Example sentences of "trying to turn [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results . |
| 2 | The defence minister , General Hector Gramajo , is trying to turn the army into a professional force . |
| 3 | Mike sighed and gave up , for the moment at least , trying to turn the conversation into channels other than work . |
| 4 | But there is a certain piquancy in Kingfisher now trying to turn the tables on a company from whose clutches its escaped by a whisker only three years ago . |
| 5 | What else was plain , though , was that she had wasted her time in trying to turn the tables on Naylor Massingham by hinting that , jobless , she might set up home with Travis . |
| 6 | The Peking Daily , organ of the city 's ultra-conservative party organisation , accused the disgraced former leader of trying to turn the party into little more than a ‘ social club ’ shorn of power . |
| 7 | The FBI — which handles counterintelligence matters — is trying to turn the influx of Soviet emigres to its advantage , however , and , according to The New York Times , the agency hopes to reap a potential intelligence bonanza once double agents have been weeded out . |
| 8 | It seemed to me he was trying to turn an apple into an orange or an aeroplane into a horse . ’ |