Example sentences of "turn it into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken Russell took the removal of restraint and stiff-upper-lip repression that American finance had encouraged and turned it into a distinctive aesthetic style . |
| 2 | Yes , it 's not , they 've turned it into a total university trained job erm , people have n't given award . |
| 3 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 4 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 5 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 6 | If Knightshayes had been a really fine Victorian garden , you 'd have had to keep it as it was , but we 've turned it into a twentieth-century garden and that 's what the Trust has taken . |
| 7 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 8 | At one point , towards the end of the seventeenth century , the church was possessed by Daniel Disney who turned it into a Presbyterian Meeting House but by 1812 it was back in the hands of the Church of England again . |
| 9 | One turned it into a front room and one going down , and two in the alley on the left hand side , one in the alley on the right hand side . |
| 10 | He never lost sight of the religious nature of his subject , and never turned it into a boring desert . |
| 11 | The relentlessly lumbering movie machine has taken a truly extreme , hallucinatory book about oppression and obedience , juiced it up with some patronising love interest and turned it into a standard ‘ women 's issues ’ film : sanitised , regulated and pointless . |
| 12 | But the heat and the darkness and the twisted magic had long since drained the heart from the land ; the dark sorcery had sucked out the goodness and turned it into a stunted , abandoned place . |
| 13 | They might have had one if Bill could have explained his idea because that 's exactly what Harry Nilsson later did with the song , turned it into a big ballad and scored a number one hit with it . |
| 14 | Instead the overwrought director turned it into a bitter battle which ends with the lover , played by Sydney Pollack , savagely forcing Lysette 's character into his car . |
| 15 | Deracinated urban youths have built upon this uncompromisingly physical attitude to games and turned it into a different , more aggressive , and organized subculture . |
| 16 | An eerie , green glow in the sky behind the tower turned it into a ghostly galleon on a leaden sea ; Claro itself , a crazy house , leaning this way and bulging that . |
| 17 | In VR6 form as tested , it is also a particularly expensive little coupe , virtually double the price of the old Honda CRX which pioneered then dominated a limited niche market until Honda turned it into a two-seater ugly duckling . |
| 18 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 19 | He turned it into a four-course meal , thus : |
| 20 | The dress proved such a hit that the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line . |
| 21 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |
| 22 | And then the bought the drill hall and turned it into the public hall and presented it to the island . |
| 23 | UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal . |
| 24 | McDonald outlines it thus : ‘ A : find the best artists you can ; B : keep them in a creative mood so that they make the best records they can , and C : maximise the sales of the records everywhere without turning it into a real form of drudgery for them . ’ |
| 25 | As a result , the nineteenth-century approaches had misconceived the nature of God 's Word itself , turning it into a spiritual ideal , a heroic example , or a set of ethical norms , and interpreted Jesus accordingly , instead of recognising in him the perennially contemporary event of the encounter of time with eternity , the intersection of the finite by the infinite , by which everything human and creaturely is contradicted in its self-enclosedness and opened up to the reality of God . |
| 26 | After a while , though , dismissing her memories , Ruth began to like it ; the sun was behind the mist , turning it into a glimmery silver haze ; and at least it was a different sort of weather . |
| 27 | Even the simplest VAT eats up 2–4% of its revenues in administrative costs ; the BTU tax may eat up as much as 10–20% , turning it into a full-employment programme for bureaucrats . |
| 28 | When this happens , some people respond by pouring paraffin over that fire , turning it into a blazing inferno ( i.e. panicking , hyperventilating , catastrophizing , avoiding , etc. ) , while others sensibly dampen down the blaze with a wet blanket ( i.e. relaxing , thinking positively , goal planning , problem solving , and self assertion ) . |
| 29 | He largely reshaped this family business , rescuing it from near bankruptcy in the 1860s , extending it into tinplate in Monmouthshire , carrying through several amalgamations , and turning it into a public company in 1902 . |
| 30 | The Tory party is often an amiable shambles , but the Maastricht process is turning it into a neurotic press gang . |