Example sentences of "transform them into " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 2 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 3 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 4 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |
| 5 | Ohtake has recently been experimenting with objets trouvés , transforming them into architectural forms ; these are not , however , completely divorced from the spirit of the assemblages , collages , ink drawings and graffiti typical of his earlier work . |
| 6 | Recent works isolate and enlarge single objects such as a spoon , a fingernail , and the bubble from a carpenter 's level , transforming them into meditations on space , form and texture . |
| 7 | The algorithm and the file keys have to be analysed , which can be done either by writing an analysis program and inputting the keys , transforming them into addresses and recording the numbers of synonyms , or by using a standard analysis program . |
| 8 | Bravely brushing aside any question of taste , Mementos invites customers to send in their champagne corks for dipping in silver or gold , ‘ transforming them into wonderful mementos of happy occasions ’ . |
| 9 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 10 | EIiot 's intense sympathy with the fishermen of the Massachusetts coast transforms them into figures of endurance , secular saints , whose course is one of earthly failure which the toughest faith transforms into gain . |
| 11 | Aptly named Swing Shift , John Frieda takes looks of the past and transforms them into the sleek , set styles of today — with a little from modern technology of course ! |
| 12 | Thus , these subcultures respectively enable corporate officials and lower-class adolescent males to commit crimes without too many pangs of conscience ; through their sanitizing prism , each sub-culture softens criminal acts so that they assume the appearance of ‘ not really ’ being against the law , or it transforms them into acts required by a morality higher than that enshrined in a parochial criminal law . |
| 13 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 14 | For instance , when Odysseus and his men landed on her island , she transformed them into pigs , an exploit referred to by Milton in Comus thus : |
| 15 | Keoi look like ordinary human individuals — men and women — and in fact they were this at some time , but they performed a forbidden act which transformed them into keoi . |
| 16 | The Mayan peasants worked the plantations as debt slaves , until Mexico 's revolution transformed them into collective farmers . |
| 17 | These were then debated by a working party of representatives from each faculty , who transformed them into ‘ a palatable form for staff to use ’ . |
| 18 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 19 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 20 | The art is to take everyday ingredients and transform them into something magical |
| 21 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 22 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 23 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 24 | While it is often convenient to deal with equations such as ( 2 ) in the way indicated , it is also often useful to transform them into first-order equations . |
| 25 | The bland , slightly earthy flavour of lentils needs plenty of fresh spices , herbs and seasoning to transform them into tasty soups or spicy Indian dhals . |