Example sentences of "converted into [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The statute only vests in the agency ( with some exceptions ) the state-owned assets of such former state enterprises which have already been converted into companies ; further , such part of the equity of other companies which was vested in the state before coming into force of the statute of conversion and which are still in state ownership ; finally , assets remaining in state ownership after the liquidation of state enterprises and any other assets which are from time to time vested in the agency by separate legislation or a resolution of parliament .
2 Otherwise ideas which should instigate appraisal will continue to be made into simple tokens for easy assimilation , converted into catchphrases or vague , fashionable buzz-words in vogue , and instead of rational development , we shall continue to get change which comes only with the vagaries of fashion .
3 These mills , which sometimes have a tarred brickwork plinth with the wooden structure painted white , are more frequently converted into houses than the less enduring post mills .
4 I would also say that in fact er in in the paper that the number of deaths is converted into houses by app application of a factor of one point seven .
5 Run-down maisonettes in Southwick , Sunderland , are set to be converted into houses in a £4.5m facelift by Sunderland Council .
6 It was converted into cottages many years ago .
7 Recommending that hoop-skirts could be usefully converted into play-pens for children , Punch also pondered on whether Regent Street might have to be widened ‘ in order to accommodate the growing dimensions of the ladies ’ dresses ' .
8 James Loch , Edinburgh lawyer and Commissioner for Stafford 's Sutherland estates , reassured his master that : ‘ The adoption of the new system , by which the mountainous districts are converted into sheep pastures , even if it should unfortunately occasion the emigration of some individuals , is , upon the whole , advantageous to the nation at large . ’
9 The list of transitions produced by the first program is sorted ( numerically , by the first node number ) , and the node numbers are converted into edge numbers , by a simple nawk ( Aho et al , 1988 ) program .
10 The sugars formed by combining the hydrogen with the carbon dioxide are then converted into substances called starches ( the main components of flour and potatoes ) which can be elaborated further into the many complex materials which make up the bodies of living things .
11 Thus forests far from Bangkok are being converted into charcoal , as are those of northwest Kenya for the Nairobi market .
12 While , in the case of the loans raised from foreign sources , only part has been converted into dinar bank loans , the whole amount of the foreign exchange deposits has been converted in this way .
13 Those enquiries will have to be converted into contracts and hard cash , and much will depend on the quality of the output .
14 Both Japan and South Korea had expressed reservations about Dunkel 's draft accord on the grounds that it would oblige them to open their rice markets by imposing " tariffication " under which import quotas would be converted into tariffs [ see p. 38602 ] .
15 This provides the College budget , which , based on the local detailed plan for course provision , is converted into resources , constrained not only by finance , but also by central directives about staffing levels and grades , the use of support services etc , and the way the support services are organised and controlled .
16 The price adjustments can also be converted into yield adjustments or yield spreads to give , for example , the difference in yield between bonds with and without a particular sector characteristic .
17 There is also one of the original mullioned windows in the main block of the house , but the others were converted into sash windows in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries .
18 Unfortunately , as more and more of our little rivers and streams are converted into drains our fishing opportunities dwindle .
19 Prices of works sold outside the US are converted into US dollars at the average exchange rates during the month of sale .
20 All World Bank financial data are converted into US dollars , and this is , indeed , one serious problem with them as the bank itself acknowledges ( see , for example , World Development Report , 1988 , pp.290–1 ) .
21 Provided we can guarantee that the optimal objective function value is positive , LPI* can be converted into LPI .
22 In the other main cities of Scotland , where most city-centre residents are flat-dwellers , tenements being the predominant residential building type , several other large commercial or industrial buildings have recently been converted into dwelling complexes .
23 By the use of what will be called ‘ diagnostic frames ’ , semantic properties we wish to diagnose , but can not leave to naked intuition , are converted into properties concerning which straightforward intuitive judgements are relatively reliable .
24 The concept of a forum converted into thermae depended on the presence of floor levels associated with the former , but those identified as such are very thin mortar lines which are far from level , and they can be more reliably interpreted as layers marking stages in the construction .
25 The intelligence men also have used infinity bugs and other devices by which telephones can be converted into microphones to relay conversation in the rooms in which they are placed .
26 As the fuel is burnt-up , nuclei of uranium are converted into plutonium 239 .
27 Over the 400 million years while vegetation has existed 7,600 BTOE of energy from plants has been converted into fossil fuels ( at a rate of about 16,000 tonnes per year ) .
28 In the case of the tokens these are converted into strings of ASCII letters before being listed .
29 All Church properties such as schools , hospitals and cultural establishments , converted into state property by the communist regime , were to be returned over a period of 10 years .
30 Clive had told her the boat could sleep six quite comfortably when the settees on either side of the drop-leaf dining table were converted into sea-bunks .
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