Example sentences of "of turning [art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But barbed wire is a somewhat crude way of turning a guest into an inmate .
2 In 1971 , the Agricultural Research Council ( ARC ) and the agriculture ministry launched a research programme to find a way of turning the problem into a resource .
3 When he sat down on his romantic bank by his crystal brook , the thought of turning the journey into a book was born : ‘ Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration . ’
4 The feeling in the backswing has been one of turning the back to the target , and hopefully with a feeling that the right hand is going to generate power through impact .
5 But there is no intention of turning the area into a clearway because it would not be possible to police the area effectively .
6 the old Anti-Slavery Society committee [ was not prompted ] to make a vigorous opposition to the grant of Twenty Millions and one parliamentary leader T. F. Buxton felt so much doubt upon the propriety of turning the attention of the country prominently to it that there was on this subject a want of cordial cooperation with those who wished to make use of it to its full extent .
7 It is simply the number of people involved that makes this impossible , as well as the difficulties of focusing their activities , in an orderly fashion , on the single objective of turning an idea into a reality .
8 From the point of view of the physiologist or psychologist another stage is necessary , that of turning an algorithm into the hardware of the brain .
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