Sentence examples for be converted from a from inspiring English sources

Smoking had to be converted from a cool habit into one practiced by pariahs.

He lived in a boarding house that had be converted from a hospital, which cost him £10 a week.

The next day, according to Belinda, the operation was going to be converted from a search to a recovery.

Pope Francis calls us to be converted from a "throwaway culture" and an economy of exclusion, to solidarity and care for those who are most vulnerable.

Starting in September, the school, on Seventh Avenue, will be converted from a four-year high school to a sixth through 12th-grade school.

"If they have their way, Liu will be converted from a champion of Charter 08 into an instrument of its repression," wrote Mo Shaoping, a lawyer and fellow signatory who has worked on Liu's case, earlier this year.

It has been shown that Dorsal can be converted from an activator to a repressor by association with the co-repressor Groucho [36].

A decade ago, James Street North was converted from a one-way to a two-way street, which started nothing less than a gradual change in the downtown psyche.

Ankiel, who is being converted from a starter to a reliever, was inconsistent this spring.

Mortgage interest support was converted from a grant to a loan (saving £620m over four years).

In less than two decades Paris was converted from a medieval city to a modern one.