Sentence examples for had been converted for from inspiring English sources
The Civic Center arena had been converted for the night into a theatre with about two thousand seats, most of which were full by the time Cosby shuffled onstage, a few minutes past eight.
— One after another, students and faculty members at Binghamton University trickled out of a classroom lab that had been converted, for convenience and tragic necessity, into a grieving room for the day.
The viewers were sitting in an old stone chapel at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center that had been converted for the night into a revival house by the Staten Island Film Society.
But the show has secured advertising from Mohegan Sun and Crystal Springs Spa and Golf Resort and last week did its first remote broadcast, from the corner of a ballroom at the Westchester Country Club, which had been converted for media use for the Buick Classic.
In 1981 — when there was concern about single-room occupancy housing for the poor being leased to visitors — the city adopted an ordinance to prohibit renting an apartment for fewer than 30 days unless it had been converted for tourist use, a lengthy process that costs about $41,000 per unit.
The Wall Street area was never a large residential district, and some properties that had been converted for residential use during the last recession were already being reclaimed for commercial use.
