Example sentences of "turn into a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious that one of the fortified monasteries characteristic of Bukovina had been turned into a terrorist camp . |
| 2 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 3 | But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Empire in Middlesbrough was turned into a bingo hall ; the Imperial in Darlington was turned into an office and restaurant complex . |
| 8 | The Technology Products chip business has been turned into a profit centre from its previous status as a cost centre . |
| 9 | Recriminations are unavoidable , but try to keep their volume down and turn negative complaints into positive suggestions ( 'You never help with the washing-up' can be turned into a helping rota or rewards ) . |
| 10 | But I ca n't go having my place turned into a fever ward . |
| 11 | More soon of this exciting saga , which is due to be turned into a TV epic or will be if we can fix up a deal with anyone . |
| 12 | No longer are these words turned into a metal block , and no longer does the creation of that block require the same sophisticated skills as those built up over many years by typesetters . |
| 13 | ‘ The school 's multi-purpose hall was turned into a crêpe paper circus tent for the night . |
| 14 | The value of the different levels arising from each of the samplings are turned into a bit code . |
| 15 | The remains of hundreds of woolly mammoths from the Ice Agehave been found on a site which was to be turned into a rubbish dump . |
| 16 | Their grandparents had made the lounge into a bedroom so that Grandad did n't have to do the stairs with his bad legs and a bedroom had been turned into a sitting room and furnished with a table , chairs and sideboard that her parents had acquired when they got married though they had no house to put it in . |
| 17 | I 've turned into a Dinner Lady overnight |
| 18 | In particular , through nominalisation almost any expression can be turned into a noun phrase and used in a quasi-referential function . |
| 19 | A converted farm building , donated by Mr and Mrs Tabor , has been turned into a study room filled with photographs and displays illustrating work and life on the farm . |
| 20 | The stags ' antlers are cast each year and are best left where found as they are nibbled and eaten to recycle the chemicals and nutrients needed for growing the next set , which is probably more useful than lying in the loft at home or being turned into a table lamp . |
| 21 | The Isopata Tomb was wrecked in 1941–2 , during the Battle of Crete , by being turned into a gun emplacement by German soldiers , so drawing British shellfire upon it . |
| 22 | I was quite tough with them and , though I 've only ever smacked them once — with the stick end of a feather duster which , since reading Mommie Dearest , they 've turned into a wire coat-hanger — I would often destroy them with tongue-lashings that still twist my conscience today . |
| 23 | The staff were pared to the bone and in order to open the house to paying visitors the stable block was turned into a tea room and gift shop . |
| 24 | On the upper mezzanine floor , and close to the staff lift that serves both the back of the Queen 's bathroom and the King 's wardrobe , a spare room has been turned into a trunk room . |
| 25 | The barrage intensified : the explosions merged into a continuous crackling rumble of noise , the clifftop where Daak had stood was turned into a firework display of blinding flashes , and below it an avalanche of smoking rocks . |
| 26 | BAT — If a menu option is to load a program ( such as Phantasm on the Mega Disk ) then the file details that you input are turned into a batch file . |
| 27 | You can not expect me to allow my house to be turned into a dressmaking establishment . ’ |
| 28 | If the patient lives in a house with a downstairs toilet , a downstairs room may need to be turned into a bed-sitting room for him . |
| 29 | The balance will give a datum or basic figure which will generally be turned into a lump sum by taking a certain number of years ' purchase . |
| 30 | The whole event commenced with a football match between artists and critics on a piece of wasteland that had been turned into a football pitch . |