Example sentences of "into a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Maxwell 's good judgement came in taking over the BPCC printing business and transforming it into a global communications empire .
2 In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force .
3 But she turned up safe and well at dawn when she walked into a mobile police station just yards away .
4 Meanwhile cable companies are pressing ahead to develop their own black boxes which will turn the humble television into a computerized communications centre .
5 In 1873 the Nord network purchased the Saint-Ouen Docks and turned the reception centre for water-borne goods there into a major goods station , linked to La Chapelle by rail .
6 Kielder Water , the largest man-made reservoir in Europe , surrounded by the largest man-made forest in Europe , was opened by HM The Queen in June 1982 , and has been developed into a major water-sports centre .
7 A psychology that ignores it is more likely to turn into a dogmatic police force of a discourse .
8 Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race .
9 Basically , the standard Trace Elliot GP7 preamp , running into a transistor power amp , feeds its 80 watt output into a single 10″ speaker .
10 I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar .
11 He 's managed to turn a triumph into a public relations disaster .
12 The inside of two large lorries had been converted into a special effects roadshow that allows visitors to get the sound , sight , taste , smell and feel of Guinness — and win prizes as they go .
13 Then he and Nina and the detective inspector were hurrying from the building and climbing into an unmarked police car .
14 The bewilderment of civilians herded into an armoured personnel carrier when they are ‘ relocated ’ to another village , and their homes destroyed is painfully evident .
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