Example sentences of "turned [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FACED with cuts of around 15 per cent in support from the government , Manchester University 's Institute of Science and Technology has turned successfully to industry for support . |
| 2 | The black slave population increased quickly : by the 1660s the slave population exceeded the white population in the English West Indies taken as a whole , though this chiefly reflected the transformation of Barbados , which had turned whole-heartedly to sugar , reduced the number of small farmers , and established a slave majority by 1650 . |
| 3 | In their search for sources of cheap labour farmers have turned more to female , part-time and casual workers and here the decline in numbers has been nothing like so great . |
| 4 | But if people now think everything he has touched has turned instantly to gold then Gatting was not alone in being deceived that day . |
| 5 | Under capitalism the bourgeoisie has turned increasingly to executive domination to guarantee its privileged position against the threats posed by the political egalitarianism implicit in parliamentary democracy . |
| 6 | Having turned then to page A two . |