Example sentences of "have turned [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | TROUBLED Graeme Hick has turned to a shrink to help break his Test hoodoo in India this winter . |
| 2 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 3 | The middle class revolt has turned to a whimper . |
| 4 | A farmer looking to diversify has turned to a favourite crop of his French counterparts . |
| 5 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 6 | For television , what began with the appointment in March 1985 of Professor Alan Peacock to chair a committee looking at the financing of the BBC , has turned into a radical shake-up of commercial TV which , for the moment , leaves the BBC largely unscathed . |
| 7 | Another little colony of the Blessed Ones which has turned into a hell-hole is to be found at Summerhill in Suffolk , where 70 years ago , the educational idealist A. S. Neill founded his progressive academy , known as the do-as-you-like school . |
| 8 | The Body & Face Place franchise operation , for instance , has turned into a crematorium for the business ambitions of many franchisees . |
| 9 | But in the first two years of the 1990s the slump in housebuilding and property plunged the group into a hole which has turned into a chasm , as yesterday 's record £69m losses reveal . |
| 10 | Germany , once the greatest supporter of a united Europe , has turned into a nation of bewildered sceptics intent on forcing Bonn to claw back some lost sovereignty . |
| 11 | To be sure , the modern West has turned into a corrupt and greedy Scrooge , with each affluent nation ever-reluctant to share its gross national product with a starving and emaciated Third World . |
| 12 | Thus , pump-priming has turned into a bottomless pit for the Treasury , in spite of the reinvestment of large receipts from land sales . |
| 13 | But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ . |
| 14 | Film Crocodile tear-jerker Little Steven has turned into a cynical old showman . |
| 15 | In the latest number , The Body ( Penguin , £6.99 ) , the John Buchan among editors has turned into a David Cronenberg . |
| 16 | But 50-year-old Thaw has gone to extreme lengths to keep his location secret and has turned into a virtual recluse . |
| 17 | They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them . |
| 18 | The Louvre 's spokeswoman Sylvie Poujade has recently commented that everyone at the Louvre is sick and tired of the affair , which has turned into a living nightmare . |
| 19 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 20 | ‘ You think this has turned into a game , or what ? |
| 21 | Since I married again , I have had more children , but my second wife has turned into a shadow . ’ |
| 22 | I intended this to be a letter , but I see that it has turned into a political commentary . |
| 23 | Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak . |
| 24 | Clint , it seems , has turned into a mooncalf . |
| 25 | Arthur 's fling with Mrs Hewitt , played by Michael Aspel 's wife , Lizzie Power , has turned into a serious affair and the unlikely Lothario is trying to pluck up the courage to leave his wife , Pauline . |
| 26 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 27 | Bouncing around on the end of an elastic rope may not be everyone 's idea of fun , but for the 24-year-old from Staindrop , County Durham , it 's a fascination that has turned into a living . |
| 28 | The University has turned round a large trading loss in one year . |
| 29 | In the country , the underlying tide of opinion is favourable to Labour : in six months , Gallup 's ‘ fitness to govern ’ test has turned from a negative to a positive while , remarkably , two-thirds of respondents believe they would be better off under Labour . |
| 30 | One of the few bright spots at Daimler is DEBIS , the financial-services operation which has turned in a modest profit on sales of DM3.8 billion since being set up last year . |