Example sentences of "has [vb pp] into a " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Sheffield has grown into a city of about 500 000 people– many jobs have been created to provide services , especially shops and transport , and to make processed foods , beer , sweets , clothing , furniture and printing . |
| 32 | What began as a London UK-based co-ordinating body for organisation of stunt kite competitions has grown into a worldwide association known as Stunt , Team And Competitive Kiting ( or STACK ) with representatives in over 14 nations . |
| 33 | From its roots at MANsion House 9000 ( the initial emergency telephone line at St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London ) it has grown into a huge international movement with branches in 20 countries , most of which Varah , an inveterate traveller , has visited . |
| 34 | Since that time , BRAC has grown into a country-wide development organisation , remaining independent of the government , and striving to improve the quality of life for the people of Bangladesh . |
| 35 | Tony Bland — who has grown into a man in his hospital bed — might have the answer to their dilemma but there 's nobody to hear it where he is … stuck between Heaven and earth . |
| 36 | Mrs Fairfax is retired , and Adèle has grown into a charming young woman . |
| 37 | But over the last twelve months the trickle of disclosures , has grown into a river of revelations . |
| 38 | Since then , it has grown into a major production unit in the carpet industry . |
| 39 | What started as a small local meeting for enthusiasts has grown into a spectaular display . |
| 40 | The narrow emphasis on economy and efficiency which characterised the Thatcher years has broadened into a search for effectiveness and excellence as the current enthusiasm for quality in health care demonstrates . |
| 41 | It has collected into a huge ball , two or three feet across . |
| 42 | ‘ Sterling has moved into a major bear market . |
| 43 | Here the unidentified sex attacker has moved into a new phase , with an identity created for him by the media , often assisted by the police . |
| 44 | The canal has moved into a heavily industrial area for the final two locks , Perry Barr 3rd Flight , by the second of which is an old lock cottage covered with roses , defiantly holding on in its surroundings of chimneys , water towers , barbed wire , corrugated iron and half dismantled vehicles . |
| 45 | Over the past few years , part of the Left in Britain has moved into a more considered view as to the limits of elements of the British constitution , at the same time as it has become increasingly alive to the merits of elements of that same constitution — especially in so far as they bear on the issues of democracy , the sovereignty of Parliament and the people , and civil liberties . |
| 46 | Mr. Wharton is a founding partner of the multi-national High Point plc consultancy organisation , and has moved into a non-executive role as Deputy Chairman of the group in order to devote more time to his Presidential activities . |
| 47 | Des has moved into a groaning squat . |
| 48 | Sting 's set with a fascinatingly diverse band sounded as though he has moved into a different dimension from his Police days — to this reviewer at least , he was a revelation . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | For television , what began with the appointment in March 1985 of Professor Alan Peacock to chair a committee looking at the financing of the BBC , has turned into a radical shake-up of commercial TV which , for the moment , leaves the BBC largely unscathed . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The Body & Face Place franchise operation , for instance , has turned into a crematorium for the business ambitions of many franchisees . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | To be sure , the modern West has turned into a corrupt and greedy Scrooge , with each affluent nation ever-reluctant to share its gross national product with a starving and emaciated Third World . |
| 56 | Thus , pump-priming has turned into a bottomless pit for the Treasury , in spite of the reinvestment of large receipts from land sales . |
| 57 | But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ . |
| 58 | Film Crocodile tear-jerker Little Steven has turned into a cynical old showman . |
| 59 | In the latest number , The Body ( Penguin , £6.99 ) , the John Buchan among editors has turned into a David Cronenberg . |
| 60 | But 50-year-old Thaw has gone to extreme lengths to keep his location secret and has turned into a virtual recluse . |