Example sentences of "[adj] to turn [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , something — many things — went wrong to turn a team who used to win virtually every match into one who could not win any . |
| 2 | It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs . |
| 3 | The depression in the art market , and a growing diffidence among gallery owners where fairs are concerned , evident in the run up to the FIAC fair in Paris , looks set to turn the Cologne fair into a predominantly home-grown event . |
| 4 | The seven leaders , who also included Banana rider Ben Luckwell , were five minutes clear of the main field and Kovar , who had started the day in 17th place 3mins 8secs down on Lillywhite , looked set to turn the race upside down . |
| 5 | It must be something serious to turn the students loose on it . |
| 6 | The majority of Hereford herds have already been changed by the import of foreign bulls and it would be impossible to turn the clock back . |
| 7 | It 's hard to turn the key to lock me door . |
| 8 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 9 | While most are displayed on benches , you 're just as likely to turn the corner on , say , a group of bathroom plants complete with bath , or shade-lovers in their very own north-facing living room . |
| 10 | It 's 3 inches shorter than a Mini , 15 inches shorter than a Metro , but it 's much more likely to turn the heads than your average suburban runabout . |
| 11 | At this point , you may find it useful to turn the activity around . |
| 12 | Most of us agree that it would be handy to turn the loft into a bedroom , or have a conservatory tacked on to an outside wall , but can you imagine what it must be like living in a church , a factory or a windmill ? |
| 13 | Even as great an artist as Michelangelo ( 1475–1564 ) was unable to turn the tide . |
| 14 | If you are unable to turn the impeller , then remove the pump for cleaning . |
| 15 | However , if the receiver continues to bleep in its working position on the ground , and no ferret has been located in the hole being dug , it can be advisable to turn the volume down to the lowest . |
| 16 | The need for money made the lord increasingly concerned to turn the fiefs of his vassals to his own financial advantage when he could . |
| 17 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 18 | Both sides have quality strikers able to turn a game . |
| 19 | As England currently struggle against Sri Lanka , Keith Fletcher moans that he ca n't understand why ‘ their spinners are able to turn the ball and ours ca n't . |
| 20 | As we saw earlier , Francis Bacon was able to turn the doctrine of the Fall to advantage : Science would help restore that dominion over nature lost to humanity through Adam 's sin . |
| 21 | Being used — as Luke had used her last night — was humiliating , and even though she had been able to turn the tables it had left a bitter after-taste . |
| 22 | Now summer had come Uncle Bean fenced in some of the waste ground for them with wire and they were able to turn the horses out , which made the work far less . |
| 23 | By means of an unprecedented policy of increasing its manufacturing efficiency through technology , and putting pressure on South Asia to export raw cotton , a trade which it had never previously engaged in , at the expense of calico , which was subject to high import duties , Britain was able to turn the tide against India , and later to flood that area with cheap cotton goods . |
| 24 | By this fantastic ideological wrench these critics are able to turn the world upside-down to prove that those films that appear ‘ … most local and concentrated are often the most universal in appeal ’ ( Philip French , The Observer , 16 October 1988 ) . |
| 25 | When he was in Vienna he had contact with the followers of Freud and Adler , and he found that even when a fact appeared to contradict their theories , they were always able to turn the fact around so that it could be taken as another example to prove their theory . |
| 26 | Most of the high-tech inward investment in Ireland is concentrated around Dublin and in Cork , and it seems to have been remiss on the part of the Industrial 7Development Agency that having enticed DEC to Galway , it was not able to turn the town into a centre of high-tech inward investment so that if DEC — or others — pulled out , there was every chance of attracting new ones . |
| 27 | You 'll often be able to turn the pension your contributions have brought into a bigger tax-free lump sum . |
| 28 | We are supposed to be able to turn the silver piece round , so that the plain side of the work is towards us , allowing the needles to lie in the grooves on the underside of the garter bar and replace the stitches on the needles . |
| 29 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton was due to turn the course of American economic policy on its head last night when he detailed proposals to the US Congress that embrace a range of new taxes and reject 12 years of the ‘ Reagan Revolution ’ . |
| 30 | The old lady was right to turn the prayer on its head . |