Example sentences of "be turning [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're turning into an old frump before your time . |
| 2 | Gardeners looking for something different are turning to a new hobby … growing meat-eating plants . |
| 3 | If you or your children are turning to a vegetarian diet , Roselyn Masselin has lots of advice and recipes for the whole family . |
| 4 | ‘ The public is becoming aware of the strong likelihood of an increase in interest rates and are turning to the longer fixtures . ’ |
| 5 | With the overall decline in fertility elderly people have fewer children than in previous generations ( Phillipson and Walker , 1986 , p. 4 ) , and will be turning to a wider range of friends , relatives and neighbours for help and support . |
| 6 | Then , with a purposely studied look at Celia 's figure , she added , ‘ It is so nice to feel it will be turning into a real family home at last . |
| 7 | American politicians were turning to the academic community to provide the intellectual justification for confronting Soviet power . |
| 8 | At the hotel in Longford they broke the journey to have tea and sandwiches , and just as the winter light began to fail they were turning in the open gate under the poisonous yew tree . |
| 9 | More than anything , it 's what makes him unique : this ability to combine a hoarse moral anger at the way the world is turning with the basic confusion shared by us all . |
| 10 | ROWEN SHEPHERD , Edinburgh Academicals ' stand-off , who was back-up to Craig Chalmers on Scotland 's tour to Canada and the United States last year , is turning to a new career at fullback . |
| 11 | The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left . |
| 12 | How much more enjoyable is turning as a pure hobby ! |
| 13 | ‘ Unfortunately , the ravens ’ song is turning into a constant hymn . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry to have to say that Anthony is turning into an absolute bastard . |
| 15 | Yeah oh he 's turning into a real dog . |
| 16 | The posh end of the market was dominated by new-wave consumer journalism which was turning into a grotesque parody of the ‘ lifestyle ’ politics the Right-Ons had pioneered . |
| 17 | She was turning into a real weepie ! |
| 18 | She was turning into a different person with a different face . |
| 19 | And there was still the absurd question of protocol involved in who should occupy the Presidential Palace in Saigon which was turning into a long-running farce and one that was unlikely to be resolved in Bao Dai 's favour as long as de Lattre was High Commissioner . |
| 20 | A former pool had silted up and was turning into a miniature reed marsh . |
| 21 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 22 | The company said that , though its American operation was turning in a strong performance , the UK situation remained difficult . |