Example sentences of "[art] [noun] turn a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You just need the bike to turn a little bit and as soon as it 's spinning it turns just enough to where you can pick the bike up and then you nail it off the corner . ’ |
| 2 | The grouse turn a nice shade of red and fall from the sky but the halt in the action when the trigger is pulled is very noticeable . |
| 3 | Later city rulers , the Austrians , tore down the original front wing of the building to turn a courtyarded palace into a three-winged palace around the piazzetta . |
| 4 | They both did a lot of lobbying , which you 're not supposed to do , but the college turns a blind eye to it . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , just the small matter of the DGSE turning a blind eye to arms sales to Iranian terrorists in return for the release of our French hostages in Beirut . ’ , |
| 6 | Though mercy killing is still officially illegal , the law turns a blind eye to the 2.4 per cent of Dutch deaths which are accounted for by it . |
| 7 | When director Elliot Silverstein was told that the role of Kid Shelleen in his up-and-coming comedy western Cat Ballou was to be offered to Kirk Douglas , the director turned a whiter shade of pale . |
| 8 | The beams of light from this lighthouse turn round completely once every few second The time taken for the beam to turn a full circle is different for every lighthouse . |
| 9 | The owners turned a deaf ear to such an expensive demand . |
| 10 | Members of the Academy turned a blind eye to the black marketeers , because the Seven Planets needed food and supplies and the corporations would n't trade with independent worlds . |
| 11 | Hope caught the name and saw the chance to turn an early compliment . |
| 12 | The rules stipulate clubs must field the strongest team available , but the FA turns a blind eye as the top teams clearly do not do so . |
| 13 | There is no question of the SFA turning a blind eye to the incident … |
| 14 | ‘ It simply is not good enough for the government to turn a blind eye ; Darlington needs more police officers , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 16 | When the sugar has completely dissolved , increase the heat until the liquid turns a pale caramel . |
| 17 | Sometimes the state turns a blind eye . |
| 18 | As Tabitha was trying to get past a couple of coked-up Thrants in expensive shakos and boiled leather , one of the Palernians turned a clumsy somersault , and one of the others pushed her into the canal . |
| 19 | The man turned a grease-smeared face . |
| 20 | The city turns a seamed cheek upward , |
| 21 | The women turn a blind eye . |
| 22 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 23 | AT&T 's managers have been disappointed to find the unions turning a clean sweep of the committees into a test of the company 's good faith . |
| 24 | The Grimsby left-hander 's semi-final opponent on Wednesday will be Jimmy White , who won the last seven frames in a row to turn a 5-2 deficit into a 9-5 win over Doug Mountjoy . |
| 25 | The Grimsby left-hander 's semi-final opponent on Wednesday will be Jimmy White , who won the last seven frames in a row to turn a 5-2 deficit into a 9-5 win over Doug Mountjoy . |