Sentence examples for been turned from an from inspiring English sources

A once great British institution has been turned from an animal welfare organisation to one concerned with animal rights.

The conference stage, when different versions of a bill are reconciled, has been turned from an occasion for compromise into yet another opportunity for partisan gain.

Had Karl Friedrich Gauss not been turned from an intended career in philology by his discovery of the geometrical constructability of the regular 17-gon and related implications for number theory [18], the results of Snow's litmus test might not have been so sharp.

Under Rajeev Suri, its boss, it has been turned from a lossmaking joint venture with Germany's Siemens into a profitable, wholly owned subsidiary.

There is a respect and fondness for, and occasional bemusement about, the former Pumas hooker but there is no doubting that Australia's once notoriously fragile pack has been turned from a point of weakness to one of great strength.

Foremost School near Harrogate, now Forest Moor School, has been turned from a boarding school to a mixed day school.

The starting organic polymer is turned from an insulator to conductor material when heat-treated at over 700 °C.

The Highways Agency will be turned from an executive agency into a government-owned company, with a shake-up of its funding.

Suddenly a book is turned from an inanimate object into a community of people.

In 2012, Eben Alexander's book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, garnered headlines for his recounting of being turned from an atheist to a believer during his seven-day coma battling meningitis.

Since the 1930s, biology had been turning from a largely descriptive science into one concerned with mechanism.