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The phrase "were converted by" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a process where something was changed or transformed by a specific agent or method.
Example: "The old files were converted by the new software into a more accessible format."
Alternatives: "were transformed by" or "were changed by".
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The photoelectric signals from the high speed digital camera (an area CCD array) were converted by a 16 bit A/D converter before it transferred to the PC.
A handful were converted by Shelby Automotive to Shelby Charger specifications.
The district was still largely pagan, but the people were converted by his preaching.
Her ancestors, Baptists from Holland, were converted by Joseph Smith and followed him west, when he led the Mormons towards Utah.
"A lot of them were converted by people who came from money, but who wanted something more European and less Gilded Age," she added.
And even some skeptics who saw the hat as a clichéd waste of time were converted by its omnipresence, and early evidence of its staying power.
Early tries by Michele Rizzo and Robert Barbieri were converted by fly-half Burton, before Pelu Taele replied with a try.
His school is divided between Christian Mohawks, whose ancestors were converted by Roman Catholic missionaries, and traditional Mohawks, who celebrate their religion in the longhouse.
And yet Andean people worshiped the earth and the mountains in this spot long before they were converted by their Christian conquerors.
In India, however, it indicates that the family likely belongs to the Roman Catholic Brahmins, Hindu Brahmins who were converted by missionaries beginning in the 17th century.
The first concerns his initial bungling of the devaluation, in which bank deposits and loans were converted by diktat to pesos at different rates.
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