Example sentences of "have been transformed [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mouse embryo hindbrains ; it appears that the trigeminal nerve has been transformed into a facial identity . |
| 2 | Resulting error type A means that the intended word is transformed into another English word ( a ‘ real world ’ error , whereas type B is where it has been transformed into a non-English string . |
| 3 | What was once an unsafe , ugly tarmac area , has been transformed into a safe , grass-covered playground with seesaws and slides for the 60 youngsters who go to the nursery . |
| 4 | Each of them has been transformed into a breathtaking beauty ! |
| 5 | Over the past decade , the Victorian dockland has been transformed into a multi-million pound leisure and shopping complex . |
| 6 | The Eastern Bloc has been transformed into a gigantic Enterprise Zone for western capitalists eager to reap the benefits of suppressed consumerism . |
| 7 | But because ‘ the ideological equivalency of firm and family has been transformed into a post-war simile of cultural proclivity ’ ( Fruin 1980 p.447 ) . |
| 8 | Best , for example , argued that changes had been immense : " In just five years ( the NHS ) has been transformed from a classic example of an administered public sector bureaucracy into one that increasingly is exhibiting the qualities that reflect positive , purposeful management " ( Best 1987 : 4 ) . |
| 9 | In the 12 months since Chanel Plus bought Paris St Germain , the club has been transformed from a financial cripple to a top-of-the-table French First Division outfit where crowds have doubled . |
| 10 | Since its foundation , AMES has been transformed from a small mainly middle-class group to a large popular-based organization , with an increasingly clear and more elaborate analysis of women 's specific oppression . |
| 11 | In this period of her life the fifty-year-old duchess has been transformed from a tough old battleaxe into " the presiding genius in a society of knights and troubadours " . |
| 12 | Now , the band has been transformed from an unincorporated association into a partnership . |
| 13 | Here possession has been transformed from an undesired , unsolicited illness into an ecstatic religious experience , and the most committed enthusiasts are considered to be ‘ married ’ to their spirits who ‘ ride ’ or ‘ mount ’ their human hosts . |
| 14 | The application of such an effect can change the intracellular structure of a cell that has been transformed by a cancer-causing agent , even in its latent stage . |
| 15 | A sprawling area of loft , still retaining a pleasant aroma of musty hay , had been transformed into a spacious apartment . |
| 16 | The death — house had been transformed into a smoking carpet of a few scattered embers . |
| 17 | From the edge of the village the whole valley — the fields , the growing crops , the river — had been transformed into a steaming white nether-world . |
| 18 | The National Assembly in late April had removed the public security functions of these two paramilitary formations ; in practice , the former now guarded national borders and the latter had been transformed into an internal military police . |
| 19 | The key symbol of European life , the nation , had been transformed from a dynastic culture-creating unit to a liberal democratic rationalist state . |
| 20 | The dark passageways of the tombs have been transformed into an ordered progress where the terrors of death have been subdued and banished . |