Example sentences of "[prep] turning a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the simple action of turning a tap , however , lies a vast network of pumping stations , treatment works , laboratories , reservoirs , pipes and people — from engineers , scientists and maintenance workers to administrative staff — all working to ensure a high quality water supply . |
| 2 | It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years . |
| 3 | I know for a fact she 's had her eye on my mother 's matinée jacket collection for years and when I once , in passing , said I wondered what happened to those old prosthetic devices in the estates of deceased senior citizens , Madge let it slip that she knew a way of turning a Zimmer frame into an attractive lamp ! ’ |
| 4 | The man was in the act of turning a page , and , in so doing , he momentarily exposed its front cover , which Harry had , till now , only seen at a distance . |
| 5 | Several colleagues remember her habit of turning a design to one side and the other and back again lest anything in it could be viewed as a tiny insect or wild animal 's eyes , thus creating horrible fear for an imaginative child . |
| 6 | The busker who plays Chariots Of Fire on a Casio organ at Bank would leave it in a trice if only he could think of some other way of turning a penny . |
| 7 | Authors had to economize in the number of illustrations they used , and readers had to get into the habit of turning a number of pages to find a relevant picture . |
| 8 | But barbed wire is a somewhat crude way of turning a guest into an inmate . |
| 9 | Team-mate Mark Jones and father Alan are a family partnership capable of turning a game while teenage batsman Jude Chaminda , of Colwyn Bay , already has a century to his credit this season , not to mention Wales ' current captain and prodigious run-maker Andy Puddle , also of Colwyn Bay . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If you like , an operator 0 corresponds to a rule for turning a vector V into another vector V ; unc is a succinct way of writing it . |
| 13 | Volunteers are signed up and the hunt gets underway — not only for sufficient food , but also equipment for turning a building into a temporary home . |
| 14 | Even for a family with a penchant for turning a drama into a crisis , this was an exceptional event . |
| 15 | Marion Harvie , a tippler , was charged in 1646 for turning a guest 's horse on the Down . |
| 16 | Cayman System Inc , Cambridge Massachusetts has updated its XGato software for turning a Apple Macintosh into a X-Window client for users of standard server release 2.0 which support colour monitors . |
| 17 | Driving or walking around the sculpture will be like turning a model in space — the apparent contradictions transforming themselves into new realities . |
| 18 | Once I reached the ski-road I thought I was ‘ home and dry ’ , until turning a bend I was confronted by a bull . |
| 19 | The United States has succeeded in turning a politically-isolated , murderous tyrant into a heroic myth before the liberation of Kuwait has even begun , while waging total war against the civilian society of Iraq , whose citizens are no more responsible for the war than you or me . |
| 20 | A reply giving a general definition of sabotage as ‘ everything from turning a tap off to blowing a pipe up ’ had been juxtaposed to questions on party strategy , he said , adding that it was ridiculous to imply that he had supported violent acts . |
| 21 | ‘ I was just getting her ready for bed , it being so late and all , ’ he said without turning a hair . |
| 22 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 23 | Carrie would have died rather than say these things but Nick would n't be embarrassed : he could say them without turning a hair ! |
| 24 | ‘ Well they take far more difficult things without turning a hair : transubstantiation for instance . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You look like an angel but you 're helping to destroy another woman without turning a hair . |
| 26 | Fen paused in his ministrations and without turning a hair stripped off his own sodden clothing . |
| 27 | Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . |
| 28 | We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . |
| 29 | Finally , on turning a corner , they entered a small area in which a large slab of stone stood beside a table covered in smaller fragments . |
| 30 | That has been done by turning a division into a wholly owned subsidiary limited company with its own board of directors and separate accounts . |