Example sentences of "translate into " in BNC.

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1 This last point does n't translate into ideal accuracy and agility , however , for apart from its detached feel it suffers a slow-motion response .
2 The spring entertainment of looking round the developers ' show houses might even translate into more sales — the combination of better weather and a better economic climate is a formidable friend for the salesman .
3 As a result , a small increase in local spending will translate into a big rise in council tax .
4 On the one hand it expressed its unease , recalling the need for a comprehensive solution which ‘ must translate into fact the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland ’ , but on the other hand certain members of the Community — Britain , Italy , the Netherlands and France — agreed to help implement the treaty militarily .
5 It is hard to know how all these developments will translate into profits for T&L .
6 The realisation of community-led and private sector housing schemes , the improvement of the local environment , amenities and infrastructure and an emerging demand for new housing in the area will translate into increasing private developer interest and higher land prices .
7 After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions .
8 They believe that the Treasury-held view that a 12% devaluation will translate into 4% extra inflation over two years and 12% extra inflation ( the full impact of the trade-weighted devaluation to date ) over four years is , given the present economic background , highly exaggerated .
9 For instance , ‘ judgemental about people ’ can translate into ‘ highly discriminating ’ .
10 They may have a strong urge to provide care which they can not translate into reality , and they may be acutely uneasy as a result .
11 Perhaps it 's only appropriate that the ultimate colonialist rip-off should translate into the cynical money-grabbing myth making of Christopher Columbus : The Discovery .
12 ‘ I had problems listening to ‘ Eva Luna ’ , ’ Margaret continues , ‘ I do n't know if those problems will translate into the average record buyer 's problems with it . ’
13 It may be impossible for the apes to master a code that we would translate into our own terms .
14 But she does not discuss how knowledge of these individual processes can translate into social action , nor , more fundamentally , how the unconscious can be made conscious .
15 Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said .
16 This does not translate into earnings per share , however , which rose 11.3% to 17.7 pence .
17 The mayor 's office reckons that the $100m of private investment collected by Mr Ueberroth and his colleagues should translate into 5,000 new inner-city jobs — an unprecedented achievement not only for Los Angeles , but for blighted neighbourhoods anywhere .
18 It is believed this order will translate into an entry-level Tsumani box that breaks not only the $5,000 barrier but the $4,000 barrier as well .
19 Having assured itself of that source , however , does n't translate into a positive factor — merely a neutral one .
20 Interestingly , this did n't translate into a great database benchmark in the What Personal Computer Power Tests , although it still returned an overall score of around 14,500 .
21 President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas .
22 There is a good deal of rhetoric in this field , and as regards higher education institutions , the increased ( self- ) interest in mature students has been prompted partly by the decline in the 18-year-old age-group by about one-third between 1982 and 1995 ; although for various reasons that decline does not simply translate into a comparable decline in intake ( Fulton 1981 ) .
23 Even if the latter is true , it does not automatically translate into increases in higher level educational streams ; in some countries the main growth at the 16–19 stage has been not in the pre-academic general streams , but in the intermediate ‘ technical ’ ones ( Squires 1989a ) .
24 They are known in the Toraja language as " Most Holy Penis " and " Most Sacred Vagina " — though they would more accurately translate into a lighter vernacular .
25 Consider , for instance , the evoked meaning of an expression such as all over the place ( paragraph 1 ) , or the impact of an unusual collocation such as lives in a rage ( paragraph 4 ) ; how well do these expressions translate into your target language ?
26 In the case of mortgage default , for example , there are now nearly 60,000 mortgages more than 12 months in arrears , and some part of these arrears will inevitably translate into additional repossessions .
27 The administration demonstrated the same speed and foresight in recognising that those who control the monopoly of the means of destruction can translate into the monopoly of gain .
28 Memory , the dynamic of past consciousness , can translate into resistance in order to shape a new time to come .
29 Proportional representation in Parliament might translate into disproportionate power in government in a way that would make the established first-past-the-post inequalities look rather more fair than is often seen to be the case .
30 And this poverty needs correcting or greening will translate into more domination .
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