Example sentences of "turn [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Allis has turned golf into a kind of harmless interview where public figures hit a few shots and chat about themselves . |
| 2 | That includes the cost of turning Loughborough into a replica of Oxford station in 1952 . |
| 3 | It turned Blackpool into a sort of electoral Convention a l'Americaine . |
| 4 | Do you think I want to see my kids turning tricks for a smear of white powder ? ’ |
| 5 | and it turned Mr into a bit of a tizzy , but erm |
| 6 | I could have lost my rudder , burnt my boats , turned turtle in a sea of heartbreak or gone down with all hands . |
| 7 | The human condition adapts in spite of itself , turning abnormality into a form of routine . |
| 8 | Rowland — with his paranoiac hatred of the music press , his fervent work ethic , his privileging of ‘ projected passion ’ over intellect — turned soul into a kind of micro-fascism . |
| 9 | She invests women 's social commonalities with a genetic yet mystical significance , and turns feminism into a kind of club , within which true believers heap praise on each other and vilify the fake women outside . |
| 10 | Building for fun Eurodisney is the spearhead of a movement that aims to turn architecture into a branch of show-business . |
| 11 | Looking over the wall corner , the crater of Cow Pot is revealed and should be left severely alone ; instead , turn south to a cluster of boulders around an iron manhole cover set in the ground . |
| 12 | The idea is that the person turns homosexual as a way of avoiding competition , conflict , or tension with a significant other . |
| 13 | HUNDREDS of Eurocrats will turn Edinburgh into a City of Gold when they EC summit circus descends this week . |