Example sentences of "to turn itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lack of reflectiveness and disinclination to make policy has contributed to the failure of the Interregional Group of Deputies , an informal club of MPs , to turn itself into an effective parliamentary opposition . |
| 2 | Then , when the danger has passed , it starts to turn itself slowly back to its normal posture , beginning at the head end . |
| 3 | Eager to lessen its dependence on the highly regulated and increasingly competitive British telecoms market , BT has been struggling to turn itself into a ‘ one-stop-shop ’ provider of global telecoms services for multinationals . |
| 4 | The restoration caused no trouble to the East India Company , which was quite soon able to turn itself into a distinctly royalist body and was given a rather wider range of political powers than it had possessed before . |
| 5 | This body was to turn itself into the Labour Party in 1906 . |
| 6 | British Gas since privatization , and I think rightly so , and understandably , has had a defence policy against this government , and that defence policy is to turn itself into a multi-national energy supplier . |
| 7 | But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so . |
| 8 | A town best known for its links with the railways is trying to turn itself into a garden city . |