored . |
| 8 | It was obvious that one of the fortified monasteries characteristic of Bukovina had been turned into a terrorist camp . |
| 9 | She thought of the inevitable disdain with which her friend would react to the news that Constance had been seduced into a reckless marriage with a virtual stranger . |
| 10 | Katya had been moved into a small room near the kitchens , which she shared with Esmereldi , and she was told to cook for the soldiers . |
| 11 | Richard , of Cheltenham , Glos , said : ‘ Jackie was extremely distressed because Vernon had been thrown into a cell with 100 other prisoners . ’ |
| 12 | The conflict between the South Yorkshire police and the area NUM had been transformed into a confrontation between the state and the ‘ enemy within ’ . |
| 13 | Indeed by the time a modern 486 machine or an SE or LC Macintosh had been linked into a network the distinction was almost meaningless . |
| 14 | Evidence from satellite photos , refugees and dissident groups reveals that almost the entire flow of the Euphrates has been diverted into a 560-kilometre drainage canal , known as the Third River , recently connected to the sea . |
| 15 | At the mention of the name Disraeli , Mark had been transported into a world of his own . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The house at Giverny has been turned into a museum , |
| 18 | Previously Manupur had been divided into a number of well-defined hereditary and hierarchically ordered groups or castes whose jobs , social status and economic relationships ( i.e. the share they got of their own and each other 's profits ) were pre-determined by tradition . |
| 19 | From an early age White had been moulded into a new kind of professional chemist , combining the skills of the alchemist , the apothecary , and the ‘ philosophical ’ experimenter . |
| 20 | But I thought John had been put into a job that in fact he was born to and getting his teeth into |