Example sentences of "has turn into a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them . |
| 2 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ . |
| 4 | Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak . |
| 5 | The Body & Face Place franchise operation , for instance , has turned into a crematorium for the business ambitions of many franchisees . |
| 6 | Germany , once the greatest supporter of a united Europe , has turned into a nation of bewildered sceptics intent on forcing Bonn to claw back some lost sovereignty . |
| 7 | In the latest number , The Body ( Penguin , £6.99 ) , the John Buchan among editors has turned into a David Cronenberg . |
| 8 | Another little colony of the Blessed Ones which has turned into a hell-hole is to be found at Summerhill in Suffolk , where 70 years ago , the educational idealist A. S. Neill founded his progressive academy , known as the do-as-you-like school . |
| 9 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 10 | But in the first two years of the 1990s the slump in housebuilding and property plunged the group into a hole which has turned into a chasm , as yesterday 's record £69m losses reveal . |
| 11 | Clint , it seems , has turned into a mooncalf . |
| 12 | Since I married again , I have had more children , but my second wife has turned into a shadow . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You think this has turned into a game , or what ? |
| 14 | Bouncing around on the end of an elastic rope may not be everyone 's idea of fun , but for the 24-year-old from Staindrop , County Durham , it 's a fascination that has turned into a living . |
| 15 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 16 | Louisa 's confusion about sex , and whether her body is ‘ a kind of power ’ or a vulnerability , leaving her open to sexual attack , has turned into an obsession with losing weight , and wishing to lose the breasts and curviness that cause so many problems in her life . |
| 17 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |