Example sentences of "turning a [adj] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I do love is landscaping , planting trees , turning a bare patch into a park . |
| 2 | Is it not also about turning a caring service into a business ? |
| 3 | TURNING A HUMBLE PC INTO A NETWORKED BEASTIE INVOLVES MORE THAN JUST BUNGING IN AN ETHERNET CARD . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt that the process tends to alter the original character and ‘ feel ’ of a book , and only the owner can decide whether this should be accepted as part of the price for turning a blighted copy into a reasonably healthy one . |
| 5 | What was involved in this extension of structural linguistics was a profound alteration of perspective in most of the human sciences ; it was no longer a question of gathering empirically verifiable data ; of turning a positivist gaze onto a world of objects , but it meant seeing forms of expression as signs whose meanings depend on conventions , relations and systems , rather than on any inherent features . |
| 6 | Both of these alter orientation ; the latter is also sense-altering , turning a left hand into a right hand . |
| 7 | And like mirror reflection , inversion alters sense , turning a left hand into a distorted right hand . |