Example sentences of "[noun sg] to turn [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the humanities comprise a number of disciplines and subjects , of which English is only one ; the Leavisite attempt to turn it into the Queen of the Sciences never looked like succeeding . |
| 2 | Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history . |
| 3 | So what would we do to both sides of the equation what would we do to that side to turn it into opposite instead of opposite divided by a hundred and twenty . |
| 4 | Vincent strained every nerve to turn himself into a draughtsman acceptable to the illustrated papers , and the strain showed . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be a pity to turn it into firewood . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It took a lot of work to turn it into exactly what I wanted . ’ |
| 7 | I just wish he had n't felt a pressing need to turn himself into some sort of Hollywood-director clone for this production . |
| 8 | They have licenses for 10 concerts this year and they expect to inject £1 million into the landfill site to turn it into Europe 's premier outdoor entertainment venue . |
| 9 | Even after overcoming the tremendous technical difficulties of mining and smelting metals , the end result of all this endeavour was a raw material that still required the considerable skills of the metalsmith to turn it into artefacts , whether practical , artistic or both . |
| 10 | Once a strategy is agreed it is up to the copy writer and art director to turn it into an advertising idea or ideas . |
| 11 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 12 | And she is using the 20th-Century surgeon 's art to turn herself into a living version of classical beauties painted by the Old Masters , from Greek goddesses to the Mona Lisa . |
| 13 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 14 | The growing nationalism of his schemes needed only the more autarchic economic plan and the authoritarian nature of political control to turn it into fully-fledged fascism . |
| 15 | The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so . |
| 16 | Instead , gipsies will be encouraged to BUY land and apply for permission to turn it into a site . |
| 17 | The brewers to whom it belonged , having ideas , like all brewers in the 1960s , of reviving the supposed jollity of the eighteenth century , had applied for permission to turn it into a fashionable beer garden . |
| 18 | It 's being sold with planning permission to turn it into a hundred and twenty bed hotel . |
| 19 | They have permission to turn it into a pub , a small office block or a complete three storey office . |
| 20 | Vincent would soon see the struggle to turn himself into what he called a Peasant painter as his prime aim . |
| 21 | Patients fear Hartington Road Family Health Clinic may still be under threat even though councillors rejected an application to turn it into a drug detoxification centre . |
| 22 | We seem to have been steadily moving away , in spirit and in the letter , from the findings of the famous Beveridge report on Broadcasting in 1949 which concluded that ‘ minorities must have the chance , by persuasion to turn themselves into majorities ’ ( para 259 ) and should not be denied access to the media because of their size . |
| 23 | Prang your opponent with your lance to turn him into an egg . |
| 24 | A strategy set out in this format does not guarantee good advertising : that depends on the ability of the creative team , helped by the rest of agency account group , to produce a good idea ; on the ability of agency and client to recognize it as such : and the team 's combined ability to turn it into a real , working campaign . |
| 25 | A God had the power to turn himself into whoever or whatever he defeated or ate , so Apollo could now assume the form of a dolphin . |
| 26 | The commentary should not interrupt or structure the child 's play and the parent needs to resist the temptation to turn it into a teaching session . |
| 27 | In other words , women are being offered a considerable financial inducement to turn themselves into ‘ walking wombs ’ . |