Example sentences of "has turn [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 2 | Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak . |
| 3 | Germany , once the greatest supporter of a united Europe , has turned into a nation of bewildered sceptics intent on forcing Bonn to claw back some lost sovereignty . |
| 4 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 5 | ‘ I just hope neither of you ever has to turn to a life of crime . |