Example sentences of "turn a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben the actor appeared beside them and started his piece , and I saw Filmer turn a bland face towards him and watched his mouth shape the unmistakable words , ‘ Go away . ’ |
| 2 | He glanced down at her , his dark eyes crinkling at the corners as he smiled in a way that made her heart turn a tiny somersault . |
| 3 | There is no obvious candidate from among the 10 already chosen , and indecisive leadership can easily turn a one-day victory into defeat . |
| 4 | And , as anywhere else , transitory lighting can turn a nondescript topography into a picture , as up on the Barkly Tableland where the narrow tarmac ribbon is frayed at the edges into blond tussocky grass as far as the eye can see . |
| 5 | He 's an accomplished chef and the culinary magic he weaves can turn a good holiday into a great one ! |
| 6 | At the opening of the session of the General People 's Congress ( parliament ) on Nov. 15 at which the new government was announced , Maj. Abdel Salem Jalloud , " Libyan number two " , appealed to US President-elect Bill Clinton to " turn a new page " in relations between Libya and the USA . |
| 7 | In one short lesson , then , Burton found that he could turn a decent offer of £10 into a ‘ fortune ’ of £30 a week . |
| 8 | There was no way in which he could turn a young man 's allegiance completely against his motherland in just three weeks . |
| 9 | How do you turn a clapped-out Lada into a Mercedes while driving down the motorway ? |
| 10 | To have no line of communication to your own kind available can turn a tolerable solitude into a state of intolerable isolation ; and yet thousands of elderly people , who live on their own and are too frail to go out , are in this position . |
| 11 | Louise turned sharply to Helen , who felt herself turn a treacherous red . |
| 12 | And try as hard as they do , residential staff can never turn a residential establishment into a home . |
| 13 | The latter has said that he could not necessarily turn a blind eye to this … especially if there were complaints from other parties ; as you are well aware the commission have the power to seek repayment . |
| 14 | If events contradict the way we see things , we may either turn a blind eye or resist hotly . |
| 15 | Whisked ‘ Andrew has always regarded her as a good mother but he can no longer turn a blind eye to her behaviour . |
| 16 | As long as I kept just over 80mph I reckoned that , even in a red Porsche , the traffic police would turn a blind eye . |
| 17 | Here is clear evidence that the judiciary could and did temper the law with common sense , and did not habitually turn a blind eye to social and economic realities . |
| 18 | So we 're parking illegally but the police actually have almo they 've said they will turn a blind eye to it if providing that we all do it sensibly and without and face like in the line of the traffic . |
| 19 | Not even the fine citizens of Ecoville who have to get their rake-off too , or they would n't turn a blind eye to it . |
| 20 | They were attached to the Royal Irish Constabulary yet had no police training , and , knowing the British Cabinet would turn a blind eye to their activities , they had quickly proved uncontrollable . |
| 21 | For example , types of worker resistance which derive from spontaneous , unofficial initiatives on the part of groups of workers often benefit from a degree of tacit legitimacy , in the sense that those in authority may ‘ turn a blind eye ’ to various workshop practices . |
| 22 | The government would turn a blind eye if the targets were foreign nationals , and particularly a despised Lebanese like Fawaz Younis . |
| 23 | I 've seen them , but I mean if , if they saw anything , I think they 'd just turn a blind eye to most of it . |
| 24 | So why not turn a blind eye to it in a world dogged by unemployment ? |
| 25 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 26 | We can turn a blind eye to some of it , but the point is always reached when he goes too far , and intervention is required , usually only in the form of American attacks by aircraft on his offences in the em , areas where he 's not supposed to penetrate . |
| 27 | The Guyanese mining community is small but powerful and Indians fear that the government will turn a blind eye to their protests . |
| 28 | We do n't turn a blind eye . |
| 29 | ‘ I know Mr Yates was n't very happy and I can sympathise , unfortunately the law was there and we could n't turn a blind eye . |
| 30 | I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever . |