Example sentences of "turned into a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which , for some reason , then turned into a laugh . |
| 2 | The Body & Face Place franchise operation , for instance , has turned into a crematorium for the business ambitions of many franchisees . |
| 3 | As late as 1866 a hotel at Martinsburg , West Virginia , was turned into a station . |
| 4 | It was obvious that one of the fortified monasteries characteristic of Bukovina had been turned into a terrorist camp . |
| 5 | Stalking stags is turned into a sport as an economic necessity as much as anything else . |
| 6 | The Temple of Yahwe was turned into a temple of Zeus Olympios , the inhabitants of Jerusalem were called Antiochenes and the mysterious Acra , the fortress , was occupied by a Syrian garrison : traditional Jewish practices , such as circumcision and the observance of the Sabbath , were prohibited . |
| 7 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 8 | The distant hills were burnt to the ashen colour of the landscape Martini 's horseman rode through , each crowned by its sweltering farmhouse , now turned into a holiday home . |
| 9 | She was represented as a nice girl temporarily turned into a witch by strange creatures ( including , in Tanning 's designs , men described as Owl Heads and Bald Heads ) who interrupt a rendezvous with her lover in a mysterious castle . |
| 10 | In a sense the normal child was turned into a problem by the process of evacuation . |
| 11 | But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ . |
| 12 | Fortune duly gave way to forfeit ; the cars were sold , the duck marsh was turned into a bird sanctuary and the only tigers left in Bharatpur are stuffed . |
| 13 | If the god was feeling generous towards the victim , he would instead be turned into a fruit bat , to serve Camazotz and his court . |
| 14 | ‘ Turned into a saint he has , they 're saying ! ’ |
| 15 | He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) . |
| 16 | Here were a large dilapidated manor house and a church next door which had been turned into a barn . |
| 17 | ‘ That way , my young friend wo n't be turned into a zombi , and neither will anyone else for the moment . ’ |
| 18 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 19 | Looking for peace and solitude , he bought a cottage in a small Bedfordshire village and had a garage turned into a bungalow for his beloved grandmother . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought I was famed for not having an aversion to the media , but I am sure every virtue can be turned into a vice . ’ |
| 21 | The suggestion is not that Britain be turned into a glasshouse containing a mass of Disneylands and Mafia-run casinos ; merely that we take a serious and professional look at extending our all-year capacity to give people what they want . |
| 22 | The set-back of 1826 had been turned into a triumph . |
| 23 | When what is arguably the most beautiful and tranquil corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park got planning permission to be turned into a golf course it was Mike Harding 's protests that summoned the ombudsman . |
| 24 | THE long-overdue reform of Britain 's national health service ( NHS ) started on April 1st and quickly turned into a shouting-match . |
| 25 | Inanna 's request for water was denied and her sister , inflamed with jealousy , had her turned into a corpse and hung on a stake . |
| 26 | Now the manor has been turned into a folk museum . |
| 27 | The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . |
| 28 | It 's turned into a surprise best seller , with the European Commission and Tory Party headquarters among those wanting a copy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |