Example sentences of "had been [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of recent years , the fair had been lengthened into a fortnight-long frolic called Edwardian Days , finishing two weeks before Christmas . |
| 32 | He further found that she had been lulled into a sense of false security by the hospital staff and been misinformed as to the availability and effect of alternative procedures . |
| 33 | It was during the war when the convent had been turned into a shrine for Bruckner by a man called Glasmeier . |
| 34 | The top half of the square had been turned into a huge outdoor café with trestle tables . |
| 35 | Catching the train had been turned into a furtive , subterranean act , appropriate perhaps to the new status of the railways as a minority and persecuted transport interest . |
| 36 | A downstairs room , once his study , had been turned into a bedroom for the last few months , and his bed faced the french windows leading into the garden he loved so well . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Here were a large dilapidated manor house and a church next door which had been turned into a barn . |
| 39 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 40 | It had been formed from Buffon 's old Jardin du Roi ( the royal zoological and botanical garden ) by the revolutionary government , and had been turned into a major institution for promoting the study of all the non-physical sciences . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Hanging baskets with bright geraniums decorated the higher balconies and the courtyard had been turned into a spectacular garden , tubs of potted plants adorning the old paving . |
| 43 | It was obvious that one of the fortified monasteries characteristic of Bukovina had been turned into a terrorist camp . |
| 44 | It had been turned into a temporary hospital . |
| 45 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |
| 46 | One of the large bedrooms had been turned into a nursery and it seemed to hold every conceivable toy a child could have . |
| 47 | The set-back of 1826 had been turned into a triumph . |
| 48 | Suddenly she sat upright in bed as though pulled by strings , her brain clearing as if her head had been pushed into a bucket of water . |
| 49 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |
| 50 | She wished she had been born into a different age , an age when women had been allowed to be more than a decorative possession . |
| 51 | The movies , though , had been born into a far more complex and certainly a more highly politicized era than the earlier fictional forms and many familiar themes , especially those dealing with the problems of wealth or with sudden reversals of financial fortune , would have to be treated more sensitively . |
| 52 | If they had been born into a different culture they would have believed something quite different . |
| 53 | ‘ Look , ’ said Edwin Pettigrew to Mark , ‘ our Roman Catholic friends are being whisked through all the formalities , and Mark saw that the priests had been gathered into a little group under the leadership of a jolly-looking , curly-haired Irishman with a strong brogue . |
| 54 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |
| 55 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 56 | A huge drill had been lowered into a shaft in the ground . |
| 57 | It had been backed into an opening between the trees . |
| 58 | Finally they told me where they had been and how they had been ushered into a sort of waiting room by the proprietress , who had endeavoured to make them feel at ease by offering them marrons glacés . |
| 59 | The next moment she jumped up , almost angrily , as though she had been trapped into a softness that she did not mean . |
| 60 | It certainly did not mean that the two movements had been fused into a single whole . |