Example sentences of "transform into a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see in my mind the laughter of Ramakrishna transformed into a transcendent substance which echoes down the mystic roads . |
| 2 | The advertisers obviously wish to give the idea that their products are for blondes or light-skinned people only , or maybe that if you use their product you will suddenly be transformed into a seductive beauty with a string of young men at your fingertips . |
| 3 | But they have proved that with a good plan , persistence and a lot of hard work even a very steep slope can be transformed into a tremendous garden . |
| 4 | Nato should be transformed into a political body capable of building a new security structure for Europe . |
| 5 | From a starving stray it was transformed into a contented house cat . |
| 6 | Increasingly , during our period , the wage-relationship was transformed into a pure market-relationship , a cash nexus . |
| 7 | It was around this time that the twinkle in the planner 's eye was transformed into a 20-storey tower-block . |
| 8 | In 1989 this was seen in Liverpool where the pain of the deaths of ninety-five football supporters was transformed into a collective sense of mutual caring and support . |
| 9 | I was transformed into a raging bull , and everything turned red . |
| 10 | The best ingredients for a V8 Land Rover are a good SDI engine and flywheel Series II gearbox with overdrive 3 54 diffs and Range Rover type wheels with 205 x 16 tyres Take the brakes from the LWB 6 cylinder with servo and fit the whole lot together on a very sound chassis vehicle An ex-military Series 11 or lightweight would be a sound basis and could be transformed into a good vehicle ( see ads in LR0 for a guide to purchase price ) |
| 11 | There would be a couple of quick scenes of frenzied activity and then they would cut to a grand finale of Mickey Rooney & Co singing and dancing their way across a barn miraculously transformed into a splendid stage . |
| 12 | The typical old person is transformed into a patronized welfare recipient , only one step removed from the ‘ poor dears ’ in nursing homes : not to be listened to very seriously , if at all , ‘ not quite whole people , not people like us ’ . |
| 13 | On both sides , however , these views may merge into others which are more starkly contrasted : the idea of a reformist path to socialism may be transformed into a total preoccupation with reforming the existing society and a virtual renunciation of socialism as the ultimate goal ; the revolutionary approach may develop into a rejection of every kind of struggle for reforms as being positively inimical to the growth of a revolutionary class consciousness , the adoption of a politique du pire and the expectation of a catastrophic breakdown of capitalism from which a band of dedicated revolutionaries will lead the masses into socialism . |
| 14 | There was , however , another crucial difference between Darwin 's position and that of his contemporaries : he believed that , when members of a species were transported to a new location , they might sometimes establish themselves even if the conditions were not identical to those of the homeland , in which case the isolated population would adapt to the new environment and eventually be transformed into a distinct species . |
| 15 | A sprawling area of loft , still retaining a pleasant aroma of musty hay , had been transformed into a spacious apartment . |
| 16 | Teabags commemorate Barbara Castle 's nomination as a political candidate ; waxed and singed bras are transformed into a delicate wreath of roses for the suffragette Emily Wilding Davidson , ( the one who threw herself under the king 's horse ) . |
| 17 | MR CHRIS Patten , the Conservative Party chairman , was defeated in Bath , where his slim majority of 1,412 was transformed into a Liberal Democrat lead of almost 4,000 . |
| 18 | mouse embryo hindbrains ; it appears that the trigeminal nerve has been transformed into a facial identity . |
| 19 | The text itself is transformed into a protean tool for unfolding ideas and responding to those of others . |
| 20 | The ANC stands for a new South Africa , a South Africa in which racism shall be a thing of the past , where human dignity and equality shall prevail in the life of the country and its people , where the goals enshrined in the Freedom Charter shall be transformed into a living reality . |
| 21 | Previously green plants would be transformed into a bewildering array of colours . |
| 22 | Blake felt people gathering around him and staring at the warehouse now transformed into a burning pyre . |
| 23 | A need for food , for example , could be transformed into a specific desire ( want ) for curried chicken , or for bread-and-cheese or countless other variations of food . |
| 24 | Pigs stood for the figures that lounge in the shaded wood of Manet 's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Whistler 's mother was transformed into a black cow . |
| 25 | Pigs stood for the figures that lounge in the shaded wood of Manet 's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Whistler 's mother was transformed into a black cow . |
| 26 | Magic Night is the ugly duckling of French racing who was transformed into a golden swan when she ran second to Suave Dancer in this race last year . |
| 27 | Almost imperceptibly , however , the dialogue was now being transformed into a general conversation by the emergence of new and immensely important institutions — the Cabinet and the political parties . |
| 28 | This popular insight was transformed into a general theory of bureaucracy by William Niskanen , an economist . |
| 29 | Before the Suez débâcle in the autumn of 1956 , British governments had felt themselves able to dictate the pace at which the colonial Empire would be transformed into a cohesive Commonwealth of Nations : after Suez the imperial ethos was shattered , and our run down to middle-power status was no longer resisted . |
| 30 | Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station . |