Example sentences of "turned into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commonwealth Secretary-General , Chief Emeka Anyaoku , was quoted on April 6 as saying that the South African government 's promises would have to be turned into concrete action before economic sanctions against South Africa could be lifted . |
| 2 | Of infinite complexity , it ingested gobbets of gobbledegook and disgorged segments of language which could be turned into coherent German . |
| 3 | Writing in the American magazine Astronautics and Aeronautics , Gretton-Watson suggests that the huge volume of natural gas from the Gulf states ' oil fields could be turned into liquid hydrogen , an important fuel in high energy rockets . |
| 4 | The liquor is left to cool and is eventually turned into harmless glass blocks . |
| 5 | Horses for sale were tethered at the sides of them and tack , leather and ironwork were displayed on the tail-gates which were turned into makeshift stalls . |
| 6 | Every acre of sunflowers produces about half a ton of oil which will be turned into low fat margarine . |
| 7 | Second-hand shop discoveries or tatty old faithfuls can be turned into prized possessions with a little love and attention . |
| 8 | This heat has to be turned into mechanical energy , currently always by a steam turbine and the mechanical energy in a rotating shaft is then translated by a generator into electricity . |
| 9 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 10 | The most demanding would be one I have previously raised : namely , that though the successful encounter with a poem may result in a unique aesthetic experience , academic practice demands that it be turned into non-aesthetic discourse . |
| 11 | At least The Mission have n't turned into redundant dinosaurs like those bastards The Cult , although ‘ Hands Across The Ocean ’ is fairly ordinary goff fare with only Hussey 's clear cut vocals standing out of the mix . |
| 12 | At least The Mission have n't turned into redundant dinosaurs like those bastards The Cult , although ‘ Hands Across The Ocean ’ is fairly ordinary goff fare with only Hussey 's clear cut vocals standing out of the mix . |
| 13 | Arts-based schools turned into technical colleges . |
| 14 | Acid rain forms when airborne sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides go through a series of complex atmospheric reactions and are turned into weak sulphuric and nitric acids contained in rain drops . |
| 15 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 16 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 17 | Summer had turned into typical Hebridean winter by this time and we were greeted by high winds and driving rain as the ferry berthed . |
| 18 | The party 's ageing faction leaders , says Mr Segni , have turned into pure power brokers . |
| 19 | Before human beings ( or any other animal ) can make use of the energy from the Sun , that energy has first to be turned into chemical energy ( that is , into complex organic molecules ) by photosynthesis . |
| 20 | Round about here , the network of caves under the ochreous rocks has been turned into vast champignonnières , and at the modest little Restaurant David ( no relation ) you can eat the local cultivated mushrooms cooked à la crème or à la provençale with , naturally , olive oil , parsley and garlic . |
| 21 | Moreover the effect of the statute , in preventing the separation between legal and equitable estates in the cases to which it applied , was nullified in the latter half of the seventeenth century by the decision of the Chancery to protect trusts declared upon the uses which the statute had turned into legal estates . |
| 22 | When the use in favour of C or D arose , C or D's uses were turned into legal estates by the Statute of Uses . |
| 23 | We have seen how a couple of strands of consonant voices can be turned into mild or harsh dissonance , or vice versa — how dissonant voices can be turned towards consonance . |
| 24 | Three cloakroom areas were turned into small classrooms to release the library from timetabling for subject lessons , a scheme was devised for staff supervision of the library at all times , and a system of parent volunteers was instituted to help the library assistant . |
| 25 | Primal Scream 's petty pilfering of dance rhythms turned into wholesale hijacking when they gave club deejay Andy Weatherall a cast-off riff to play with and he returned with the seductive bump and grind of ‘ Loaded ’ . |
| 26 | I made during my year a number of lasting friendships , some of which have actually turned into professional assistance in different parts of the country , and the fact that people genuinely enjoy meeting each other is shown by the annual reunions which take place , entirely at the personal expense of the individuals , which demonstrate the bond of friendship which our Institute can bring about . |
| 27 | Nor , in an atmosphere of reluctance , can the initiator be confident that a participator 's initial dependence on other people 's ideas and energy will in due course be turned into well-informed independence . |
| 28 | The Marketing Mix is concerned with the realities and practicalities of how these marketing objectives may be turned into specific marketing plans and activities . |
| 29 | If the great social security businesses can be turned into successful , free-standing executive agencies , the problem will have been cracked — the Next Steps reforms will have worked where so many attempts at change faltered . |
| 30 | When Palestine was turned into Syrian territory in 198 , it was soon involved in the process of decomposition of the Hellenistic system under Roman pressure . |