Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 95% completed pool is delivered to the site with all the fittings attached , ready to be positioned into a prepared excavation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The trick must be to allow the Soviet Union 's ideological humiliation not to be turned into a strategic one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If you were n't to be turned into a zombie , a walking automaton , in the absence of other night-people , incidents had to be manufactured . |
| 6 | In the mid-1950 's nuclear fission had still to be turned into a commercial power source . |
| 7 | The combination of the trailing link undercarriage and low-set wing and the ground-effect air cushion it creates enables almost every landing to be turned into a ‘ CFi 's greaser ’ . |
| 8 | If the bedroom you occupy is large enough to be turned into a comfortable bed-sitting-room , or if you have your own private sitting-room in the house , you can avoid trouble and confrontation by entertaining friends there , and that will be the end of it ; but if not , after a tactful explanation of your needs to your parent , you should get to the point of suggesting clearly that she might agree to retire to her room for a few hours sometimes when your friends come to the home ( after you have all shared a meal together first , if she wishes ) . |
| 9 | You can not expect me to allow my house to be turned into a dressmaking establishment . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 11 | When the surviving Romanovs asked for the house where the Tsar was killed to be turned into a museum , Yeltsin and his Politburo colleagues had it demolished . |
| 12 | In about eight to twelve hours the cheese will be firm enough to be turned into a deepish glass dish or large soup plate . |
| 13 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 14 | Such a re-examination is particularly necessary , if social psychology is to be turned into a historical science , as discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 15 | These runs of continuous numbers have to be turned into a single sequence , starting from 1 . |
| 16 | Evolutionism provided a parallel source of materialist concepts , but needed to be turned into a laboratory-based subject if it was to fit the new model . |
| 17 | 7. aria lived just up Eastern Avenue — let's face it , half the world lives up Eastern Avenue — in Redbridge , in one of those huge roadside vicarage-like houses which has had to be turned into a rest home for the elderly because no one else could afford to pay the rates . |
| 18 | The Kentishmen 's statement of grievances , comprising fifteen articles and five requests to the King , throws some light on this ( 7 ; 11 , pp.338–42 ) The first article stated that there were rumours that Kent was to be turned into a forest as a punishment for Suffolk 's death . |
| 19 | Carol Browner , the new director of the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , has been given cabinet rank and the agency itself is to be turned into a full cabinet-level department , a move that requires legislation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The building has been the subject of controversy ever since locals were told that it was to be turned into a clinic for twenty six convicted sex offenders . |
| 22 | Colditz Castle , the notorious Second World War prison camp , is to be turned into a luxury hotel with plans for a casino in a wing once used as living quarters by the German guards . |
| 23 | The Falklands veteran vessel , HMS Plymouth , permanently berthed at Wallasey docks , is to be turned into a floating studio theatre especially for the production . |
| 24 | THE Prince of Wales has been asked to intervene to help residents campaigning to have part of a fire damaged former school to be turned into a community centre . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Darlington Borough Council has been asked to allow a disused church building on Clifton Road to be turned into a shop . |
| 27 | A CALL has been made for an empty building near a town centre to be turned into a nursery . |
| 28 | It is a sequel to The Barber of Seville by the same author ( later to be turned into an opera by Rossini ) . |
| 29 | Mrs Barrie-Brown left Fresden to the Roman Research Trust , specifying in the codicil to her will that she wanted it to be turned into an educational centre . |
| 30 | The rules mean any child under three in the front seat of any vehicle will have to be strapped into a special restraining belt . |