Example sentences of "[verb] turn a [noun sg] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a financial point of view , the insurance has turned a disaster into an inconvenience . |
| 2 | It risks turning a triumph into an irrelevance . |
| 3 | It does not try to turn a Scot into an Englishman , or suppose a recruit 's upbringing has no bearing on his suitability for officer training , or pretend that men and woman have identical abilities . |
| 4 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 5 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and ‘ Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 6 | It seemed to me he was trying to turn an apple into an orange or an aeroplane into a horse . ’ |
| 7 | At this year 's Chelsea Flower show , a group of prisoners walked off with a silver medal for a garden display.And at the prison itself , they 've been busy creating borders and features that have turned a jail into an oasis of colour . |