Example sentences of "to turn to for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I was never much of a businesswoman and I had no close relatives left to turn to for help and advice . |
| 2 | Obviously if you have family living near enough , they would be the first to turn to for help of this kind . |
| 3 | While kin are a major source of support , especially when elderly people become unable to live on their own , a considerable number of the elderly have no kin to turn to for assistance : it has been estimated that about one quarter of elderly women aged 60 in the early 1970s had no surviving children ( but the proportion will drop in years to come ) ( Timaeus , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | One advantage of a naming ceremony is that the child can be given ‘ godparents ’ to turn to for support . |
| 5 | Cut off from close friends and sympathetic counsellors , and without any creed to turn to for support , he was in an ideal condition to respond to a new spiritual guide : his discovery of Schopenhauer when browsing one day in Leipzig bookshop seemed like an event preordained . |
| 6 | This ignorance is compounded by a lack of knowledge of where to turn to for advice , and a fear of direct contact with enforcing authorities . |
| 7 | The Office of Fair Trading 's Consumer Use of Credit Survey showed that the Citizens Advice Bureaux were seen as far the most obvious place to turn to for advice on problems of meeting credit payments with 69 per cent of the 2,155 respondents to the survey . |